Reaction to fire tests. Determination of fire parameters of materials, products and assemblies using an intermediate scale heat release calorimeter (ICAL)

2000 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 620-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuju Ma ◽  
Jiachen Chen ◽  
Hui Zhang

1984 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 380-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.J. Parker

The calculation of heat release rate by oxygen consumption is based on the assumption that all materials release approximately the same amount of heat per unit mass of oxygen consumed. This technique is now being employed to determine the heat release rate of materials in various heat release rate cal orimeters. Other uses include the heat release rate of assemblies in the fire en durance furnaces and the total heat release rate in room fire tests. These dif ferent applications lead to different experimental procedures which require dif ferent formulas. The experimental choices or constraints include open or closed systems, paramagnetic or high temperature oxygen analyzers, CO2 analyzers or CO2 traps, and the use of a gas burner whose heat release rate must be deducted from the total. Various assumptions about CO levels in the exhaust duct and vitiation and humidity in the incoming air are made. General formulas for the heat release rate by oxygen consumption are developed in this paper from which the formulas for specific applications can easily be derived.


2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Ecker ◽  
Klaus Dieter Pohl ◽  
Andreas Wieneke ◽  
Friedrich Wilhelm Wittbecker

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