Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6974373 | Process Safety and Environmental Protection | 2015 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The explosion properties of alkane/nitrous oxide mixtures were investigated and were compared with those of the corresponding alkane/oxygen and alkane/air mixtures. The explosion properties were characterized by three parameters: the explosion limit, explosion pressure, and deflagration index. For the same alkane, the order of the lower explosion limits (LELs) of the mixtures was found to be alkane/oxygen â alkane/air > alkane/nitrous oxide. In addition, the mixtures containing nitrous oxide tended to exhibit higher explosion pressures than the corresponding mixtures containing oxygen under fuel-lean conditions. The Burgess-Wheeler law was also observed to hold for the mixtures containing nitrous oxide.
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Authors
Yusuke Koshiba, Takuya Nishida, Nobu Morita, Hideo Ohtani,