- Author
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Technical News Bulletin (National Bureau of Standards)
- Title
- Small Models Aid Studies of Extinction of Fires Involving Liquids.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Technical News Bulletin (National Bureau of Standards),
Vol. 45,
No. 7,
120-121,
July 1961
- Keywords
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model fires
- Abstract
- Study of "Model" Fires as small as 1 1/8 in. in diameter recently has served at the Bureau to provide additional basic knowledge bearing on effectiveness of chemical powders as extinguishing agents. In these experiments the relative extinguishment effect of various dry chemical powders was measured by means of model heptane fires of 1 1/8-, 6-, and 22.8-in. daimeters. Results of the studies were discussed by T.G. Lee and A.F. Robertson, in a paper before the First International Symposium on Fire Research. The need for further basic information on behavior and extinguishment of fires involving flammable liquids arises partly from transportation and storage of such liquids for defense purposes. an although this type of information could perhaps be obtained by starting and studying full-scale fires in these liquids, the cost of such experiments would be excessive and the hazard great. Hence the need for improved techniques for studying fires with models in the laboratory.