- Author
- Serio, M. A. | Bonanno, A. S. | Knight, K. S. | Newman, J. S.
- Title
- FT-IR Based System for Fire Detection.
- Coporate
- Advanced Fuel Research Inc., East Hartford, CT Factory Mutual Research Corp., Norwood, MA
- Sponsor
- Department of Commerce, Washington, DC National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NISTIR 5499, September 1994,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- DOC-CONTRACT-50-DKNA-4-00096
- Book or Conf
- National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual Conference on Fire Research: BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 139-140 p., 1994
- Keywords
- fire research | FT-IR | fire safety | photoelectric detectors | semiconductors
- Abstract
- A major advance in fire safety technology during the past two decades is the availability of low cost smoke detectors based on either ionization or photoelectric detectors. However, these detectors have some drawbacks because of the high frequency of false alarms and maintenance problems. Other types of detector technologies have been developed for specific gases, such as CO₂, CO, or O₂, based on metal oxide semiconductors, electrochemical sensors, or optical sensors.