Developing alternative approaches to predicting the laminar burning speed of refrigerants using the minimum ignition energy

Measurement of laminar burning speed is complex and costly. Therefore, engineering correlations of this thermo-chemical property with other simpler-to-measure fundamental combustion properties, such as minimum ignition energy, are desired. Two different correlations between laminar burning speed and minimum ignition energy have been developed. The first correlation is of the form S-l = a minimum ignition energy(-1/3) and the second correlation of the form S-l = b minimum ignition energy(c), where a, b, and c are the fitting constants. The accuracies of these fits were close to each other.