- Author
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Morikawa, T.
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Yanai, E.
- Title
- Evaluation of Toxicity of Effluent Gas in a Burning Room. (IN: Japanese - only Abstract in English)
- Journal
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Report of Fire Research Institute of Japan,
Vol. 59,
67-75,
1985
- Keywords
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room fires
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toxic gases
- Abstract
- [ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH] A fire test was performed in which burned was a compartment in a reinforced concrete building equipped with average daily gadgets. The analysis of the effluent gses sampled in the course of the fire showed that peaks of CO, HCN and acrolein concentrations were in the early stage of the fire, while that of HCl concentration in the later stage, that concentrations of HCN and acrolein were high when CO2/CO ratio was below 10, and that CO and HCl occupied major part of toxicity indexes. It was also found that the estimated lethal effect of toxicants all together was higher than that of either heat or oxygen deficiency during the major part the fire.