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Scale effect of porous mesh on the inhibition mechanism of wheat dust flame

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The combustible features of wheat dust easily induce a potential hazard in its processing and application. To clearly reveal the effects of porous mesh parameters on the flame propagation of wheat dust, a vertical combustion pipeline together with the data collecting by the high-speed photography and fine thermocouple was built. Results indicate that with the increase in the mesh scale, the dust combustion and peak temperature are intensified first and then decreased with a darker luminescence. The increasing mesh number shows an inhibition effect on both peak temperature and combustion pressure, but an accelerating first and then weakening effect on flame velocity. A smaller particle size contributes to a more complete combustion, causing a higher peak temperature and flame velocity. At the particle mass of 2.5 g, the maximum value of peak temperature, flame velocity and combustion pressure were obtained during the flame propagation.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the support to this work by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018YFC0808500), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51804237), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China (No. 2018CFB207) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WUT: 2019IVB035).

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    Xue Nan, Huaming Dai, Xianfeng Chen, Qi Zhao & Xiaotong Wang

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Nan, X., Dai, H., Chen, X. et al. Scale effect of porous mesh on the inhibition mechanism of wheat dust flame. J Therm Anal Calorim 146, 2291–2302 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-021-10745-y

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