- Author
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Tewarson, A.
- Title
- Quantification of Fire Properties of Fuels and Interaction With Fire Environments. Technical Report.
- Coporate
- Factory Mutual Research, Norwood, MA
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NBS GCR 82-395,
June 1982,
37 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161. Telephone: 1-800-553-6847 or 703-605-6000; Fax: 703-605-6900; Rush Service (Telephone Orders Only) 800-553-6847; Website: http://www.ntis.gov
- Contract
- NB79NADA0014
- Keywords
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fire spread
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fires
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fuels
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heat of combustion
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heat release rate
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plastics
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ventilation
- Abstract
- Concepts for the quantification of fire properties of fuels and interaction with fire environments are presented. It is shown that certain fire properties, i.e., actual heat of combustion and yield of fire products, are independent of fire size as long as the fire remains overventilated. Small-scale measurements of asymptotic values of generation rates of fuel vapors and fire products, per unit area of fuel, obtained by oxygen enrichment, are shown to agree reasonably well with the generation rates measured directly on a large scale in ambient air.