- Author
- Holmstedt, G. S. | Kaiser, I.
- Title
- Brandivardbaddar. (Abstract in English)
- Coporate
- National Testing Inst., Boras, Sweden
- Report
- SP-RAPP 1983:04, 1983, 61 p.
- Keywords
- beds (furniture) | calorimeters | fire gases | room fires | ignition
- Identifiers
- closed well-stirred room
- Abstract
- A large-scale room calorimeter has been used to test the fire hazard of different institutional beds. The fire gases leaving the room were collected in a hood and continuously analyzed of contents of O2, CO2, CO, NOx and CnH2n. Cigarettes, metenamine tablets and small wooden cribs were used as ignition sources. Ignition behavior was studied and starting from the measured concentrations of species and mass flow the rate of heat release and the rate of production of smoke and toxic gases could be derived.