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A Mobile Field Laboratory for Fires of Opportunity

R. S. Alger / J. R. Nichols

Techniques for preventing and suppressing large fires can be improved with a better understanding of fire characteristics and their relationship to the fuel and environment. The Fires of Opportunities program was designed to provide some of this information by generating portraits of large fires in both planned and unplanned circumstances. Part of the program involved the procurement or development of sensors to measure the appropriate fire parameters and the assembly of an instrument trailer to serve as a mobile field laboratory. The report describes the present field facilities and some of the techniques developed while acquiring portraits of large Class A and B fires. (Author)

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A Mobile Field Laboratory for Fires of Opportunity

R. S. Alger / J. R. Nichols

Techniques for preventing and suppressing large fires can be improved with a better understanding of fire characteristics and their relationship to the fuel and environment. The Fires of Opportunities program was designed to provide some of this information by generating portraits of large fires in both planned and unplanned circumstances. Part of the program involved the procurement or development of sensors to measure the appropriate fire parameters and the assembly of an instrument trailer to serve as a mobile field laboratory. The report describes the present field facilities and some of the techniques developed while acquiring portraits of large Class A and B fires. (Author)

A Mobile Field Laboratory for Fires of Opportunity

R. S. Alger / J. R. Nichols

Techniques for preventing and suppressing large fires can be improved with a better understanding of fire characteristics and their relationship to the fuel and environment. The Fires of Opportunities program was designed to provide some of this information by generating portraits of large fires in both planned and unplanned circumstances. Part of the program involved the procurement or development of sensors to measure the appropriate fire parameters and the assembly of an instrument trailer to serve as a mobile field laboratory. The report describes the present field facilities and some of the techniques developed while acquiring portraits of large Class A and B fires. (Author)

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Title:

A Mobile Field Laboratory for Fires of Opportunity

Contributors:

R. S. Alger (author) / J. R. Nichols (author)

Publication date:

1973

Size:

113 pages

Type of media:

Report

Type of material:

No indication

Language:

English

Keywords:

Emergency Services & Planning , Naval research , Fires , Measuring instruments , Buildings , Aircraft fires , Aviation fuels , Fire prevention , Suppression , Burning rate , Thermal radiation , Detectors , Instrumentation

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