The paper deals with monitoring retardant changes of lignocellulosic materials. Combustion of lignocellulosic materials and fire-technical characteristics are described. In assessing the retarding effect of salt NH4H2PO4, fire-technical characteristics as limiting oxygen index (LOI) were...

Top managers are aware of the necessity of open and honest informing about their environmental activities, which is preconditioned by the development, maintenance and subsequent improvement of the system of environmental informing in the enterprise. Environmental reporting is a tool for...

A significant influence to burning rate of flammable liquids has vessel wall thickness. Dependence of the burning rate of vessel wall thickness resulting from the thermal balance of a system: flammable liquid and vessel. If the thickness of the walls comes to changes, the heat transfer through...

Extinguishing foams are commonly used for extinguishing the fire of flammable liquids, whereby their insulating, choking and quenching effects are exploited. The purpose of the paper is to consider and compare the foams currently used in fire departments, regarding mainly their high...

The concept of "integrated environmental protection" takes into consideration all sectors of environment impacts (air, water, waste) like a complex, instead of a separated view on each sector. The reason of this concept is that the substances and emissions outflow from one environmental sector...