- Author
-
Tewarson, A.
|
Steciak, J.
- Title
- Fire Ventilation. Technical Report, October 1982.
- Coporate
- Factory Mutual Research, Norwood, MA
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
-
NBS GCR 83-423,
February 1983,
29 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- NB79NADA0014
- Keywords
-
air flow
|
combustion
|
fire tests
|
flame height
|
heat release rate
|
mass loss
|
oxygen consumption
|
ventilation
- Abstract
- A ventilation parameter is defined in terms of the availability of oxygen with respect to the stoichiometric combusiton requirements. Pagni's normalized flame height for forced air flow conditions has been used to quantify the variations in the fire properties with ventilation. For the experimental conditions used, relationshiops have been established between Pagni's normalized flame height and ventilation parameter, oxygen consumption in the combustion process, combustion efficiency, and generation efficiencies of various chemical compounds.