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The Chemistry of Fire

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610757335
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Chemistry of Fire written by Laurence Gonzales and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gonzales (Flight 232), a former National Geographic feature writer, proves himself a chronicler par excellence of nature—including of the human variety—in this excellent essay collection. The psychological nuance and vivid detail throughout will dazzle readers." —Publishers Weekly starred review, July 2020 In 1989, Laurence Gonzales was a young writer with his first book of essays, The Still Point, just published by the University of Arkansas Press. Imagine his surprise, one winter day, to receive a letter from none other than Kurt Vonnegut. “The excellence of your writing and the depth of your reporting saddened me, in a way,” Vonnegut wrote, “reminding me yet again what a tiny voice facts and reason have in this era of wrap-around, mega-decibel rock-and-roll.” Several books, many articles, and a growing list of awards later, Gonzales -- known for taking us to enthralling extremes – is still writing with excellence and depth. In this latest collection, we go from the top of Mount Washington and ”the worst weather in the world,” to 12,000 feet beneath the ocean, where a Naval Intelligence Officer discovers the Titanic using the government’s own spy equipment. We experience night assaults with the 82nd Airborne Division, the dynamiting of the 100-foot snowpack on Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, a trip to the International Space Station, the crash of an airliner to the bottom of the Everglades, and more. The University of Arkansas Press is proud to bring these stories to a new era, stories that, as with all of Gonzales’s work, “fairly sing with a voice all their own.” (Chicago Sun-Times)

Principles of Fire Protection Chemistry and Physics

Author : Raymond Friedman
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763760700
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Fire Protection Chemistry and Physics written by Raymond Friedman and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire Science (FESHE)

Fire Science

Author : Francisco Castro Rego
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030698157
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Fire Science written by Francisco Castro Rego and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides students and academics with a conceptual understanding of fire behavior and fire effects on people and ecosystems to support effective integrated fire management. Through case studies, interactive spreadsheets programmed with equations and graphics, and clear explanations, the book provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional readers with a straightforward learning path. The authors draw from years of experience in successfully teaching fundamental concepts and applications, synthesizing cutting-edge science, and applying lessons learned from fire practitioners. We discuss fire as part of environmental and human health. Our process-based, comprehensive, and quantitative approach encompasses combustion and heat transfer, and fire effects on people, plants, soils, and animals in forest, grassland, and woodland ecosystems from around the Earth. Case studies and examples link fundamental concepts to local, landscape, and global fire implications, including social-ecological systems. Globally, fire science and integrated fire management have made major strides in the last few decades. Society faces numerous fire-related challenges, including the increasing occurrence of large fires that threaten people and property, smoke that poses a health hazard, and lengthening fire seasons worldwide. Fires are useful to suppress fires, conserve wildlife and habitat, enhance livestock grazing, manage fuels, and in ecological restoration. Understanding fire science is critical to forecasting the implication of global change for fires and their effects. Increasing the positive effects of fire (fuels reduction, enhanced habitat for many plants and animals, ecosystem services increased) while reducing the negative impacts of fires (loss of human lives, smoke and carbon emissions that threaten health, etc.) is part of making fires good servants rather than bad masters.

Introduction to Physics and Chemistry of Combustion

Author : Michael A. Liberman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540787593
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Physics and Chemistry of Combustion written by Michael A. Liberman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the material covered in this book deals with the fundamentals of chemistry and physics of key processes and fundamental mechanisms for various combustion and combustion related phenomena in gaseous combustible mixture. It provides the reader with basic knowledge of burning processes and mechanisms of reaction wave propagation. The combustion of a gas mixture (flame, explosion, detonation) is necessarily accompanied by motion of the gas. The process of combustion is therefore not only a chemical phenomenon but also one of gas dynamics. The material selection focuses on the gas phase and with premixed gas combustion. Premixed gas combustion is of practical importance in engines, modern gas turbine and explosions, where the fuel and air are essentially premixed, and combustion occurs by the propagation of a front separating unburned mixture from fully burned mixture. Since premixed combustion is the most fundamental and potential for practical applications, the emphasis in the present work is be placed on regimes of premixed combustion. This text is intended for graduate students of different specialties, including physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, computer science, mathematics and astrophysics.

Fire Dynamics

Author : Gregory E. Gorbett
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780133842708
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Fire Dynamics written by Gregory E. Gorbett and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2016 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve readers' understanding of fire dynamics with real-world insight and research Written to the FESHE baccalaureate curriculum for the Fire Dynamics course, Fire Dynamics offers a comprehensive approach to fire dynamics that integrates the latest research and real experiments from the field. The Second Edition's all-new design makes locating information even easier for the reader. With twelve chapters and FESHE and NFPA references and guidelines throughout, this book is a useful resource for all fire service professionals-from the student to the fire investigator.

Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles

Author : Dennis P. Nolan
Publisher : William Andrew
ISBN 13 : 032331144X
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles written by Dennis P. Nolan and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an engineer for engineers, this book is both training manual and on-going reference, bringing together all the different facets of the complex processes that must be in place to minimize the risk to people, plant and the environment from fires, explosions, vapour releases and oil spills. Fully compliant with international regulatory requirements, relatively compact but comprehensive in its coverage, engineers, safety professionals and concerned company management will buy this book to capitalize on the author's life-long expertise. This is the only book focusing specifically on oil and gas and related chemical facilities. This new edition includes updates on management practices, lessons learned from recent incidents, and new material on chemical processes, hazards and risk reviews (e.g. CHAZOP). Latest technology on fireproofing, fire and gas detection systems and applications is also covered. An introductory chapter on the philosophy of protection principles along with fundamental background material on the properties of the chemicals concerned and their behaviours under industrial conditions, combined with a detailed section on modern risk analysis techniques makes this book essential reading for students and professionals following Industrial Safety, Chemical Process Safety and Fire Protection Engineering courses. - A practical, results-oriented manual for practicing engineers, bringing protection principles and chemistry together with modern risk analysis techniques - Specific focus on oil and gas and related chemical facilities, making it comprehensive and compact - Includes the latest best practice guidance, as well as lessons learned from recent incidents

Painting with Fire

Author : Matthew C. Hunter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639039X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Painting with Fire written by Matthew C. Hunter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century—and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volatility became central to the ambitious paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, premier portraitist and first president of Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts. Valued by some critics for changing in time (and thus, for prompting intellectual reflection on the nature of time), Reynolds’s unstable chemistry also prompted new techniques of chemical replication among Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and other leading industrialists. In turn, those replicas of chemically decaying academic paintings were rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century and claimed as origin points in the history of photography. Tracing the long arc of chemically produced and reproduced art from the 1670s through the 1860s, the book reconsiders early photography by situating it in relationship to Reynolds’s replicated paintings and the literal engines of British industry. By following the chemicals, Painting with Fire remaps familiar stories about academic painting and pictorial experiment amid the industrialization of chemical knowledge.

Michael Faraday's The Chemical History of a Candle

Author : William S Hammack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983966180
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday's The Chemical History of a Candle written by William S Hammack and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a companion to the EngineerGuy YouTube series of Michael Faraday's 19th century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This books contains the lectures, 14 illustrations, introductory guides and seven student activities with teaching guides.

Caveman Chemistry

Author : Kevin M. Dunn
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781581125665
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Caveman Chemistry written by Kevin M. Dunn and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a million years ago our ancestors learned to make fire from scratch. They crafted intricate tools from stone and brewed mind-altering elixirs from honey. Their descendants transformed clay into pottery, wool into clothing, and ashes into cleansers. In ceramic crucibles they won metal from rock, the metals lead to colored glazes and glass. Buildings of brick and mortar enshrined books of parchment and paper. Kings and queens demanded ever more colorful clothing and accessories in order to out-class clod-hoppers and call-girls. Kingdoms rose and fell by the power of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. And the demands of everyday folk for glass and paper and soap stimulated the first round of chemical industrialization. From sulfuric acid to sodium carbonate. From aniline dyes to analgesic drugs. From blasting powder to fertilizers and plastics. In a phrase, From Caveman to Chemist. Your guides on this journey are the four alchemical elements; Fire, Earth, Air and Water. These archetypical characters deliver first-hand accounts of the births of their respective technologies. The spirit of Fire, for example, was born in the first creature to cultivate the flame. This spirit passed from one person to another, from one generation to another, from one millennium to another, arriving at last in the pages of this book. The spirit of Earth taught folks to make tools of stone, the spirit of Air imparted knowledge of units and the spirit of Water began with the invention of spirits. Having traveled the world from age to age, who can say where they will find their next home? Perhaps they will find one in you.

Polymer Green Flame Retardants

Author : Constantine D. Papaspyrides
Publisher : Newnes
ISBN 13 : 0444538097
Total Pages : 943 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Polymer Green Flame Retardants written by Constantine D. Papaspyrides and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polymer Green Flame Retardants covers key issues regarding the response of polymers during fire, the mechanisms of their flame retardation, the regulations imposed on their use, and the health hazards arising from their combustion. Presenting the latest research developments, the book focuses in particular on nanocomposites, believed to be the most promising approach for producing physically superior materials with low flammability and ecological impact. The fire properties of nanocomposites of various matrixes and fillers are discussed, the toxicological characteristics of these materials are analyzed, addressing also their environmental sustainability. Edited by distinguished scientists, including an array of international industry and academia experts, this book will appeal to chemical, mechanical, environmental, material and process engineers, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines, and generally to researchers developing commercially attractive and environmentally friendly fire-proof products. - Provides recent findings on the manufacture of environmentally sustainable flame retardant polymeric materials - Covers legislation and regulations concerning flame retarded polymeric material use - Includes tables containing the fire properties of the most common polymeric materials

The Chemistry of Fire

Author : Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chemistry of Fire written by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

Author : Laurence Gonzales
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076571
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why written by Laurence Gonzales and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-10-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unique among survival books... stunning... enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading."—Penelope Purdy, Denver Post In ?Deep Survival?, Laurence Gonzalez combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art and science of survival, will change the way you see the world. Everyone has a mountain to climb. Everyone has a wilderness inside.

The Chemistry of Fire and Hazardous Materials

Author : Charles F. Turner
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Chemistry of Fire and Hazardous Materials written by Charles F. Turner and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1981 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good,No Highlights,No Markup,all pages are intact, Slight Shelfwear,may have the corners slightly dented, may have slight color changes/slightly damaged spine.

An Introduction to Fire Dynamics

Author : Dougal Drysdale
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471972907
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Fire Dynamics written by Dougal Drysdale and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1997-03-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Fire Dynamics Second Edition Dougal Drysdale University of Edinburgh, UK Fire Safety Engineering, identified in the original edition as 'a relatively new discipline', has since grown significantly in stature, as Fire Safety Engineers around the world begin to apply their skills to complex issues that defy solution by the old 'prescriptive' approach to fire safety. This second edition has the same structure as the first highly successful text, but has been updated with the latest research results. Fire processes are discussed and quantified in terms of the mechanisms of heat transfer and fluid flow. Problems addressed include: * The conditions necessary for ignition and steady burning of combustible materials to occur * How large a fire has to become before fire detectors and sprinkler heads will operate * The circumstances that can lead to flashover in a compartment This book is unique in that it identifies fire science and fire dynamics and provides the scientific background necessary for the development of fire safety engineering as a professional discipline. It is essential reading for all those involved in this wide ranging field, from Fire Prevention Officers to Consulting Engineers, whether involved in problems of fire risk assessment, fire safety design, or fire investigation. It will also be of considerable interest and value to research scientists working in building design, fire physics and chemistry.

The Chemistry Of Solid Wood

Author : Rowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788170890409
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Chemistry Of Solid Wood written by Rowell and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 15-chapter book is divided into four sections that discuss wood's structure and basic chemistry, its properties and reactivity, and its surface and degradation chemistry. The very basis of how wood is formed and the structure it assumes during this growth are given in the first section. Various wood science terms are defined and discussed thoroughly to give a clear and adequate foundation for the rest of the book. Wood water relationship important in almost any wood applications- are also discussed in this section. The subsequent three sections discuss relations and chemistry important for the beginning wood chemist to understand. These topics include wood's cell wall components, strength, interaction with preservatives, and adhesion. Wood polymer materials, wood surface activation, weathering and protection, and pyrolysis and fire retardancy are topics also embraced.

The Chemistry of the Arts

Author : Samuel Frederick Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chemistry of the Arts written by Samuel Frederick Gray and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chemistry Connections

Author : Kerry K. Karukstis
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0124001513
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Chemistry Connections written by Kerry K. Karukstis and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of contemporary examples of chemistry in action highlights the fundamental role of chemical principles in governing everyday experiences. It is presented in a question-and-answer format of topical subjects.