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Energy and Combustion: Student Guide – UL Xplorlabs

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Energy and Combustion: Student Guide

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Classroom Investigation 03: Energy and Combustion Student Guide (pdf, 1 MB)

This student guide supports students as they interact with a video of our UL Research Institute Fire Experts in the Fire Safety Research Institute's lab to make observations and collect data on the timing, behavior, and smoke of different fuels as they burn. If the classroom has proper ventilation, the video and guides prepare students to build a calorimeter to measure the heat released from common household furnishings.

Context

Understanding the rate of ignition and combustion of common household items helps make safer spaces. Inorganic building materials have a different rate of ignition than organic or synthetic items. Furniture made of wood will be a different kind of fuel source than furniture made of foam plastic or synthetic upholstery.

Questions

  • What is heat release rate and how is it measured?

Problem to be solved

  • When fire investigators know how different fuels ignite and combust, they can better understand a burn scene and can build stronger claims based on a knowledge of types of evidence and patterns of fuels.

Be sure to explore the video showing this classroom investigation and related teacher guide.

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