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EPSRC Reference:	GR/L68438/01
Title:	THE PREDICTION OF SMOKE PROPERTIES AND OBSCURATION IN COMPARTMENT FIRES
Principal Investigator:	Moss, Professor J
Other Investigators:	Rubini, Professor P
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Project Partners:	Building Research Establishment (BRE)
Department:	Sch of Engineering
Organisation:	Cranfield University
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	06 January 1998	Ends:	05 January 2001	Value (£):	125,271
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Combustion
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Current smoke movement calculations concentrate entirely on fluid dynamic transport and do not identify any of the smoke properties which define its hazardous nature. Recent progress in modelling soot production in turbulent flames indicates that it may now be possible to predict local soot concentration and particle size sufficiently well to compute the spatially-varying visibility within a compartment for a range of burning fuels. Detailed measurements of smoke and related optical properties will be made in a -scale ISO compartment and used to evaluate field model predictions of these properties using the CFD code SOFEI. Model development will focus on those smoke properties critical to the prediction of visibility within the fire compartment.
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