Non-dimensional heat of gasification measurements in the intermediate scale rate of heat release apparatus

✍ Scribed by Joe Urbas

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 396 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0308-0501
• DOI: 10.1002/fam.810170304

✦ Synopsis

Wall-fire spread models require heat of gasification or nondimensional heat of gasification to calculate mass loss rate or rate of heat release from the wall material. An intermediate scale rate of heat release apparatus was used to measure all the parameters needed to calculate non-dimensional heat of gasification for wood materials. An infra-red pyrometer was used to measure surface temperature. The results of measurements on six wood materials indicate that nondimensional heat of gasification, if plotted against mass remaining, does not change significantly with external heat flux, but is material dependent.