PHI-Meter: A Fuel-Independent Instrument for Monitoring Combustion Equivalence Ratio.
PHI-Meter: A Fuel-Independent Instrument for Monitoring
Combustion Equivalence Ratio.
(141 K)
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.
Available from:
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