GASEOUS MIXTURE EXPLOSIVENESS - CHARACTER ISTIC PARAMETERS

The paper presents the most important notions and definitions used in research concerning the gaseous mixtures explosivity, bringing them up to the most recent international standards. The explosions initiated by local energy sources are dealt with separately from the self igniti ons. For each of them, the most usual parameters characterizing the ex plosive regime installation: and propagation, the standard or non stan dard methods of measure, the factors influencing the respective parame ters value, As well as the possible correlations between them, are spe cified.