- Author
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Scheidweiler, A.
- Title
- Interference Simulator for Quantitative Determination of the Susceptibility of Flame Detectors to False Alarm. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NBSIR 75-956,
December 1975,
15 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Book or Conf
- AACHEN. International Conference on Automatic Fire Detection, 7th. Probleme der Automatischen Brandentdeckung. March 5-6, 1975,
173-182 p.,
1975
- Keywords
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false alarms
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fire detection
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fire detectors
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flame detectors
- Abstract
- All fire detectors are susceptible to false alarms, i.e., responding to fire-like conditions when no fire is present. Of all the known fire detectors, flame detectors are probably the most false alarm prone of any of the fire detectors, primarily because these detectors are subjected to more environmental influences resembling the detectors' operating mode than any other fire detector. In this paper, the author describes an investigation into the susceptibility of flame detectors to false alarms. The author describes a test apparatus, constructed and used by his firm, to evaluate the susceptibility of currently-available flame detectors to false alarms. In addition, the apparatus can be used to evaluate prototype flame detectors. The data developed indicates the false alarm susceptibility of each type of flame sensor. The data also provides a means of selecting a flame detector having the greatest resistance to known or predictable pseudo-fire sources.