- Author
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Mulholland, G. W.
- Title
- Smoke Production and Properties.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NFPA SFPE-88,
- Book or Conf
- SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. 1st Edition. Section 1. Chapter 25,
National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA,
1/368-377 p.,
1988
- Keywords
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smoke production
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size distribution
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visibility
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smoke detection
- Abstract
- The term "smoke" is defined in this chapter as the smoke aerosol or condensed phase component of the products of combustion. This differs from the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) definition of smoke, which includes the evolved gases as well. Smoke aerosols vary widely in appearance and structure, from light colored, for droplets produced during smoldering combustion and fuel pyrolysis, to black, for solid, carbonaceous particulate or soot produced during flaming combustion. A large fraction of the radiant energy emitted from a fire results from the blackbody emission from the soot in the flame. The subject of radiant heat transfer is of such importance that it is treated in a separate chapter. This chapter focuses on smoke aerosols outside the combustion zone.