- Author
- Purser, D. A.
- Title
- Physiological Effects of Combustion Products.
- Coporate
- Hartford Environmental Research, UK
- Book or Conf
- Hazards of Combustion Products: Toxicity, Opacity, Corrosivity and Heat Release. Proceedings. November 10-11, 2008, Interscience Communications, London, England, London, England, Babruaskas, V.; Gann, R. G.; Grayson, S., Editors, 97-122 p., 2008
- Keywords
- combustion products | fire hazards | toxicity | corrosivity | heat release | physiological effects | occupants | smoke | toxic gases | exposure | survival | life safety | hazard analysis | test methods | algorithms | irritants | people movement | walking speed | optical density | smoke density | survivors | tenability limite | incapacitation | death | equations | hydrogen chloride | asphyxiant gases | carbon monoxide | injuries | heat exposure | burns (injuries) | human beings | toxic hazards
- Identifiers
- Available Safe Egress Time (ASET); Required Safe Egress Time (RSET); acute survival hazards during fires; basic requirements for life safety hazard analysis; methods of fire hazard analysis based upon physiological algorithms; effects of exposure to non-irritant and irritant smoke; walking speed against smoke optical density; predicting time to incapacitation by irriants, asphyxiant gasea and/or heat; Fractional Effective Dose (FED); setting tenability limits for painful sensory irritant effects; Mouse RD50 model; irritants effects of exposure to hydrogen chloride; thresholds and variations in sensitivity in humans; post-exposure lung inflammation and survival