- Author
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Bomse, D.
- Title
- Diode Laser Multigas Analyzer for Advanced Detontion of Fires.
- Coporate
- Southwest Sciences, Inc., Santa Fe, NM
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
-
NIST SP 965
February 2001
- Contract
- NIST-CONTRACT-50-DKNB-7-90149
- Book or Conf
- International Conference on Automatic Fire Detection "AUBE '01", 12th. Proceedings. National Institute of Standards and Technology. March 25-28, 2001,
Gaithersburg, MD,
Beall, K.; Grosshandler, W. L.; Luck, H., Editors,
358-369 p.,
2001
- Keywords
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fire detection
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fire detection systems
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lasers
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gas detectors
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construction
- Identifiers
- characteristics of near-infrared diode lasers; gas detection using near-infrared diode lasers; construction and testing of a commercial prototype
- Abstract
- An ideal instrument for early fire detection would combine high sensitivity. rapid response, automatic self-testing and a low false alarm rate while generating information specific to the location and nature of the fire. Current fire detection strategies in large buildings call for many point sensors such as standard smoke detectors. In these systems, the false alarm rate becomes unacceptably high because the overall rate is the sum of the false alarm rate from each sensor. Even if sensors are inexpensive, routine maintenance and testing can be very costly when hundreds of detectors are in use. Some new systems use multiple point air sampling and a centralized, highly sensitive smoke detector; this approach reduces false alarm rates but is expensive to install, particularly in existing structures.