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The purpose of this research is to understand the fire behavior expected in a mechanically ventilated compartment. To date, some experimental studies have been conducted for investigation of fire behavior under mechanical forced ventilation; however, it might be not enough to understand everything. We therefore carried out a series of experiments on fire behavior focused on the effect of air inlet position in a compartment with same size as an ISO 9705 room (width 2.4 m × length 3.6 m × height 2.4 m) under conditions of mechanical ventilation using a pool fire. In this paper, the effects of ventilation conditions such as air inlet position and flow rate were studied. We found that differences in the air inlet position and flow rate were one of the principal factors for determining the burning behavior.
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The authors would like to thank Mrs. Y. Terada and T. Mizuno for helps in the experiments.
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Matsuyama, K., Okinaga, S., Hattori, Y., Suto, H. (2017). Experimental Study on Fire Behavior in a Compartment Under Mechanical Ventilated Conditions: The Effects of Air Inlet Position. In: Harada, K., Matsuyama, K., Himoto, K., Nakamura, Y., Wakatsuki, K. (eds) Fire Science and Technology 2015. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0376-9_11
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