Ignition phenomena of electric wires carrying short-term excess electric currents were investigated in microgravity with experiments and calculations. Microgravity experiments were conducted in 100 m and 50 m drop towers and calculations were carried out with a one dimensional cylindrical coordinate system. The experimental results showed that the limiting oxygen concentration (LOC) under a giv...

Many houses are at risk of being destroyed by wildfires. While previous studies have improved our understanding of how, when and why houses are destroyed by wildfires, little attention has been given to how these fires started. We compiled a dataset of wildfires that destroyed houses in New South Wales and Victoria and, by comparing against wildfires where no houses were destroyed, investigated...

Homogeneous charge compression ignition technology has exhibited high potential to reduce fuel consumption and NOx emissions over normal spark-ignition engines significantly. Optimized kinetic process technology is implemented to realize homogeneous charge compression ignition combustion in a port fuel injection gasoline engine. The combustion and emission characteristics are investigated with ...

An experimental study of ignition risk due to hot points in the storage of bulk materials is required to ensure fire safety. Many parameters are involved in this phenomenon: nature of the material, storage volume and temperature, type and size of hot point, etc. The aim of this study is to determine critical ignition temperatures of hot spots embedded in powder materials for different condition...

The emergence of ignition device of semiconductor bridge provides a way to resolve the conflict between low energy and high promptness, reliability and safety of initiating explosive device. But with the rapid development of arms and ammunition, the higher demand of miniaturization for structure and volume in design of initiating explosive device is put forward based on high safety, reliability...

This article investigates the ignition of low-exothermicity reactive porous solids exposed to a maintained source of heat (hotspot), without oxygen limitation. The gas flow within the solid, particularly in response to pressure gradients (Darcy’s law), is accounted for. Numerical experiments related to the ignition of low-exothermicity porous materials are presented. Gas and solid products of r...

Premixed or partially premixed compression ignition modes, such as homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI), have been a particular focus among researchers because of their potential to deliver enhanced fuel efficiency and meet exhaust emissions mandates without the addition of costly after-treatment technologies as currently required with traditional spark ignition (SI) and direct inject...

The ignition temperature of nitrogen-diluted dimethyl ether (DME) by heated air in counterflow was experimentally determined for DME concentration from 5.9% to 30%, system pressure from 1.5 to 3.0 atm, and pressure-weighted strain rate from 110 to 170 s . These experimental data were compared with two mechanisms that were, respectively, available in 1998 and 2003, with the latter being a substa...

Numerical investigations have been conducted on the effect of the internal geometry of a local contraction on the spontaneous ignition of pressurized hydrogen release through a length of tube using a 5-order WENO scheme. A mixture-averaged multi-component approach was used for accurate calculation of molecular transport. The auto-ignition and combustion chemistry were accounted for using a 21-s...

The alternative HCCI combustion mode presents a possible means for decreasing the pollution with respect to the conventional gasoline or diesel engines, while maintaining the efficiency of a diesel engine or even increasing it. This paper investigates the possibility of using gasoline in an HCCI engine and analyses the auto-ignition of gasoline in such an engine. The compression ratio that has ...