- Author
- Parker, W. J. | Lee, B. T.
- Title
- Small-Scale Enclosure for Characterizing the Fire Buildup Potential of a Room.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Stanford Research Institute. Experimental Methods in Fire Research. Proceedings of the Meeting to Honor Clay Preston Butler on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. May 9-10, 1974, Stanford Reserch Inst., Menlo Park, CA, Kanury, A. M. and Alvares, N. J., Editors, 43-72 p., 1974
- Keywords
- room fires | enclosures | fire growth | fire tests | flashover | scale models | thermal radiation | oxygen concentration
- Abstract
- A 0.76 by 0.76 m (30 bY 30 inch) enclosure with a 0.61 m (24 inch) high ceiling was used to model some fires in a 3 x 3 x 2.4 meter (10 x 10 x 8 foot) burnout room. Temperatures, oxygen concentrations, air velocity, and conductive and radiant heat fluxes were measured. The highest average air temperature in the upper part of the room was taken as a measure of the fire buildup potential of the room. Upper air temperatures attained in the model were similar in most cases to those in the full-scale compartment. From energy balance considerations this air temperature was related to the oxygen depletion in the room and was shown to correlate will with the oxygen content of the combustion gas and air exhausting from the modela nd full-scale room fires.