Non-Standard Devices for Determination of Temperature Flammability Limits

Temperature flammability limits are one of the key indicators of fire and explosion hazard and are used in the development of measures, ensuring fire and explosion safety of production facilities, in the calculation of safe temperature conditions for storage, transportation, and processing of highly flammable and combustible liquids. Along with the standard methods for determination of the temperature limits of flammability, researchers apply non-standard instruments. This work considers the devices by Eitner, Bradley-Hale, Mack, Fricke, Jones, the US Bureau of Mines, the US Naval Research Laboratory, the All-Russian Research Fire Protection Institute, Yagyu, Gordon, Kong, Hasegawa-Kashiki, Brandes, and a 20-L spherical bomb. It is demonstrated that in many cases non-standard apparatuses make it possible to determine the temperature flammability limits with acceptable accuracy.