Citation

Nowlen SP. Fire Safety J. 1989; 15(5): 403-413.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

This paper presents certain results of fire safety research at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). The work presented here is related to the issue of the development of standardized tests for determining the corrosive potential of materials when burned. This paper will focus on information about five specific aspects of the corrosivity issue that has been gathered as a part of several individual experimental and analytical studies. These five topics are (1) the current perception of fire risk for nuclear power plants and the role of corrosivity in that risk, (2) the composition of smoke particulate from large-scale enclosure cable fire tests and observations of chloride scavenging behavior by soot, (3) the aging behavior of smoke particulate, (4) the effect of fire size on the physical characteristics of generated smoke particulate, and (5) electrical equipment fire exposure test results.