- Author
- Persson, H. | Bobert, M.
- Title
- FAIRFIRE-Fire Fighting Foams: Small Scale Fire Test Procedure. Small Scale Fire Tests.
- Coporate
- Swedish National Testing and Research Inst., Boras, Sweden
- Report
- SP Report 1996:27, 1996, 74 p.
- Contract
- PROJECT-MAT1-CT94-0041-1
- Keywords
- foam extinguishing systems | fire fighting | small scale fire tests | test methods | standards | heptanes | acetone | nozzles
- Abstract
- The primary intention of the FAIRFIRE-project has been to develop a small scale fire test method giving results which correlates with the existing standard scale fire tests according to pr EN 1568 part 3 and 4. This report mainly presents the results and specific observations from about 130 small scale fire tests, 90 with heptane and 40 with acetone. In addition, test results from corresponding standard scale fire tests are presented to enable a direct comparison between the two scales. The tests were conducted in several steps, beginning with "scaling fire tests" in order to find a suitable combination of tray size and geometry, nozzle position and application rate in order to correlate the results with those achieved in standard scale. This report is focused on summarising the test data obtained and the results are summarised in tabulated form with additional comments and observations together with radiation graphs from each test. The anslysis of the correlation between the standard scale and the small scale results and corresponding classification was part of an other work package within the FAIRFIRE project and is presented by Mulligan.