Output details
15 - General Engineering
University of Greenwich
Article title
A generalized relationship between the normalized yields of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
Title of journal
Fire and Materials
Article number
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Volume number
35
Issue number
8
First page of article
577
ISSN of journal
0308-0501
Year of publication
2010
Number of additional authors
2
Additional information
This work has great potentials in fire safety engineering. It opens up opportunities to make use of a great deal of existing experimental data for carbon monoxide to estimate the levels of hydrogen cyanide, a lethal killer, much more toxic than carbon monoxide and probably one of the most dominant toxic fire products. Without this work, HCN is often ignored if only CO data are available. It has applications in material ranking in terms of their toxicity potency. This work is a huge step forward in improving fire safety assessment (contact Prof David Purser, david-purser@ntlworld.com, former senior scientist at BRE).
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
1 - Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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