- Author
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Litton, C. D.
- Title
- Mathematical Model for Ionization-Type Smoke Detectors and the Reduced Source Approximation.
- Coporate
- Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, PA
- Journal
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Fire Technology,
Vol. 13,
No. 4,
266-281,
November 1977
- Keywords
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mathematical models
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smoke detectors
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fire protection
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fire fighting equipment
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ionization chambers
- Identifiers
- detection systems
- Abstract
- This paper has characterized an ionization chamber's performance dominated by convective transport, provided exact solutions for different electrode geometries and a broad range of operating parameters, and developed an approximation to describe the performance of a detector in the presence of smoke particles.