Measurement of Electrical Conductivity for a Biomass Fire

A controlled fire burner was constructed where various natural vegetation species could be used as fuel. The burner was equipped with thermocouples to measure fuel surface temperature and used as a cavity for microwaves with a laboratory quality 2-port vector network analyzer to determine electrical...

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Autores principales: Mphale, Kgakgamatso, Heron, Mal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19325812
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms9081416
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description A controlled fire burner was constructed where various natural vegetation species could be used as fuel. The burner was equipped with thermocouples to measure fuel surface temperature and used as a cavity for microwaves with a laboratory quality 2-port vector network analyzer to determine electrical conductivity from S-parameters. Electrical conductivity for vegetation material flames is important for numerical prediction of flashover in high voltage power transmission faults research. Vegetation fires that burn under high voltage transmission lines reduce flashover voltage by increasing air electrical conductivity and temperature. Analyzer determined electrical conductivity ranged from 0.0058 - 0.0079 mho/m for a fire with a maximum temperature of 1240 K.
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spelling pubmed-26357442009-03-25 Measurement of Electrical Conductivity for a Biomass Fire Mphale, Kgakgamatso Heron, Mal Int J Mol Sci Article A controlled fire burner was constructed where various natural vegetation species could be used as fuel. The burner was equipped with thermocouples to measure fuel surface temperature and used as a cavity for microwaves with a laboratory quality 2-port vector network analyzer to determine electrical conductivity from S-parameters. Electrical conductivity for vegetation material flames is important for numerical prediction of flashover in high voltage power transmission faults research. Vegetation fires that burn under high voltage transmission lines reduce flashover voltage by increasing air electrical conductivity and temperature. Analyzer determined electrical conductivity ranged from 0.0058 - 0.0079 mho/m for a fire with a maximum temperature of 1240 K. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2008-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2635744/ /pubmed/19325812 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms9081416 Text en © 2008 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635744/
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