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Rate of heat release measurements with the Swedish box test
Author(s) -
Holmstedt Göran
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
fire and materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-1018
pISSN - 0308-0501
DOI - 10.1002/fam.810080106
Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , exhaust gas , oxygen , thermal , materials science , temperature measurement , nuclear engineering , environmental science , composite material , waste management , forensic engineering , thermodynamics , chemistry , engineering , computer science , physics , organic chemistry , database
The Swedisn box apparatus was modified to include an oxygen analysis of the exhaust gases to be compared with the conventional exhaust gas temperature measurement. A slow‐burning material shows good correlation between the temperature measurement and the rate of heat release. A fast‐burning material, however, consumes all the available oxygen, and the temperature measurement becomes a measure of only the thermal properties of the material.