A Summary of Elementary Substances and Compounds Being Capable of Spontaneous Combustion

Author

Zheng, Lanfang

Author_Institution

Spontaneous Combustion of Coal Technol. Res. & Applic. of Fire Prevention, Chinese People´´ s Armed Police Force Acad., Langfang, China

fYear

2011

fDate

30-31 July 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Spontaneous combustion is a fire disaster caused by being heated or self-heating and heat accumulation of combustible substances without the effect of external fire. The fire disaster of spontaneous combustion occupies a certain proportion in various kinds of fire accidents in the country. It is low in frequency, but these fire accidents usually occur in warehouse, open storage ground, chemical plant and seagoing freighter, and thus result in huge losses. This paper analyses the mechanism of spontaneous combustion of some common combustible substances and summarizes identification methods of spontaneous combustion caused by different types of combustible substances.

Keywords

combustion; disasters; elements (chemical); fires; elementary compounds; elementary substances; fire accidents; fire disaster; heat accumulation; self heating combustible substances; spontaneous combustion; Calcium; Combustion; Fires; Friction; Heating;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation and Systems Engineering (CASE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0859-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCASE.2011.5997746

Filename

5997746