Basic concept of the thermal explosion theory

Chapter 1 An approach to the thermal explosion theory 1.1 The basic concept of the thermal explosion theory... [Pg.1]

As stated in Preface, the basic concept of the thermal explosion theory is that whether the thermal explosion or the spontaneous ignition of a chemical of the TD type, including every gas-permeable oxidatively-heating substance, having an arbitrary shape and an arbitrary size, placed in the atmosphere under isothermal conditions, occurs or not is decided, based on the balance between the rate of heat generation in the chemical and the rate of heat transfer from the chemical to the atmosphere at the critical state for the thermal explosion which exists at the end of the early stages of the self-heating process. [Pg.1]