- Author
- Lyon, R. E. | Walters, R.
- Title
- Microscale Combustion Calorimeter.
- Coporate
- Federal Aviation Administration, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ Galaxy Scientific Corp., Egg Harbor Township, NJ
- Sponsor
- Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC
- Report
- DOT/FAA/AR-01/117, February 2002, 28 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM: Federal Aviation Administration William J. Hughes Technical Center's Fire Safety Section's Full-Text technical reports page (in Adobe Acrobat portable document format [PDF]): http//www.fire.tc.faa.gov/reports/report.stm AVAILABLE FROM National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161. Telephone: 1-800-553-6847 or 703-605-6000; Fax: 703-605-6900; Rush Service (Telephone Orders Only) 800-553-6847; Website: http://www.ntis.gov
- Keywords
- calorimeters | combustion | flammability | thermal analysis | fire hazard | heat release rate | oxygen consumption | heat of combustion
- Abstract
- A method for measuring the heat release rate of milligram-sized samples is described in this report. Pyrolysis-combustion flow calorimetry (PCFC) separately reproduces the solid-state and gas phase processes of flaming combustion in a nonflaming test by rapid controlled pyrolysis of the sample in an inert gas stream followed by high-temperature oxidation (combustion) of the pyrolyzate in excess oxygen. The rate at which the sample releases its heat of combustion is calculated from the oxygen consumption history. The heat of combustion is obtained from the time integral of the heat release rate.