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Engineering Laboratory

Fire Research Division

Tools and Instruments

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Cone Calorimeter

Cone Calorimeter

In the late 1970s and early 1980s the fire community was pushing for reliable bench-scale tools to measure material flammability based on heat release rate. A

Fire Emulator/Detector Evaluator

The fire emulator/detector evaluator (FE/DE) is a computer-controlled flow tunnel used to re-create the environments surrounding detectors in the early stages
Emberometer

NIST Emberometer

The Emberometer ( video) is a camera-based system designed to study the motion of embers as they move through the air. It uses a technique called 3D Particle
NIST Gasification Apparatus

NIST Gasification Apparatus

The NIST Gasification Apparatus was originally designed and built at EL in the late 1990s to expose solid or liquid samples to a uniform heat flux in a non
Standard firebrand

Standard Firebrand Generator

This apparatus, developed at EL, has been constructed to generate a controlled and repeatable size and mass distribution of glowing firebrands. The purpose of
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