- Author
- Babrauskas, V.
- Title
- Related Quantities. Part D. Gas Species Measurement.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- Chapter 8
- Book or Conf
- Heat Release in Fires, Elsevier Applied Science, NY, Babrauskas, V.; Grayson, S. J., Editors, 251-255 p., 1992
- Keywords
- heat release rate | fire protection engineering | smoke | soot | production rate | large scale fire tests
- Identifiers
- bench-scale tests
- Abstract
- What gas species, besides oxygen, might we wish to measure? Primarily, we are interested in either those which can serve as combustion diagnostics (e.g., H₂O, CO₂, total unburned hydrocarbons) or those which are of interest from a toxicity point of view (e.g., CO, HCl, HBR, HF, HCN, NO₂). The instrumentation for making gas species measurements was already discussed in Chapter 3 above. Here, we wish to consider how the data might be used, once obtained.