- Author
- Deal, S. | Beyler, C. L.
- Title
- Correlating Preflashover Room Fire Temperatures.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA
- Journal
- Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, 33-48, 1990
- Keywords
- room fires | flashover | temperature | equations | databases | vents | flow rate | ventilation | stoichiometric mixtures
- Identifiers
- McCaffrey, Quintiere, Harkleroad (MQH) method
- Abstract
- In this investigation the existing correlational methods for predicting room fire temperatures are evaluated by comparison with a database of 559 data points derived from over 250 room fire experiments. In addition, several new methods based on a simple energy balance are proposed and evaluated.