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Experimental Study of the Optical Properties of Soot and Smoke (NISTIR 5499)

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Author(s)

M Y. Choi, George W. Mulholland, Anthony Hamins, Takashi Kashiwagi

Abstract

The accurate measurement of flame-generated particlates is a problem of current interest to researchers in the fire and combustion community. Within the flame, the soot concentration measurement is central to the study of soot growth and for radiant transport analysis. In the post-flame region of large fires, particulate measurements are important in developing computational modeling of smoke plume movement, in the detection fires, in assessing the reduction in visibility arising from a fire within a building and for estimating the health and environmental impacts.
Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 5499
Report Number
5499
NIST Pub Series
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.5499
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Keywords

fire research, soot, smoke, optical properties
Fire and Buildings and Construction

Citation

Choi, M. , Mulholland, G. , Hamins, A. and Kashiwagi, T. (1994), Experimental Study of the Optical Properties of Soot and Smoke (NISTIR 5499), NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.5499, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=909688 (Accessed April 18, 2024)

Created August 31, 1994, Updated October 12, 2021