- Author
-
Deal, S.
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Beyler, C. L.
- Title
- Correlating Preflashover Room Fire Temperatures.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA
- Journal
-
Journal of Fire Protection Engineering,
Vol. 2,
No. 2,
33-48,
1990
- Keywords
-
room fires
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flashover
|
temperature
|
equations
|
databases
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vents
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flow rate
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ventilation
|
stoichiometric mixtures
- Identifiers
- McCaffrey, Quintiere, Harkleroad (MQH) method
- Abstract
- In this investigation the existing correlational methods for predicting room fire temperatures are evaluated by comparison with a database of 559 data points derived from over 250 room fire experiments. In addition, several new methods based on a simple energy balance are proposed and evaluated.