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Author
Mulholland, G. W. | Babrauskas, V. | Parker, W. J. | Twilley, W. H.
Title
PHI-Meter: A Fuel-Independent Instrument for Monitoring Combustion Equivalence Ratio.
Coporate
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Report
NISTIR 5499
September 1994
Distribution
Available from National Technical Information Service
Book or Conf
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual Conference on Fire Research: BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 159-160 p., 1994
Keywords
fire research | combustion | carbon monoxide | equations | instruments
Abstract
Gaseous carbon monoxide is mainly responsible for deaths due to unwanted fires. This has been a major difficulty to specialists in fire protection engineering, since quantitative methods for predicting CO yields from building fires have not been available.