SEDL / STP / STP1319-EB / STP12055S

Flammability Limits of Stainless Steel Alloys 304, 308, and 316

Werley, BL
Senior Principal Project Specialist and Senior Engineering Associate, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA

Hansel, JG
Senior Principal Project Specialist and Senior Engineering Associate, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA

Pages: 22    Published: Jan 1997

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Abstract

More than 100 specimen combustion tests suggest that stainless steel thresholds of sustained propagation depend to a great degree on diameter, tubing wall thickness, positive burn criterion, presence of flow through tubing, and alloy, and to a smaller extent on surface finish and oxygen concentration.