- Author
- Babrauskas, V.
- Title
- Effective Measurement Techniques for Heat, Smoke, and Toxic Fire Gases.
- Coporate
- National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, 13-26, 1991
- Book or Conf
- QMC Fire and Materials Centre in association with Fire Research Station. Fire: Control the Heat...Reduce the Hazard. International Conference. October 24-25, 1988, London, England, 4/1-10 p., ['1988', '1991']
- Keywords
- fire hazards | fire gases | toxic gases | predictive models | smoke | toxicity
- Abstract
- The latest techniques which have been developed for the measurement of heat, smoke, and toxic gas emissions from fires are reviewed. The current objective of minimizing apparatus dependence of the data is emphasized. Forms of data and their units are outlined. Differences between data obtained in large-scale and in bench-scale tests are discussed, and areas where further research is needed are indicated. Today the fire protection engineer has in his tool kit vastly more tools than were available only a few years ago. Yet, it is also clear, these do not represent an ultimate set. Fast and significant leaps forward are already visible in the area of quantitative methods for fire protection engineering. The focus of this Conference is measurement of heat, smoke, and toxic fire gases. In this presentation, an attempt will be made to summarize, from an engineering point of view, the new tools available in each of these three inter-related areas. Data units will be discussed and the concept of apparatus-independent data will, especially, be emphasized.