HCN yields and fate of fuel nitrogen for materials under different combustion conditions in the ISO 19700 tube furnace and large-scale fires

Fire Safety Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1117-1128

  Purser, David ^a   Purser, Jenny ^a  

^a Hartford Environmental Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compartment fires; Fire chemistry; Hazard evaluation; Hydrogen cyanide; Modeling; Performance based design; Toxicity; Yields

Indexed keywords

COMPARTMENT FIRES; HAZARD EVALUATION; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGN; YIELDS;

COMBUSTION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYANIDES; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; FIRING (OF MATERIALS); FLAMMABILITY TESTING; FUELS; HEAT TREATING FURNACES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; TEMPERATURE;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

EID: 79951853895     PISSN: 18174299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.9-1117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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