Flammability diagram

Flammability diagram for methane

Flammability diagrams show the control of flammability in mixtures of fuel, oxygen and an inert gas, typically nitrogen. Mixtures of the three gasses are usually depicted in a triangular diagram, known as a ternary plot. Such diagrams are available in the speciality literature.[1][2][3] The same information can be depicted in a normal orthogonal diagram, showing only two substances, implicitly using the feature that the sum of all three components is 100 percent. The diagrams below only concerns one fuel; the diagrams can be generalized to mixtures of fuels.

  1. ^ for instance in Michael George Zabetakis' 1965 work, which remains one of the most widely cited sources of flammability data.
  2. ^ Mashuga 1998
  3. ^ Crowl 2003

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