- Author
- Grosshandler, W. L.
- Title
- Towards the Development of a Universal Fire Emulator-Detector Evaluator.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 29, 113-127, 1997
- Book or Conf
- University of Duisburg. International Conference on Automatic Fire Detection "AUBE '95", 10th. April 4-6, 1995, Duisburg, Germany, Luck, H., Editors, 368-380 p., ['1995', '1997']
- Keywords
- fire detection | heat release rate | large scale fire tests | fluid dynamics | standards | fire tests
- Identifiers
- fire emulator/detector evaluator (FE/DE); fire signatures; fuel loss
- Abstract
- Past measurements are examined of CO, CO₂, H₂O, H₂, O₂, smoke and temperature produced in standard fires of the UL and EN type. Additional measurements just above the heat release zone are suggested to get a more complete footprint of each standard fire, and the concept of a universal fire emulator/detector evaluator (FE/DE) is introduced. The objective of the emulator is to produce more well controlled environments that eliminate the unavoidable run-to-run variations associated with full-scale tests. Numerical fluid dynamic computations are recommended to insert the fire source into the space being protected as a guide for detector placement and to predict system performance under realistic conditions.