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15 - General Engineering
University of Greenwich
A generalized relationship between the normalized yields of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide
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).