- Author
- Domalski, E. S. | Churney, K. L. | Reilly, M. L. | Kirklin, D. R. | Ledford, A. E. | Thornton, D. D.
- Title
- Twenty Fire Gram Capacity Combustion Flow Calorimeter. Interim Report. October 1, l979-September 1980.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBSIR 82-2457, March 1982, 48 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- EA-77-A-01-6010
- Keywords
- calorimeters
- Abstract
- A new calorimeter is being developed at the National Bureau of Standards to determine the enthalpies of combution of kilogram-size samples of municipal solid waste (MSW) in flowing oxygen near atmospheric pressure. The organic fraction of 25 gram pellets of highly processed MSW has been burned in pure oxygen to CO2 and H2O in a small prototype flow calorimeter. The carbon content of the ash and the uncertainty in the amount of CO in the combustion products contribute calorimetric errors of 0.1 percent or less to the enthalpy of combustion.