- Author
- Kulkarni, A. K. | Kim, C. I.
- Title
- Heat Loss to the Interior of a Free Burning Vertical PMMA Slab and Its Influence on Heat of Pyrolysis.
- Coporate
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Contract
- NBS-GRANT-60NANB8D0849
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute/Eastern States Section. Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion. 1988 Technical Meeting. December 5-7, 1988, Clearwater Beach, FL, 70/1-4 p., 1988
- Keywords
- plastics | polymethyl methacrylate | heat loss | interiors | heat of pyrolysis | combustion | conductive heat transfer
- Abstract
- Several experimental studies have been conducted on burning of flat, vertical slabs of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) in fire and combustion research. PMMA is preferred in many wall fire studies primarily because it is an ashless burning solid, with not very sooty flames, can be available in a form that does not drip very much, and many of its properties have been thoroughly investigated. The objective of the present experimental investigation is to measure conduction heat transfer into a vertical free burning PMMA slab as a function of time and distance from the leading edge for clear and black PMMA and estimate its contribution to the known values of hp.