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The paper constitutes a brief report on the research done under highly dynamic conditions to find alternatives to halon 1301 for application to aircraft in
The mixing and evaporation behavior of releases of potential halonreplacements for fire suppression have been investigated as part of a USAFadministered Halon
This report contains three studies on refrigerant mixture heat transfer funded by NIST and EPRI (RP 80006-21). The first study, Visualization of Nucleate Flow
Vyto Babrauskas, Barbara C. Levin, Richard Gann, M Paabo, Richard H. Harris Jr., Richard Peacock, S Yusa
This study is the principle product of a research program to provide a technically sound methodology for obtaining and using smoke toxicity data for hazard
Richard H. Harris Jr., Magdalena Navarro, Richard G. Gann, K Eberhardt
Experimental cigarettes which had been stored for several years in freezers were reevaluated on mockups constructed from the same materials in the original
The properties of nine halogenated hydrocarbons are collected from a variety of sources, including unpublished data. These data are evaluated and correlated
A series of 60 fire tests have been conducted in an enclosure consisting of a corridor and three attached rooms, one of which served as a burn room. The purpose
This report contains a description of an ongoing study of gravity currents for conditions which match those we expect to find in unwanted fires in buildings. A
An analysis of the vapor compression cycle and the main components of an air source heat pump during steady-state operation has been performed with emphasis on
General and specific guidelines to be followed by the USAF management personnel have been developed and tabulated in this Handbook. These guidelines include