Xinyan Huang

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the latest fire-safety issues of EVs related to thermal runaway and fire in Li-ion batteries and provide a qualitative understanding of the fire risk and hazards associated with battery powered EVs.

TL;DR: The pyrolysis kinetics of charring materials plays an important role in understanding material combustions especially for construction materials with complex degradation chemistry as mentioned in this paper, especially for composite materials.

TL;DR: In this article, a thermally thick slab of polymethyl methacrylate was used to study the effects of the inclination angle of a fuel surface on upward flame spread and the influence of buoyancy-induced flows in modifying heat-flux profiles ahead of the flame front, which controlled flame spread, and in affecting the heat flux to the burning surface of the fuel.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of multistep heterogeneous kinetics are investigated to describe the drying and decomposition in smouldering combustion of peat, including 2, 3 or 4-step schemes, and up to 4 solid pseudo-species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the vertical downward spread of smouldering fire in a column of 30cm-tall moss peat under variable moisture content (MC) and bulk density was investigated, and the authors observed that downward spread increases as MC increases substantially at least inside the range from 10 to 70%.