A new general method for estimation of heats of combustion for hazard evaluation

✍ Scribed by William H. Seaton; B. Keith Harrison

• Book ID: 103967856
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 941 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0950-4230
• DOI: 10.1016/0950-4230(90)80025-6

✦ Synopsis

A new method is presented for estimating heats of combustion. Existing methods are restricted to estimating values for compounds composed of a small set of elements. The method presented is much more general, being capable of providing values for compounds or mixtures of compounds composed of any of 71 elements. Errors for tested organic, organometallic, or inorganic compounds were typically less than a few per cent. The new method involves expert based heuristics that are extended by thermodynamic approximation.

The method is suitable for computer implementation in applications such as prediction of incinerator operations or hazard evaluations.