- Author
- Su, J. Z.
- Title
- Canadian Research Has Implications for Smoke Detectors in Homes.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Journal
- FIRE.GOV, 3-3, Winter 2003
- Report
- NRCC-43973
- Distribution
- FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Research in Construction, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Telephone (613) 993-2607, Fax: (613) 952-7673, Email: [email protected] [FULL DOCUMENT IN PDF]: http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/fulltext/nrcc43973/
- Keywords
- smoke detectors | experiments | fire tests
- Identifiers
- dead air space
- Abstract
- Working with the Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada, researchers in the Fire Risk Management Program of the National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Research in Construction have demonstrated through full-scale experiments that combined ionization-photoelectric smoke detectors, can be, in some cases, more effective than ionization or photoelectric detectors used alone in homes. This research was part of an ongoing effort in the fire protection community to maximize the benefit of current smoke detector technologies to improve residential fire safety. Two houses in the now deserted town of Kemano, British Columbia, served as test sites for the experiments: a 900-square-foot one-story house and a 1400-square-foot two-story house. In both dwellings, the researchers installed groupings of three types of detectors-photoelectric, ionization and combined photoelectric-ionization to determine the response time to various fires set in the structures.