- Author
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Mulholland, G. W.
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Babrauskas, V.
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Parker, W. J.
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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
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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
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fire research
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combustion
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carbon monoxide
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equations
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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.