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Predicting concentrations of hydrogen cyanide in full scale enclosure fires

Predicting concentrations of hydrogen cyanide in full scale enclosure fires

Wang, Zhaozhi ORCID: 0000-0002-8986-0554, Jia, Fuchen ORCID: 0000-0003-1850-7961 and Galea, Edwin R. ORCID: 0000-0002-0001-6665 (2010) Predicting concentrations of hydrogen cyanide in full scale enclosure fires. Interflam 2010: 12th International Fire Science & Engineering Conference. Interscience Communications, Greenwich, London, UK, pp. 1769-1774. ISBN 978-0-9541216-6-2 (volume 2) 978-0-9556548-7-9 (set)

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Abstract

In this paper, a local equivalence ratio based toxicity model has been extended to include the calculation of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) by applying a generalised relationship between the normalised yields of carbon monoxide (CO) and HCN. Two full-scale nylon fires have been simulated.
The concentrations of toxic gases are calculated with the extended toxicity model while the release of heat due to combustion is modelled by the eddy dissipation combustion model. The predicted concentrations of CO2 are in good agreement with the measured data and the predicted concentrations of CO and HCN essentially follow the measured trends.

Item Type: Book Section
Additional Information: This paper forms part of the published proceedings from INTERFLAM 2010 the 12th International Fire Science and Engineering Conference, held 5 - 7 July 2010, at the East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Uncontrolled Keywords: full scale enclosure fires, hdrogen cyanide
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics
T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Pre-2014 Departments: School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis > Fire Safety Engineering Group
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Department of Mathematical Sciences
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Last Modified: 03 Mar 2021 16:50
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/3991

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