Smouldering wildfires propagate slowly through surface and subsurface organic layers of
the forest ground and severely affect the soil, producing physical, chemical and biological …

Close inspection of accidental fires in large, open-plan compartments reveals that they do
not burn simultaneously throughout the whole enclosure. Instead, these fires tend to move …

Smouldering is the slow, low-temperature, flameless form of combustion of a condensed fuel.
It poses safety and environmental hazards and allows novel technological application but …

The Lithium-ion battery (LIB) is an important technology for the present and future of energy
storage, transport, and consumer electronics. However, many LIB types display a tendency …

Smoldering combustion is the slow, low temperature, flameless burning of porous fuels and
is the most persistent type of combustion phenomena. It is especially common in porous …

Globally, the amount of carbon stored in peats exceeds that stored in vegetation and is similar
in size to the current atmospheric carbon pool. Fire is a threat to many peat-rich biomes …

This chapter argues that smouldering combustion leads to megafires as measured in terms
of the total organic material consumed. The chapter reviews the current knowledge on …

Smouldering peat fires, the largest fires on Earth in terms of fuel consumption, are reported
in six continents and are responsible for regional haze episodes. Haze is the large-scale …

As the permafrost region warms, its large organic carbon pool will be increasingly vulnerable
to decomposition, combustion, and hydrologic export. Models predict that some portion of …

In this work, the kinetic parameters governing the thermal and oxidative degradation of flexible
polyurethane foam are determined using thermogravimetric data and a genetic algorithm. …