TY - CONF A1 - Löhnert, Andrea A1 - Rabe, Frederik A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Numerical and experimental investigation of fire smoke toxicity T2 - International congress ' Fire computer modeling' CY - Cantabria, Spain DA - 2012-10-18 PY - 2012 SN - 978-84-86116-69-9 SP - 171 EP - 188 AN - OPUS4-27893 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Löhnert, Andrea A1 - Monreal, Nils A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja T1 - Advanced CFD modeling approach of smoke toxicity and light extinction for well ventilated and less well ventilated fires in compartment (Part II) N2 - Fire smoke contains a variety of highly toxic substances and can lead to unconsciousness within a few minutes and to death for critical concentrations. Currently the engineer’s methods of fire safety include various procedures to calculate the fire propagation and smoke spread in buildings. However, up to now the evaluation and calculation of smoke concerning its optical properties and toxic potential on the basis of a detailed combustion is still a field of research. Since smoke composition is highly variable and not fully characterised it has to be examined whether and how the Chemical composition and the optical properties of smoke are correlating. A method has been developed that establishes the relation between the smoke components and smoke toxicity. T2 - Interflam 2013 - 13th International fire science & engineering conference CY - Egham, Surrey, UK DA - 24.06.2013 PY - 2013 SN - 978-0-9556548-9-3 SP - 13 EP - 23 PB - Interscience Communications Limited AN - OPUS4-28981 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Löhnert, Andrea A1 - Monreal, Nils A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, U. ED - Zingoni, A. T1 - Numerical and experimental investigation of the toxicity and light extinction of fire smoke using experimental data from fire tests of polymers N2 - The Fractional Effective Dose model was used to predict the fire smoke toxicity numerically. In this context fire tests were carried out for three different building materials: polyurethane, flame retardant polyurethane and polyvinyl chloride. The fire tests were performed for flaming and smoldering combustion. The aim of the fire tests was to determine the light extinction, the smoke density and the combustion products at varying oxygen concentrations, different temperatures and different irradiance levels. The fire tests were performed in the German DIN-tube and also in the Cone Calorimeter. Stoichiometric coefficients at varying oxygen concentrations and temperatures were determined from measurements. With these stoichiometric coefficients reaction equations were defined and implemented in the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program, ANSYS CFX. The implemented reaction equations were used to account for different ventilation and temperature conditions in the simulation. The fire and smoke propagation was calculated numerically with CFD in the room corner test geometry. Equations to account for toxicity and light extinction were also implemented and were used to analyse the toxicity and the optical properties of fire smoke with CFD. T2 - Research and applications in structural engineering, mechanics and computation - 5th International conference on structural engineering, mechanics and computation CY - Cape Town, South Africa DA - 02.09.2013 PY - 2013 SN - 978-1-138-00061-2 SN - 978-1-315-85078-8 SP - 2003 EP - 2008 PB - CRC Press AN - OPUS4-29279 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Rabe, Frederik A1 - Löhnert, Andrea A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Thöns, Sebastian T1 - Numerical quantification of fire smoke toxicity in tunnels N2 - Vehicle fires in tunnels can have catastrophic consequences for the road users, the property and traffic inffastructure. To support an evacuation planning, this study simulates the fire smoke toxicity and the smoke layer of a vehicle fire in a full-size test tunnel. The three dimensional prediction of the fire smoke toxicity in the test tunnel is realized by implementing the Fractional Effective Dose and the Fractional Summation concept in a CFD environment. The developed model facilitates to calculate fire scenarios for various types of tunnels and to quantify the hazard e.g. during an evacuation scenario. T2 - ISAVFT 15 - 15th International symposium on aerodynamics, ventilation and fire in tunnels CY - Barcelona, Spain DA - 18.09.2013 KW - Toxicity KW - Fire KW - Smoke KW - Tunnel KW - FED KW - Fractional effective dose PY - 2013 SN - 978-1-85598-137-9 SP - 203 EP - 215 AN - OPUS4-29719 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Löhnert, Andrea A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Monreal, Nils A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Numerische Analyse der Toxizität und Sichtverhältnisse im Brandrauch auf der Grundlage von experimentellen Untersuchungen von Polymeren im DIN-Rohr und Cone Calorimeter N2 - Im Rahmen der schutzzielorientierten Brandschutzbemessung müssen, neben dem Nachweis der Wirksamkeit von Schutzmaßnahmen, Nachweise zur Einhaltung von in Abhängigkeit des Sicherheitsniveaus festgelegter Grenzwerte für die zulässige Wärmestrahlung, die Temperatur der oberen und unteren Rauchschicht, die toxische Konzentration von Rauchgasen und die Mindestsichtweite zum Schutz von Personen im Bauwerk erbracht werden. T2 - 3. Magdeburger Brand- und Explosionsschutztag / vfdb-Workshop CY - Magdeburg, Germany DA - 21.03.2013 PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-00-041601-9 SP - 1 EP - 13 AN - OPUS4-30075 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Löhnert, Andrea A1 - Monreal, Nils A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Krause, U. T1 - CFD modeling approach of smoke toxicity and opacity for flaming and non-flaming combustion processes N2 - Current engineer’s methods of fire safety design include various approaches to calculate the fire Propagation and smoke spread in buildings by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Because of the increased computational capacity, CFD is commonly used for prediction of time-dependent safety parameters such as critical temperature, smoke layer height, rescue times, distributions of chemical products, and smoke toxicity and visibility. The analysis of smoke components with CFD is particularly complex, because the composition of the fire gases and also the smoke quantities depends on material properties and also on ambient and burning conditions. Oxygen concentrations and the temperature distribution in the compartment affect smoke production and smoke gas toxicity qualitatively and quantitatively. For safety designs, it can be necessary to take these influences into account. Current smoke models in CFD often use a constant smoke yield that does not vary with different fire conditions. If smoke gas toxicity is considered, a simple approach with the focus on carbon monoxide is often used. On the basis of a large set of experimental data, a numerical smoke model has been developed. The developed numerical smoke model includes optical properties, production, and toxic potential of smoke under different conditions. For the setup of the numerical model, experimental data were used for calculation of chemical components and evaluation of smoke toxicity under different combustion conditions. Therefore, averaged reaction equations were developed from experimental measurements and implemented in ANSYS CFX 14.0. KW - Fire modeling KW - Fire safety KW - Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) KW - Smoke toxicity PY - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.2340 SN - 1099-1018 VL - 40 IS - 6 SP - 759 EP - 772 PB - Wiley CY - West Sussex, UK AN - OPUS4-37514 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -