- Author
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Babrauskas, V.
- Title
- Related Quantities. Part D. Gas Species Measurement.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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Chapter 8,
- Book or Conf
- Heat Release in Fires,
Elsevier Applied Science, NY,
Babrauskas, V.; Grayson, S. J., Editors,
251-255 p.,
1992
- Keywords
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heat release rate
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fire protection engineering
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smoke
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soot
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production rate
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large scale fire tests
- Identifiers
- bench-scale tests
- Abstract
- What gas species, besides oxygen, might we wish to measure? Primarily, we are interested in either those which can serve as combustion diagnostics (e.g., H₂O, CO₂, total unburned hydrocarbons) or those which are of interest from a toxicity point of view (e.g., CO, HCl, HBR, HF, HCN, NO₂). The instrumentation for making gas species measurements was already discussed in Chapter 3 above. Here, we wish to consider how the data might be used, once obtained.