- Author
- Purser, D. A.
- Title
- Application of Exposure Concentration and Dose to Evalution of the Effects of Irritants as Components of Fire Hazard.
- Coporate
- Hartford Environmental Research, UK
- Report
- Volume 2
- Book or Conf
- Interflam 2007. (Interflam '07). International Interflam Conference, 11th Proceedings. Volume 2. September 3-5, 2007, London, England, 1033-1046 p., 2007
- Keywords
- fire hazards | exposure | evaluation | irritants | smoke | tenability limits | animals respiratory systems | thermal decomposition | mass loss | survival | damage | health hazards
- Identifiers
- effects of irritant fire effluents; acute sensory irritation; rouse respiratory Rate depression (RD50) test; Available Safe Egress Time (ASET); Required Safe Egress Time (RSET); sensory and pulmonary irritancy of combustion products; irritants effects of exposure to hydrogen chloride; relationship between exposure concentration, exposure time and dose for sensory irritancy; mechanisms of sensory irritancy and effects of mixtures; mass loss concentrations of thermal decomposition products predicted to be painfully irritant (mouse RD50 g/m3); effect of irritants in smoke is on walking speed; walking speed in non-irritant smoke (m/s); walking speed in irritant smoke (m/s); smoke optical density; survive exposure to asphyxiant gases or burns at the fire scene who are then threatened by lung damage; exposure concentrations and exposure doses for incapacitation and lethal lung damage