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PUBLICATIONS

Oxygen-Limited Fires Inside Under-Ventilated Enclosures (OLIVE-FIRE)

Published

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan, Isaac Leventon

Abstract

This report documents a series of fire experiments performed within steel electrical enclosures. The objective is to validate a simple empirical model that predicts the maximum heat release rate of a fire within a closed compartment as a function of its ventilation openings.
Citation
Technical Note (NIST TN) - 2232
Report Number
2232
NIST Pub Series
Technical Note (NIST TN)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2232
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Keywords

Electrical enclosures, Under-ventilated fire.
Fire modeling, Fire dynamics and science and Fire

Citation

McGrattan, K. and Leventon, I. (2022), Oxygen-Limited Fires Inside Under-Ventilated Enclosures (OLIVE-FIRE), Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2232, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=934903 (Accessed October 11, 2025)

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Created August 9, 2022, Updated November 29, 2022
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