- Author
-
Tewarson, A.
- Title
- Smoke Point Height and Fire Proterties of Materials. Technical Report.
- Coporate
- Factory Mutual Research, Norwood, MA
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
-
NIST GCR 88-555,
December 1988,
50 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- GRANT-60NANB4D-0043
- Keywords
-
smoke
|
alkanes
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alkenes
|
aromatic compounds
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carbon monoxide
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combustion
|
diffusion flames
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fire tests
|
polymethyl methacrylate
|
smoke points
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aliphatic compounds
- Abstract
- For entineering calculations in the gas phase, correlations have been established between smoke point heights and heat of combustion and yields of CO and particulates. Smoke point heights reported in the literature were modified such that all the data, including those measured by us, were consistent. Based on the data for 165 fuels from the literature and the data measured by us for 16 fuels, relationships have been suggested for the engineering calculations of heat of complete combustion, chemical heat of combustion and its convective and radiative components, and yields of CO and particulates as functions of the molecular weight for fuels with aliphatic and aromatic, saturated and unsaturated bonds betewwn C and H; C, H and O; C, H, N and C, H and S atoms.