EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF PEAT IGNITION AND COMBUSTION

A. M. Grishin, A. N. Golovanov,
Ya. V. Sukov, and Yu. I. Preis

UDC 533.6.011

Under laboratory conditions, ignition and combustion of 
peat specimens with a different botanical composition that were taken 
from different deposits have been studied. The effect of density, 
moisture content, and ash content on the minimum energy of ignition 
and rate of combustion of peat has been determined.

Tomsk State University, 36, Lenin Ave., Tomsk, 634050, 
Russia; email: fire@mail.tsu.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 137-142, May-June, 2006. Original 
article submitted February 9, 2005.