Wang, Zhaozhi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8986-0554, Jia, Fuchen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1850-7961 and Galea, Edwin R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0001-6665 (2012) Assessing levels of hydrogen cyanide in fire experiments using a generalized correlation. Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, 22 (3). pp. 227-240. ISSN 1042-3915 (Print), 1532-172X (Online) (doi:10.1177/1042391512450108)

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Abstract

A generalized relationship between the normalized yields of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide for nitrogen-containing materials has recently been derived. This correlation is used in the current study to analyze experimentally derived hydrogen cyanide data from three sets of fire tests. For a reduced-scale compartment fire test, the yields of hydrogen cyanide with varied equivalence ratios and the transient hydrogen cyanide concentrations are estimated; for a series of room–corridor sofa fire tests, the extremely high hydrogen cyanide level observed is demonstrated to be a realistic result and a hydrogen cyanide yield value of 0.047 g/g is suggested for this sofa in post-flashover fires for fire safety assessments; and finally, for a series of smoke chamber tests with polyurethane, possible causes for the failure to detect hydrogen cyanide are suggested.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	[1] Published online before print: June 8 2012.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	fire toxicity, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, yield, flashover
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Related URLs:	Publisher Organisation Organisation
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2021 17:56
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/9261

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