BFRL ICON PHI-Meter: A Fuel-Independent Instrument for Monitoring Combustion Equivalence Ratio.


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Mulholland, G. W.; Babrauskas, V.; Parker, W. J.; Twilley, W. H.

NISTIR 5499; September 1994.

National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts. October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 159-160 pp, 1994.

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National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB95-104964

Keywords:

fire research; combustion; carbon monoxide; equations; instruments

Abstract:

Gaseous carbon monoxide is mainly responsible for deaths due to unwanted fires. This has been a major difficulty to specialists in fire protection engineering, since quantitative methods for predicting CO yields from building fires have not been available.



Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899