- Author
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Averill, J. D.
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Peacock, R. D.
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Bukowski, R. W.
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Reneke, P. A.
- Title
- Home Smoke Alarm Project, Two-Story Home Tests.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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Report of Test FR 4017,
November 2003,
1-3 p.
- Keywords
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smoke detectors
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large scale fire tests
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experiments
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manufactured housing
- Identifiers
- activation time for non-modified smoke alarms, heat alarms and sprinklers
- Abstract
- This Report of Test documents a series of full scale tests conducted as part of research into the performance of smoke alarms. The nine experiments conducted as part of this second test series were performed in a two-story house. Another series of tests, conducted in a manufactured home, consisted of a total of twenty seven experiments with instrumentation similar to those included in this report and is reported in NIST Report of Test 4016 , also available on this web site. The data collected is presented without analysis or interpretation in order to provide access to the data by interested parties. The overall purpose of the project is to determine how different types of fire alarms can respond to threatening residential fire settings in order to permit occupant egress. Full-scale tests of current smoke, heat, and carbon monoxide alarms in actual homes with appropriate contents as fuels provide a base of data to evaluate the performance of modern residential alarm technologies. Fire scenarios (including ignition source, first item ignited, and room of fire origin) were selected based upon a statistical analysis of available fire loss data. Selected fires include a mattress fire in a bedroom, upholstered chair fire in a living area, and a cooking oil fire in a kitchen. This report documents experimental test series in the program conducted to characterize the environment in typical residential fire scenarios. Data presented include the time varying concentrations of CO, CO2, and O2, smoke obscuration, and temperature at multiple locations in the structure. Additional details of instrumentation design and location, along with uncertainty estimates for the measurements is included NIST Technical Note 1455.