Thermal exposure sensor for fire fighters : full-scale performance experiments / Atul Deshmukh; John G. Casali; Jeff A. Lancaster; Nelson P. Bryner; Roy A. McLane.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Deshmukh, Atul, author.

Contributor:

Bryner, Nelson P.

Casali, John G.

Deshmukh, Atul.

Lancaster, Jeff A.

McLane, Roy A.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.). Engineering Laboratory.

Series:

NIST technical note ; 1804.

NIST technical note ; 1804

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fire fighters--Safety measures.

Fire fighters.

Fire extinction.

Genre:

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (61 pages) : illustrations (color).

Place of Publication:

Gaithersburg, MD : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

During structural fire fighting suppression operations, fire fighters wear protective gear to insulate them from the high temperature environment including hot combustion gases, burning surfaces, and thermal radiation. Current turnout gear insulates the fire fighter to such an extent, basically encapsulating his/her entire body that it is more difficult for each individual fire fighter to understand how hazardous or hot the thermal environment is. A fire fighter s body is usually covered with protective gear during search and rescue operations. Therefore, the natural heatsensing mechanism of the body is incapable of sensing the ambient temperature, possibly putting firefighters at risk. A thermal sensing device that attaches to the visor of the head gear is designed to restore situational awareness of the firefighter by showing varying heat intensity through different colored warning indicators in the firefighter s line of sight. Human factors evaluation of the performance of the warnings in the thermal sensing device was conducted in laboratory-scale (id est, climatic chamber experiments) and in full-scale (id est fire experiments in ISO room) environments. While a previous report discussed the laboratory-scale experiments, this report describes the full-scale fire exposure experiments. The evaluation involved tracking the performance of multiple thermal sensors within a standard room during live fire tests.

Notes:

Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

July 2016.

Title from PDF title page (viewed July 28, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

958885559

Publisher Number:

GOVPUB-C13-536ac9d104c9701a7ea888cdc8c4584b

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access