- Author
- Babrauskas, V. | Levin, B. C. | Gann, R. G. | Paabo, M. | Harris, R. H., Jr. | Peacock, R. D. | Yusa, S.
- Title
- Toxic Potency Measurement for Fire Hazard Analysis.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NIST SP 827, December 1991, 119 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20401-0003. Telephone: 202-512-1800. Website: http://www.gpo.gov AVAILABLE FROM National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161. Telephone: 1-800-553-6847 or 703-605-6000; Fax: 703-605-6900. Website: http://www.ntis.gov
- Book or Conf
- Fire Retardant Chemicals Association. Technical and Marketing Issues Impacting the Fire Safety of Electrical, Electronic and Composite Applications. October 20-23, 1991, Fire Retardant Chemicals Assoc., Lancaster, PA, Coronado, CA, 151-155 p., 1991
- Keywords
- fire hazard analysis | toxicity test methods | building fires | computer models | fire models | death | N-gas model | radiant heating | smoke toxicity | radiant panel test method
- Abstract
- A comprehensive methodology has been developed for obtaining and using smoke toxicity data for fire hazard analysis. This description of the methodology comprises: determination that the post-flashover fire is the proper focus of smoke inhalation deaths; criteria for a useful bench-scale toxic potency (LC50) measurement method; a method which meets these criteria, especially validation against real-scale fires; a computational procedure for correcting the results for the CO levels observed in real-scale post-flashover fires; procedures for reducing the usage of animals and broadening the applicability of data by interpreting gas measurement data using the N-Gas Model; and a procedure for identifying whether a product produces smoke within the ordinary range of toxic potency for post-flashover fires.