ABSTRACT Non-conventional operating conditions and fuels in diesel engines can produce longer ignition delays compared to conventional diesel combustion. If those extended delays are longer than the ...

If you examine common fire service texts there are a variety of definitions of combustion, but all describe the same phenomenon: A heat producing (exothermic) chemical reaction (oxidation) in which a ...

The chemicals that make up the match head have a relatively low ignition temperature—roughly 360 degrees F. Sliding the head across the rough surface produced a temperature at least this high. Once ...

When using electrical equipment in classified areas, such as lighting fixtures in Class I, Div. 2 locations, it’s an NEC requirement that the surface temperature of the fixture doesn’t exceed 80% of ...

Huawei Digital Power’s Commercial and Industrial Hybrid Cooling Grid Forming Energy Storage System (C&I GFM ESS) has ...

This is the first installment of a three-part series about ethanol. The series focuses on physical and chemical characteristics, manufacturing processes and hazards, and firefighter response to ...

The art of reading smoke is a process that evaluates four visible smoke attributes–volume, velocity, density, and color (VVDC)–to predict fire size, location, and future growth. Reading smoke is ...