- Author
- Mphale, K. M. | Luhanga, P. V. C. | Heron, M. L.
- Title
- Microwave Attenuation in Forest Fuel Flames.
- Coporate
- Botswana Univ., P/Bag 0022, Gaborone, Botswana James Cook Univ., Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
- Journal
- Combustion and Flame, Vol. 154, No. 4, 728-739, September 2008
- Keywords
- forest fires | fuels | attenuation | plasmas (physics) | emissions | combustion | controlled burning | equations | experiments | flame temperature | thermocouples | alkali metals | alkaline metals | heat transfer
- Identifiers
- active remote sensing systems; flame conductivity; weakly ionized plasma; thermal ionisation; vegetation combustion; microwave attenuation from S-parameter measurements; natural forest fuel samples; forest fuel flame temperature measurement; alkali and alkaline metal content in the forest fuel sample; S-parameter measurements; thermocouple temperature correction; combustion behaviour of the samples in the hexagonal burner; measured phase shifts; electron density and collision frequency during flaming; alkali content in forest fuels used in the burner (ICP-AES method); electron density in forest fuel flames; collision frequency in forest fuel flames