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    This document summarizes a series of 27 full-scale fire tests conducted in a manufactured home to characterize fire environments and test the performance of smoke alarms. Sensors measured conditions like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and oxygen concentrations as well as smoke, temperature, and alarm activation times at various locations in the home during fires started by sources like burning chairs, mattresses, and cooking oil. The data collected is presented without analysis to provide access to interested parties.

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    Fire Research Division

    Home Smoke Alarm Project, Manufactured Home Tests


    Report of Test FR 4016 February, 2005
    Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill, Richard W. Bukowski, and Paul A. Reneke Building and Fire Research Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology

    This Report of Test documents a series of full scale tests conducted as part of research into the performance of smoke alarms. The twenty seven experiments conducted as part of this test series were performed in a manufactured home. Another series of tests, conducted in a two-story house, consisted of a total of nine experiments with instrumentation similar to those included in this report and is reported in NIST Report of Test 4017, also available on this web site. The data collected is presented without analysis or interpretation in order to provide access to the data by interested parties.

    Introduction
    The overall purpose of the project is to determine how different types of fire alarms can respond to threatening residential fire settings in order to permit occupant egress. Full-scale tests of current smoke, heat, and carbon monoxide alarms in actual homes with appropriate contents as fuels provide a base of data to evaluate the performance of modern residential alarm technologies. Fire scenarios (including ignition source, first item ignited, and room of fire origin) were selected based upon a statistical analysis of available fire loss data. Selected fires include a mattress fire in a bedroom, upholstered chair fire in a living area, and a cooking oil fire in a kitchen. This report documents experimental test series in the program conducted to characterize the environment in typical residential fire scenarios. Data presented include the time varying concentrations of CO, CO2, and O2, smoke obscuration, and temperature at multiple locations in the structure. Additional details of instrumentation design and location, along with uncertainty estimates for the measurements is included NIST Technical Note 1455 [1].

    Test Data
    Details of each of the 27 tests, numbered 1 through 15 and 30 through 41 are available. For each of the tests, a summary of the test conditions and ignition source are presented. Graphs of all test data along with spreadsheets of the data are included. Uncertainty in the measurements is discussed below. Test 1, Smoldering Chair, Living Area Test 2, Flaming Chair, Living Area Test 3, Smoldering Mattress, Bedroom (Test aborted due to ignition failure) Test 4, Smoldering Mattress, Bedroom Test 5, Flaming Mattress, Bedroom Test 6, Smoldering Mattress, Bedroom Test 7, Flaming Mattress, Bedroom Test 8, Smoldering Mattress, Bedroom Test 9, Flaming Mattress, Bedroom. (Burn Room Door Closed) Test 10, Flaming Chair, Living Area Test 11, Smoldering Chair, Living Area Test 12, Cooking Oil Fire, Kitchen Test 13, Cooking Oil Fire, Kitchen Test 14, Flaming Mattress, Bedroom, (Burn Room Door Closed) Test 15, Flaming Chair, Living Area Test 30, Smoldering Chair, Living Area (Test aborted due to ignition failure) Test 31, Smoldering Chair, Living Area Test 32, Flaming Chair, Living Area (Test aborted due to ignition failure) Test 33, Flaming Chair, Living Area Test 34, Smoldering Chair, Living Area Test 35, Flaming Chair, Living Area Test 36, Flaming Mattress, Bedroom (Burn Room Door Closed) Test 37, Smoldering Mattress, Bedroom Test 38, Flaming Mattress, Bedroom Test 39, Flaming Mattress, Bedroom Test 40, Smoldering Mattress, Bedroom Test 41, Cooking Oil Fire, Kitchen

    For the non-modified smoke alarms, heat alarms, and telltale sprinklers, only an activation time is available. Uncertainty in the measurements is discussed below. Activation Time for Non-Modified Smoke Alarms, Heat Alarms, and Sprinkler

    Test SDC01 SDC02 SDC03 SDC04 SDC05 SDC06 SDC07 SDC08 SDC09 SDC10 SDC11 SDC12 SDC13 SDC14 SDC15 SDC30 SDC31 SDC32 SDC33 SDC34 SDC35 SDC36 SDC37 SDC38 SDC39 SDC40 SDC41

    Description Smoldering Chair in Living Room Flaming Chair in Living Room Smoldering Mattress in Bedroom (Test aborted due to ignition failure) Smoldering Mattress in Bedroom Flaming Mattress in Bedroom Smoldering Mattress in Bedroom Flaming Mattress in Bedroom Smoldering Mattress in Bedroom Flaming Mattress in Bedroom (Burn Room Door Closed) Flaming Chair in Living Room Smoldering Chair in Living Room Vegetable Oil on Kitchen Stove Vegetable Oil on Kitchen Stove Flaming Mattress in Bedroom (Burn Room Door Closed) Flaming Chair Living Room Smoldering Chair in Living Room (Test aborted due to Ignition Failure) Smoldering Chair in Living Room Flaming Chair in Living Room (Test Aborted due to Ignition Failure) Flaming Chair in Living Room Smoldering Chair in Living Room Flaming Chair in Living Room Flaming Mattress in Bedroom (Burn Room Door Closed) Smoldering Mattress in Bedroom Flaming Mattress in Bedroom Flaming Mattress in Bedroom Smoldering Mattress in Bedroom Vegetable Oil on Kitchen Stove

    Non-modified Smoke Alarms Photo 3412 78 -3871 42 3443 85 2339** 95 108 883 741 690 2648 231 -4245 -106 1668 108 72 1632 95 90 2570 642 Ion 5192 24 --32 5998 43 3697 29 -3971 -588 3402 203 -4905 -20 3548 22 38 1746 39 34 -136 Ion 5247 28 --32 5998 47 3699 29 44 3963 751 682 3406 199 -4911 -22 3712 22 44 1736 37 34 -230

    Heat Alarm --* 130 --140 -205 3798 3724 369 -1453 1388 ---8084 -16 3900 138 99 -1145 120 -1244

    Telltale Sprinkler ----147 6073 137 3745 127 194 4359 1437 1388 3414 351 -8103 ----124 -139 126 -1262

    * No data available ** Triggered alarm for 40 s at 2339; second alarm at 3707 s

    Acknowledgments
    The authors gratefully acknowledge the efforts of the Fire Metrology Group and others, including N. Bryner, W. Walton, T. Cleary, D. Stroup, W. Twilley, J. Lee, G. Roadarmel, J. McElroy, M. Selepak, D. Weinert, M. Donnelly, M. Nyden, C. Davis, and L. DeLauter. G. Forney developed the web conversion for the test data. In addition, an in-kind contribution from the National Research Council-Canada measured toxicological species with FTIR within the manufactured home. The measurements were taken by Dr. J. Siu and Dr. J. Kanabus-Kaminska. The results are pending further analysis.

    The home smoke alarm project was sponsored by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Fire Administration, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, Underwriters Laboratories. The National Fire Protection Association (In-kind contribution), and National Research Council Canada, (In-kind contribution).

    References
    [1] Bukowski, R.W., Peacock, R.D., Averill, J.D., Cleary, T.G., Bryner, T.G., Walton, W.D., Reneke, P.A., and Kuligowski, E.D., Performance of Home Smoke Alarms: Analysis of the Response of Several Available Technologies in Residential Fire Settings, Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol., Tech. Note 1455 (2003). For further information, contact Richard W. Bukowski, richard.bukowski@nist.gov, (301) 975-6853, fax: (301) 975-4052

    Privacy Statement/Security Notice | Disclaimer | FOIA NIST is an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration.

    Last updated: 6/20/2002

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