- Author
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Pagni, P. J.
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Tien, C. L.
- Title
- Excess Pyrolyzate Production by Cellular Plastics Products Research Committee. Final Report. November 1, 1975-October 31, 1976.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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UCB-FRG-77-2; PRC-RP-75-1-19
1977
20 p.
- Contract
- PRC-GRANT-RP-75-1-19
- Keywords
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cellular plastics
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fire growth
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combustibility
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fire hazards
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fire spread
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flame radiation
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smoke
- Abstract
- The overall goals of this project were to quantify: 1) the net rate of production of combustible gases from cellular plastics and 2) the radiation from flames and smokes produced by cellular plastics. The initial emphasis was on analyses and a surprising, to us, amount of progress was made. A key dimensionless group, the mass consumption number, was identified as the primary parameter governing production of excess pyrolyzate and a simple gray soot emissivity was found to well approximate a more rigorous analytic formulation. The reader is referred to Sections 1 and 2 for more specific information.