Related Quantities. Part D. Gas Species Measurement.
Related Quantities. Part D. Gas Species Measurement.
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Babrauskas, V.
Chapter 8;
Heat Release in Fires, Elsevier Applied Science, NY,
Babrauskas, V.; Grayson, S. J., Editor(s)(s), 251-255
pp, 1992.
Keywords:
heat release rate; fire protection engineering; smoke;
soot; production rate; large scale fire 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.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899