Comparison of toxic product yields of burning cables in bench and large-scale experiments

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 140-150

  Hull, T Richard ^a   Lebek, Krzysztof ^a   Pezzani, Maddalena ^b   Messa, Silvio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

^b LS Fire Laboratories   (Italy)

Author keywords

ATH; Cables; Carbon monoxide; Ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer; Fire toxicity; Polyolefin; PVC

Indexed keywords

CABLES; CARBON MONOXIDE; FIRE HAZARDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POLYOLEFINS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES;

FIRE TOXICITY; LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; STEADY STATE TUBE FURNACE (SSTF); TOXIC PRODUCTS;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

EID: 38749143693     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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