@article{oai:ynu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00009394, author = {koshiba, Yusuke and Nishida, Takuya and Morita, Nobu and Otani, Hideo}, journal = {Process Safety and Environmental Protection}, month = {Nov}, note = {The explosion properties of alkane/nitrous oxide mixtures were investigated and were compared with those of the corresponding alkane/oxygen and alkane/air mixtures. The explosion properties were characterized by three parameters: the explosion limit, explosion pressure, and deflagration index. For the same alkane, the order of the lower explosion limits (LELs) of the mixtures was found to be alkane/oxygen ≈ alkane/air > alkane/nitrous oxide. In addition, the mixtures containing nitrous oxide tended to exhibit higher explosion pressures than the corresponding mixtures containing oxygen under fuel-lean conditions. The Burgess–Wheeler law was also observed to hold for the mixtures containing nitrous oxide.}, pages = {11--15}, title = {Explosion behavior of n-alkane/nitrous oxide mixtures}, volume = {98}, year = {2015} }