Heats of Combustion for Four Utah Leaf Species

Authors

Megan M. Woodhouse, Brigham Young University
Dr. Thomas Fletcher, Brigham Young University

Keywords

combustion, Utah leaf species, forest fire models

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology

Department

Chemical Engineering

Abstract

Empirical models have been developed to predict the spread of forest fire models from data about the burning plant species, terrain, and wind conditions. Over the past three years, a research group at Brigham Young University has collected data for ignition temperatures and time to ignition for eight leaf species involved in wildland fires. Four of these species are found in the Southern California chaparral, while the four other species are found in Utah. To further improve the fire models it is desirable to know the heats of combustion for each of the different leaf species. Heats of combustion can possibly be used to explain the ignition and burning characteristics of different leaf species.

Recommended Citation

Woodhouse, Megan M. and Fletcher, Dr. Thomas (2013) "Heats of Combustion for Four Utah Leaf Species," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 1754.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/1754