- Author
- Stockstad, D. S. | Lory, E. C.
- Title
- Construction of a Fine Fuel Ignition Furnace.
- Coporate
- Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, UT
- Report
- Research Note INT-122, October 1970, 7 p.
- Keywords
- furnaces | construction | forestry | ignition | plants (botany) | heat flux | heat transfer
- Identifiers
- forest fuels
- Abstract
- A furnace capable of producing either spontaneous or pilot ignition and measuring temperatures at which these ignitions occur has been designed and constructed for use in ignition studies of fine forest fuels. One-inch-long sections of conifer needles, grass stems and leaves, and rotten wood represent the type of fuels capable of being ignited and tested in this furnace. Time-temperature relations for the ignition process of various fuels may be determined by using a three-channel plotter on which thermocouple traces for temperatures of the ignition chamber and fuel sample are recorded.