- Author
- Arvidson, M.
- Title
- Small Scale Comparison Between the FMRC and the EUR Standard Plastic Commodities.
- Coporate
- SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Boras, Sweden
- Report
- SP Report 1999:29; Brandforsk Project 735-941, 1999, 29 p.
- Distribution
- For more information contact: SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Box 857, SE-501 15 BORAS, Sweden. Telephone: +46 33 16 50 00, Fax: +46 33 13 55 02, Email: info@sp.se Website: http://www.sp.se/eng/default.htm
- Keywords
- plastics | small scale fire tests | sprinkler systems | polystyrene | thermal radiation
- Identifiers
- suppressibility tests; heat radiation measurements; test arrangement suppressibility tests; instrumentation panel
- Abstract
- This report describes small scale comparison tests between the FMRC and the EUR Standard Plastic commodity cartons. Both commodities consists of polystyrene plastic cups without lids, placed upside down in compartmented cartons. Two series of tests were conducted under as equal conditions as the outside geometrical differences of the cardboard cartons allowed. After the first series of suppressibility tests it can be concluded that the EUR commodity is more difficult to suppress compared to the FMRC commodity. However, the second series of heat radiation measurements shows that this difference can not be attributed to any difference in heat radiated from the fires.