- Author
- Walton, W. D. | Thomas, P. H.
- Title
- Estimating Temperatures in Compartment Fires.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NFPA HFPE08
- Book or Conf
- SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. 4th Edition. Section 3. Chapter 6, DiNenno, P. J.; Drysdale, D.; Beyler, C. L.; Walton, W. D.; Custer, R. L. P.; Hall, J. R., Jr.; Watts, J. M., Jr., Editors, 3/204-221 p., 2008
- Keywords
- fire protection | fire protection engineering | handbooks | compartment fires | temperature | fire models | ignition | fire growth | flashover | room fires | equations | conservation | mass flow | floors | heat balance | fire load | wood | cribs | combustion | steady state | computation | burning rate
- Identifiers
- fire stages; compartment fire phenomena; calculation of compartment fire temperatures; energy generated by the fire; conservation of mass; conservation of energy; methods for predicting preflashover compartment fire temperatures; methods for predicting postflashover compartment fire temperatures; wall steady-state losses; wall transient losses; opening height effect; Method of Law; Swedish Method
- Abstract
- The ability to predict temperature developed in compartment fires is of great significance to the fire protection professional. There are many uses for a knowledge of compartment fire temperatures, including the prediction of (1) the onset of hazardous conditions, (2) property and structural damage, (3) changes in burning rate, (4) ignition of objects, and (5) the onset of flashover. The fundamental principles underlying compartment fires are presented in Section 3, Chapter 5, "Compartment Fire Modeling." This chapter gives a number of simplified solution techniques.