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Prediction of Heat of Combustion of Polymer Materials Using Combustion Characteristics  

Ha Dong-Myeong (세명대학교 안전공학과)
Lee Su-Kyung (서울산업대학교 안전공학과)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.19, no.3, 2005 , pp. 70-75 More about this Journal
Abstract
The heat of combustion of polymer materials is an important fire characteristics, which can be used with other fire parameter to predict the potential fire hazard in the polymer handling process. The aim of this study is to predict the heat of combustion for polymers which used in the building interior materials. By using the literature data and multiple regression, the new equation for predicting the heat of combustion of polymers is proposed. The A.A.p.E.(average absolute percent error) and the A.A.D.(average absolute deviation) of the reported and the calculated heat of combustion by means of the oxygen consumption calorimeter and the stoichiometric coefficient were 4.46 and 1.09, and the correlation coefficient was 0.972. The values calculated by the proposed equations were in good agreement with the literature data. Therefore, it is expected that this proposed equations will support the use of the research for other polymer materials.
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