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Author
Notarianni, K. A.
Title
Five Small Flaming Fire Tests in a Simulated Hospital Patient Room Protected by Automatic Fire Sprinklers.
Coporate
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Sponsor
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Report
FR 3982, October 31, 1990, 23 p.
Distribution
Available from National Technical Information Service
Keywords
hospitals | fire tests | sprinklers | room burns | simulation | smoke detectors | sprinkler response | instruments | crib fires | fire spread | quick response sprinklers | oxygen concentration | sidewall sprinkler systems
Identifiers
privacy curtain; shielded fire
Abstract
A series of five tests was conducted to measure temperatures, radiation, and carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and oxygen concentrations resulting from small flaming wood crib fires within a simulated NIH hospital patient room protected with automatic fire sprinklers. Time to activation of quick and standard response sprinklers and ionization and photoelectric smoke detectors at several locations in the room simulating multiple options for protection of the space were measured. The test series addressed the loaction of sprinkler heads in the hospital patient room, demonstrated the effect of privacy curtains around the beds, the effect of a shielded fire, and the effect of sidewall sprinklers.