- Author
- Parker, W. J. | Filipczak, R.
- Title
- Modeling the Heat Release Rate of Aircraft Cabin Panels in the Cone and OSU Calorimeters.
- Coporate
- Fire Technology Consultant, Germantown, MD Federal Aviation Administration, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ
- Journal
- Fire and Materials, Vol. 19, No. 2, 55-59, March/April 1995
- Sponsor
- Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
- Keywords
- aircraft compartments | heat release rate | calorimeters | computer models | temperature profiles | mass loss | radiative heat transfer | convective heat transfer | equations | thermophysical properties | temperature measurements
- Identifiers
- calculation of surface and interior temperatures; internal radiative heat transfer; convective heat transfer at the surface; energy equations; mass loss rate and heat release rate calculations; heat release rate calculations for OSU calorimeter
- Abstract
- A computer model was developed to calculate the heat release rate of aircraft cabin panels in the OSU calorimeter based on their thermophysical, thermochemical and geometric properties. It calculates the temperature profile through the panel as a function of time and uses the measured kinetic constants of the individual materials to deduce the mass loss rate. The mass loss rate is multiplied by the heat of combustion of the volatiles to obtain the heat release rate which would be measured in the Cone calorimeter. This heat release rate is used in an energy balance at the surface of the specimen to calculate the rise in enthalpy of the flue gases in the OSU calorimeter and thus the specimen's heat release rate in that apparatus. The calculated heat release rates are in reasonable agreement with measurements in the Cone and OSU calorimeters.