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Thermal analyzing flammability of fluffy seed hair of poplar and plane trees

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Fluffy seed hairs own very fast burning speed, which covers all corners of the city in spring and is easy to cause urban fire. In order to study the combustibility of typical seed hairs, seed hairs from poplar and plane trees were performed using thermogravimetric analysis and microscale cone calorimetry tests, which were then connected with Pearson correlation algorithm. Results were found that burning behavior of the seed hairs from poplar and plane tree is quite similar and was also akin to many other biomasses that were used as solid fuels in different parts of the world (e.g., wheat straw and rice husk). Owing to the danger of fire resulting from the dispersion of these seed hairs in mainly urban and also somewhat in wild environment, they should be collected and used as solid fuels, thus simultaneously adding value to a waste stream and making them innocuous for the environment.

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Xu, J. Thermal analyzing flammability of fluffy seed hair of poplar and plane trees. J Therm Anal Calorim 148, 4075–4085 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-023-11967-y

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