Thermochemical properties of flame gases from fine wildland fuels / Frank A. Albini.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Albini, F. A. (Frank A.), author.

Contributor:

Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Ogden, Utah), issuing body.

United States. Forest Service, sponsoring body.

Series:

Research paper INT ; 243.

Research paper INT ; 243

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forest fires--Research.

Stoichiometry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (42 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Ogden, Utah : Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, [1980]

Summary:

"Describes a theoretical model for calculating thermochemical properties of the gaseous fuel that burns in the free flame at the edge of a spreading fire in fine forest fuels. Predicted properties are the heat of combustion, stoichiometric air/fuel mass ratio, mass-averaged temperature, and mass fraction of unburned fuel in the gas mixture emitted from the flame-producing zone. These variables depend upon readily determined intrinsic properties of the fuel, the fuel moisture content, fuel particle surface/volume ratio, particle mass density, and fuel loading. Numerical examples are given for several fuel-types, exploring the sensitivity to moisture content, char fraction formed (an inherent property of the fuel that can be modified by fire retardants), and an energy-leakage fraction related to fuelbed opacity. All the equations are given in appendixes."

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on June 7, 2013).

"March 1980."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-29).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Other Format:

Print version: Albini, F.A. (Frank A.). Thermochemical properties of flame gases from fine wildland fuels

OCLC:

681761883

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