- Author
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Saito, F.
- Title
- U.S.A.-Canada-Japan Cooperative Research on Evaluation of Combustion Gas Toxicity (Over View).
- Coporate
- Center for Better Living, Japan
- Report
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NBSIR 85-3118,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. 7th Joint Panel Meeting of the UJNR Panel on Fire Research and Safety. October 24-28, 1983,
Gaithersburg, MD,
413-418 p.,
['1983', '1985']
- Keywords
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combustion gases
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combustion toxicology
- Abstract
- The development of toxic evaluation method for combustion products from materials upon building-fire is an important problem to the estimation of toxic potential on actual fire and to the development of a new material. Toxic evaluation method for combustion gas includes testing procedure with testing apparatus and heating means, and physiological evaluation method for products released during combustion. Sorts and quantities of combustion products from materials depend on the burning condition, i.e. the aspect of fire. Therefore, in order to develop more reasonable testing method, it is necessary to clarify combustion behavior of materials in a full scale compartment as well as the component and quantities of combustion products, and to reproduce them by a laboratory scale experiment. The toxicity of combustion products should depend on a physiologically reasonable evaluation method.