Pyrolysis Gases Measured by Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry from Fires in a Wind Tunnel and at Ft. Jackson, SC

Pyrolytic and flaming combustion gases were sampled in a series of experimental fires in a small wind tunnel at the U.S. Forest Service laboratory in Riverside, CA and in 30 m x 30 m plots in longleaf and slash pine forests located at Ft. Jackson, SC. Wind tunnel fires burned 2.4 m long fuel beds composed of longleaf pine needles and combinations of small fetterbush, sparkleberry, blueberry and inkberry nursery-produced plants under no wind and 1 m/s wind. Gases were captured in canisters and consist of light hydrocarbons up to C7, CO, CO2, H2 and light aromatics. 88 wind tunnel fires and 5 field fires yielded a total of 195 canisters. The objective of the experiment was to compare pyrolysis products produced by traditional methods (see "Pyrolysis Gases Produced by Fast and Slow Pyrolysis of Foliage Samples from 15 Plants Common to the Southeastern US Coastal Plain" data product) with products produced using a fire as the heat source (this data product and "Pyrolysis gases determined by FTIR spectroscopy in a wind tunnel and at Ft. Jackson, SC" data product.

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award Fundamental measurements of modeling of prescribed fire behavior in the naturally heterogenous fuels of southern pine forests.
creators David R. Weise, david.weise@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9671-7203 | Wei Min Hao, whao@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5604-8762 | Stephen Baker, stephen.baker1@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station | Emily Lincoln, emily.lincoln@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station | Andrew T. Hudak, andrew.hudak@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7480-1458 | Benjamin C. Bright, benjamin.c.bright@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8363-0803 | Marko Princevac, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3512-7760 | Amir_Hessam Aminfar, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0749-685X | Roger D. Ottmar, roger.ottmar@usda.gov, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4385-4052 | Joseph J. O'Brien, joseph.j.obrien@usda.gov, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3446-6063 | Akira Kato, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University | Jonathan L. Batchelor, jonbatch@uw.equ, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8700-3076 | Molly M. Herzog, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories | Joey Chong, joey.chong@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2667-6056 | Bonni M. Corcoran, bonni.corcoran@usda.gov, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station | Gloria M. Burke, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station
doi doi:10.60594/W48G6B
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funder U. S. Department of Defense (DoD), Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100013316
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maintainor David R. Weise, david.weise@usda.gov
method Eighty-eight fuel beds 2.4 m long and approximately 0.8. m wide composed of longleaf pine needles and various combinations of fetterbush, sparkleberry, blueberry and inkberry plants were burned in an open-topped low-speed wind tunnel with environmental controls under 0 and 1 m s-1 wind conditions November 8-18, 2017, February 23-March 1, 2018 and October 30 - November 2, 2018. Fuel beds were constructed by uniformly distributing 1000 g (wet weight) of needles over the entire fuel bed in sections and then placing the plants in predetermined locations. A complete randomized design was used, but it was modified as we sought to maximize the production of pyrolyzates by increasing the number of plants in a fuel bed. Details of the methods can be found in the articles and reports contained in the Documentation.zip file as well as the project final report available through the SERDP website and DTIC (Weise, David R., Thomas H. Fletcher, Timothy J. Johnson, WeiMin Hao, Mark A. Dietenberger, Marko Princevac, Bret W. Butler, et al. 2022. “Fundamental Measurements and Modeling of Prescribed Fire Behavior in the Naturally Heterogeneous Fuel Beds of Southern Pine Forests.” Final Report RC-2640. Albany, CA: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1180629.pdf")
project Funding Award RC-2640: Fundamental measurements of modeling of prescribed fire behavior in the naturally heterogenous fuels of southern pine forests.
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