Research Progress and Comparison of Methods for Testing Self Ignition Materials

Fires due to spontaneous combustion make up a very small portion of total fires, but they result in great loss and it's hard to conduct a fire cause identification. This paper is mainly about the research progress of self ignition materials, introduces the methods studying on self ignition materials, including thermal analysis, mathematical formulation and other two new methods: Accelerating Rate Calorimeter and Spontaneous Ignition Tester.