- Author
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Walker, I. S.
- Title
- Bushfire Combustion Studies: Fuel Pyrolysis.
- Coporate
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Melbourne, Australia
- Keywords
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brush fires
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combustion
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fuel pyrolysis
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forest fires
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forestry
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pyrolysis temperature
- Abstract
- This investigation forms the initial stages of research into the chemical aspects of combustion in bushfires, which has as its final aims (1) an elucidation of the combustion process at a molecular level and (2) the mechanisms by which this combustion process can be chemically inhibited. In this work the pyrolysis of the materials constituting a typical eucalpyt forest litter bed has been studied under conditions simulating those that exist during a bushfire.