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Short communication: Estimating the minimum ignition energy of hybrid mixtures
Author(s) -
Britton Laurence G.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.680170208
Subject(s) - ignition system , generality , propane , simple (philosophy) , energy (signal processing) , series (stratigraphy) , mathematics , computer science , thermodynamics , statistics , physics , psychology , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , psychotherapist , biology
A simple analytical method is presented for estimating the hybrid minimum ignition energy (HMIE) of dust–gas mixtures, based on the assumed generality of Bartknecht's well‐known test data for mixtures of propane with a series of dusts in air. Since the HMIE equation requires input data which might be unavailable, the use of conservative default methods is discussed.