Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

Smoke spread tests were carried out in a two-plane compartment. The size of each plane was 5.6 x 5.6 x 3.0 m high. The fuel was kerosene burnt in square steel pans in the bottom plane. The parameters varied were the fire size, ceiling vent and the opening between the planes. Experimental data measured were the smoke-free height, temperature, mass flow, optical density and the oxygen concentration. Calculated data by zone and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models were compared with the measured data from some test runs.