For the smoke prevention design of the building, it is necessary to know what amount of smoke flow out to the corridor from the room.
In this purpose series of experiments have been made.
One is the material test using an electric furnace and another is the model box test.
1). Electric furnace test
The amount of smoke generation
C is given as follows
C=
Cs×
VWhere V is volume (m
3) in which the smoke is dispersed and Cs is the attenuation coefficient (1/m).Smoke generation is assumed to be proportional to the disintergration of material and the ratio between smoke density and weight loss depends remarkably on the ambient temperature of specimen.
That is
C=
Cs·
V=
KTWWhere
KT is the smoke generation coefficient,
W is the weight loss.
In the relation between the smoke generating coefficient and ambient temperature clearly two different portion can be seen one, is the portion of smoldering burn and another the flaming burn.
Both relation under smoldering burn and flaming one can be derived as follows,
KT= (
A-
BTn)
Where T is ambient temperature.
The rate of burning of specimen depends on the temperature and is expected of the following relation.
r=
dw/
dtK
0W
0exp (-
E/
RT)
Where W
0 is weight of specimen, R the gas constant, E the activ ation energy,
T the absolute temperature and K0 constant value.
Then the rate of smoke generation
de/
dt in case of these specimen is
de/
dt=
K·
dw/
dt= (
A-
BTn) · [
K0W0exp (-
E/
RT)]
2). Model box test
In the model box burning rate and smoke generating coefficient depends on rate of
A√
H and combustible internal lining area (
As).
Where
A is openning area (m
2) and
H is high of openning.
Approximately the model box fire is assumed to be depend on openning factor (
A√
H/
As).
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