Chemometric methods for studying the effects of chemicals on cellulose pyrolysis by thermogravimetry–mass spectrometry

Comparative study of the thermal behavior of wood and bark of young shoots obtained from an energy plantation

“…Principal component analysis (PCA) has been applied to help the interpretation of the mass spectrometric data. With the help of this method, we are able to distinguish between similar and different objects [34][35][36][37] in our case samples. Namely, the similar objects lie close to one another in the principal components space, while the distance between considerably different samples is large.…”

Complexity and origin of the smoke components as measured near the flame-front of a real forest fire incident: A case study

“…The effect of forest fire retardants on the pyrolysis products of forest fuels, such as cellulose and pine needles, has been studied in lab scale [38][39][40][41]. Retardants can be used for prevention (ground means) and for aerial suppression of fires, and are usually mixtures of ammonium phosphate and ammonium sulfate.…”

Experimental study of the emissivity of flames resulting from the combustion of forest fuels

“…generated during the combustion of forest fuels that had previously been treated with long-term retardants [10,11]. As noted by King [12], high concentrations of water can have a great influence on flame emissivity.…”