The combustion of cellulose under conditions of rapid heating

✍ Scribed by C.F. Cullis; M.M. Hirschler; R.P. Townsend; V. Visanuvimol

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 349 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(83)90167-0

✦ Synopsis

Studies were made of the combustion of cellulose using high heating rates and at temperatures up to 823K with varying concentrations of oxygen in the atmosphere. Under these conditions, which may be relevant to those which exist during cigarette smoking, the gaseous products are the same as those formed in the absence of oxygen and the carbon oxides are again the major components. If cbemicai control is assumed, the order of reaction in cellulose for the formation of each product gradually decreases with increasing oxygen concentration, tending towards a value of unity. Although the activation parameters (activation energy and preexponentiai factor) decrease when oxygen is introduced, these values are independent of oxygen concentration between 5 and 21 voi%.