- Author
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Janssens, M. L.
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Parker, W. J.
- Title
- Oxygen Consumption Calorimetry.
- Coporate
- National Forest Products Assoc., Washington, DC
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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Chapter 3,
- Book or Conf
- Heat Release in Fires,
Elsevier Applied Science, NY,
Babrauskas, V.; Grayson, S. J., Editors,
31-59 p.,
1992
- Keywords
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heat release rate
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fire protection engineering
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oxygen consumption
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calorimetry
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flow rate
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equations
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combustion
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instruments
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organic liquids
- Abstract
- In 1917, Thornton showed that for a large number of organic liquids and gases, a more or less constant net amount of heat is released per unit mass of oxygen consumed for complete combustion. Huggett found this to also be true for organic solids and obtained an average value for this constant of 13.1 MJkg⁻¹ of O₂. This value may be used for practical applications and is accurate with very few exceptions to within ±5%.