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Performance of Home Smoke Alarms, Analysis of the Response of Several Available Technologies in Residential Fire Settings.

December 1, 2003
Author(s)
Richard W. Bukowski, Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill, Thomas G. Cleary, Nelson P. Bryner, Paul A. Reneke
This report presents the results of the project and provides details of the response of a range of residential smoke alarm technologies in a controlled laboratory test and in a series of real-scale tests conducted in two different residential structures

On the Interaction of a Liquid Droplet with a Pool of Hot Cooking Oil

November 1, 2003
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Jiann C. Yang, Thomas G. Cleary
An experimental study is presented for distilled water droplets impacting on a heated pool of cooking oil. The impaction process was recorded using a high-speed digital camera at 1000 frames per second. The initial droplet diameter was fixed at 3.1+0.1 mm

Light Scattering Characteristics and Size Distribution of Smoke and Nuisance Aerosols

June 16, 2003
Author(s)
D W. Weinert, Thomas Cleary, George W. Mulholland, P F. Beever
This paper presents the differential mass scattering cross section [m 2multiply by}g -1multiply by}sr -1] of various non-flaming and flaming fire generated smoke aerosols as well as nuisance aerosols created in the Fire Emulator/Detector Evaluator. These

Using Sensor Signals to Analyze Fires

January 23, 2002
Author(s)
William D. Davis, Thomas G. Cleary, Michelle K. Donnelly, S. D. Hellerman
Building fire sensors are capable of supplying substantially more information to the fire service than just the simple detection of a possible fire. Nelson, in 1984, recognized the importance of tying all the building sensors to a smart fire panel. In

Distributed Sensor Fire Detection (NIST SP 965)

February 1, 2001
Author(s)
Thomas G. Cleary, Kathy A. Notarianni
This paper details a case study that utilized model simulations to assess the relative performance benefits of distributed sensing over single-station, single-sensor smoke detection and co-located multi-sensor detection. 500 individual CFAST computer fire

Fire Emulator/Detector Evaluator: Design, Operation, and Performance (NIST SP 965)

February 1, 2001
Author(s)
Thomas G. Cleary, Michelle K. Donnelly, William L. Grosshandler
This paper describes the fire emulator/detector evaluator which was developed by NIST. The FE/DE has proven to be a very flexible design. The main function of the device is to reproduce the environment (temperature, air velocity, aerosol and gas species

Size Distribution and Light Scattering Properties of Test Smokes (NIST SP 965)

February 1, 2001
Author(s)
D W. Weinert, Thomas Cleary, George W. Mulholland
Measurements of particles size distributions and optical properties of smoke detector test smokes may yield a better understanding of existing detector designs and facilitate design improvements; NIST is making such measurements now on smokes produced in

Performance Data on Cold Temperature Dispersion of CF3I

May 2, 2000
Author(s)
Jiann C. Yang, Thomas G. Cleary, Michelle K. Donnelly
Tritluoroiodomethane (CF3I) has been proposed as a potential replacement for Halon 1301 in aircraft engine nacelle and dry bay fire protection applications. The potential use of CF3I in fuel tank ullage inerting has also been considered recently. Before