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JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 499-505Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2009.03.006
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LFL; UFL; LOC; Flammable; Gas; Mixture
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This paper presents data on the limiting (minimum) oxygen concentration (LOC), in the presence of added N(2), of methane (CH(4)), propane (C(3)H(8)), ethylene (C(2)H(4)), carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrogen (H(2)), and some of their binary mixtures. It also addresses the issue of the flammable concentration (flammability) limits of these pure gases in air. The Study is based on spark ignited explosions in large, spherical laboratory vessels (120-L and 20-L) using a 7% pressure-rise criterion for explosion propagation. The results of the study are compared with the older values which used long flammability tubes with a diameter >= 5 cm together with visual evidence of substantial upward propagation. They are also compared to results reported recently using a 12-L spherical flask with a visual flame propagation criterion Finally, they are compared to results reported in Europe using more modest flammability criteria and smaller chambers The findings reported here show excellent agreement between the 120-L and 12-L results. good agreement with the 20-L results, and reasonable agreement with the earlier flammability tube values for the lower flammability limits. They disagree, however, with the more conservative European values. These results and those from the 12-L experiments also feature lower LOCs than are given by traditional flammability tubes A model for the LOCs of such fuel mixtures based on the Le Chatcher mixture rule for lower flammable limits is seen to reasonably fit the observed results on binary mixtures and call accommodate more complex mMixtures as well. One such set of ternary mixtures containing CH(4) and 1.1 CO.H(2) is well fitted by the model Published by Elsevier Ltd
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