Abstract:
The effect of diluents of various chemical nature [halogenated hydrocarbons, inhibitors developed at the Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Problems of Materials Science (ISMAN), superheated water aerosol] on the flammability limits of hydrogen-methane mixtures in air was investigated experimentally. It was found that ISMAN inhibitors, which are aliphatic hydrocarbons, reduce the upper flammability limit of hydrogen even more effectively than the well-known inhibitor 1,2-dibromotetrafluoroethane. Flammability curves for hydrogen and methane in mixtures with the above-mentioned diluents were obtained. The results are interpreted qualitatively by considering various kinetic regimes of nonisothermal chain branching reactions.
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