@article{ref1,
title="Assessing levels of hydrogen cyanide in fire experiments using a generalized correlation",
journal="Journal of fire protection engineering",
year="2012",
author="Wang, Zhaozhi and Jia, Fuchen and Galea, Edwin R.",
volume="22",
number="3",
pages="227-240",
abstract="A generalized relationship between the normalized yields of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide for nitrogen-containing materials has recently been derived. This correlation is used in the current study to analyze experimentally derived hydrogen cyanide data from three sets of fire tests. For a reduced-scale compartment fire test, the yields of hydrogen cyanide with varied equivalence ratios and the transient hydrogen cyanide concentrations are estimated; for a series of room-corridor sofa fire tests, the extremely high hydrogen cyanide level observed is demonstrated to be a realistic result and a hydrogen cyanide yield value of 0.047 g/g is suggested for this sofa in post-flashover fires for fire safety assessments; and finally, for a series of smoke chamber tests with polyurethane, possible causes for the failure to detect hydrogen cyanide are suggested.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1042-3915",
doi="10.1177/1042391512450108",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1042391512450108"
}