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Mmkley, P.L., 1975, Work by the Fire Research Station on the Control of Smoke in Covered Shopping Centers, Proceedings of the Conseil International du Batiment (CIB) W14/168/76 (UK) 24p., September. 

Rogowski, Z. W. 1978. Manual for Testing Flame Arresters. Fire Research Station, Building Research Establishment, Borehamwood, Herts., England, UK. 

It has been shown by Palmer at the Fire Research Station (FRS) that a crucial variable governing the performance of a flame arrester is the flame speed incident on the arrester. The critical flame speed (minimum speed at which the flame can pass through the arrester) is discussed by Phillips and Pritchard (1986), drawing largely on the FRS work on propane-air mixtures at atmospheric pressure. A simple model based on heat removal from the flame yields the following relation for deflagration flame arresters ... 

Building Research Establishment, Fire Research Station. 

Methanol-acetic anhydride reaction Fire Research Station Site Singh (1993)... 

Babrauskas, V., Toxic Hazard from Fires a Simple Assessment Method, Proceedings of conference on "Fire Control the Heat. Reduce the Hazard. Queen Mary College Fire and Materials Centre and Fire Research Station, London, England, 1988, p 1-10. 

Fardell P. et al. Fire Research Station, BRE, United Kingdom, Private communication. 

Thomas P. H., Int. Conf. FIRE control the Head -Reduce the Hazard Fire Research Station, October 24-25, 1988, London, UK, paper 1. 

Report 69 Toxicity of Plastics and Rubber in Fire, P.J. Fardell, Building Research Establishment, Fire Research Station. 

Fire Service Abstracts, (quarterly since 1981), Boreham Wood., Fire Research Station... 

Babrauskas, V., Effective measurement techniques for heat, smoke and toxic fire gases, International Conference FIRE Control the Heat-Reduce the Hazard, Fire Research Station, October 24—25, London, U.K., 4, 1988. 

This book, consisting of 16 chapters, is the proceedings of the Conference, "Fire and Cellular Polymers," organized by the Fire and Materials Centre, Queen Mary College and the Fire Research Station, UK, in October 1984. First published in Cellular Polymers, the material presented reviews the most important cellular polymers and their applications in different environments where fire hazards exist. Topics include cellular polymers, rigid foam insulation board, polyurethane foams. 

Woolley, W. D and Fardell. J. P. (1976). Formation of a highly toxic organophosphorus product (TMPP) during the decompo-siiion of certain polyurethane foams under laboratory conditions. Borehamwood Fire Research Note No. 10060. U.K. Fire Research Station. Borehamwood, UK. 

H Morgan and P J Geake, Smoke Particle Sizes - A Preliminary Comparison Between Dynamic and Cumulative Smoke Production Tests, Borehamwood, UK, Fire Research Station, 1988. 

Few standardized methods have yet been established for testing the explosion hazard of dusts but some test procedures have become general in the international practice developed by the most important institutions of this field such as US Bureau of Mines, UK Fire Research Station (Borehamwood), Federal Institute for Testing of Materials in FRG (Bundesanstalt fiir Materialpriifung, BAM, Dahlem-Berlin), and a joint European group of some leading companies (BASF, Bayer, Ciba-Geigy, and Hoechst), which have been active in this field for 15 years. 

Palmer, K. N., Taylor, W. and Paul, K. T. Fire Hazards of Plastics in Furniture and Furnishings Fires in Furnished Rooms. Building Research Establishment Current Paper No. CP 21/76. Fire Research Station Borehamwood 1976... 

In the UK, a comprehensive survey was made by the Fire Research Station with the cooperation of the Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Glasgow, for the immediate causes of fire deaths in 1976-1978. The survey involved a region of Scotland, which contains approximately half of the population of Scotland. Altogether 110 victims were considered. 83 per cent of the fire deaths occurred in dwellings the remainder were distributed among commercial accomodation (hotels etc.), industrial premises, and motor car fires. 

Fig. 4.22 Gas temperature (above) and amount of CO and HCN (below) from a flexible polyurethane foam burnt in full-scale experiments plotted against time Reprinted from Ref. 42 by courtesy of Building Research Establishment, Fire Research Station... 

Basically the test involves mounting a corner section specimen - a vertical 1.5 m high by 1.0 m wide panel and another 1.5 m by 0.5 m at 90 degrees - under an enclosed calorimeter bood. Tbe Fire Research Station says the setup can accurately measure the rate of heat release, considered one of the most important parameters in assessing fire growth, also time to ignition, rate of lateral flame spread, time of production of flaming droplets and rate of smoke release. 

Fire design of buildings is based on the observed characteristics of fires, some of which have been carefully reproduced in places such as the UK Fire Research Station. These characteristics are ... 

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