Talk:Flammability limit
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · refresh) I have read the explosive limit and the flammability limit pages. They are clearly related, although not the same thing. The most logical way I see to merge the two pages would be to make a section in the explosive limits page called flammability limits, and copy the cursory definition from here to there. As a result, I see no information based reason to merge the pages. By the way, the pressure unit on this page should probably be millibar. There has been a lot of study on explosive levels at 1 bar, since that is atmospheric pressue. Any thoughts? 65.127.91.226 13:17, 17 August 2007 (UTC) |
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Flammable limits and explosive limits are the same thing. See D. A. Crowl and J. F. Louvar, Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall: NY, 2002.
Also, flammable limits are defined only for air. They are normally at 1 atm and 25oC.
LeChateliers rule is only an approximation. It works reasonably for the LFL and less well at the UFL.
The mole fraction in LeChateliers rule is a mole fraction calculated with other non-flammable gases, such as oxygen and nitrogen, excluded. --Engineerche (talk) 00:59, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
