Experimental Study of the Optical Properties of Soot and Smoke.
Experimental Study of the Optical Properties of Soot and
Smoke.
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Choi, M. Y.; Mulholland, G. W.; Hamins, A.; Kashiwagi,
T.
NISTIR 5499; September 1994.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 123-124 pp, 1994.
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB95-104964
Keywords:
fire research; soot; smoke; optical properties
Abstract:
The accurate measurement of flame-generated particlates
is a problem of current interest to researchers in the
fire and combustion community. Within the flame, the
soot concentration measurement is central to the study
of soot growth and for radiant transport analysis. In
the post-flame region of large fires, particulate
measurements are important in developing computational
modeling of smoke plume movement, in the detection
fires, in assessing the reduction in visibility arising
from a fire within a building and for estimating the
health and environmental impacts.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899