The application of mathematics to fuel problems

✍ Scribed by Hinchley, J. W.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1931
• Weight: 387 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000502705

✦ Synopsis

77, 94) are informative (Fig. ). Tliesc dingrams shorn which mist,ures with air of metlinnc, liydrogen and cnrboii monoxide, nnd of the three gases in equal pToportions, nrc inflniiimnblc in tlicmselves, which nre capable of forming esplosivc mixtures when added to nir, nnd which nrc incapnble of doing so. Tlie replncemcnt of tlic nitrogen of the air by carbon dioside or wntcr-mpour ~o u l d in-crease the nren represen ting tlie !net-named inistures.

No referciicc lins been mnde to the many resenrclies on gnseous csplosions in closed vessels tliat linve been cnrried out within recent years. Tlie npplicntion of the results of such resenrclies to 1)rd)lCmS of the intcrnnl combust.ion cnginc forins n snbjcct i n itsclf.