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  • Flammability Assessment of BulkPacked Nonrechargeable Lithium Primary Batteries in Transport Category Aircraft Final Report
    Flammability Assessment of Bulk-Packed, Nonrechargeable Lithium Primary Batteries in Transport Category Aircraft Final Report
    Webster, Harry
    2004-06-01 | PDF
    This report documents the findings of a series of tests conducted to determine the flammability characteristics of primary lithium batteries and the dangers associated with shipping them in bulk form on commercial transport category aircraft.
  • Behavior of Bromotrifluoropropene and Pentafluoroethane When Subjected to a Simulated Aerosol Can Explosion
    Behavior of Bromotrifluoropropene and Pentafluoroethane When Subjected to a Simulated Aerosol Can Explosion
    Reinhardt, John W.
    2004-05-01 | PDF
    This technical note presents the data from simulated aerosol can explosion tests while using bromotrifluoropropene (BTP) and pentafluoroethane (HFC-125) as fire suppression agents for aircraft cargo compartments. These explosion tests were conducted at below inert volumetric concentrations to determine the agent's explosion attenuation performance. ...
  • Limiting Oxygen Concentration Required to Inert Jet Fuel Vapors Existing at Reduced Fuel Tank Pressures
    Limiting Oxygen Concentration Required to Inert Jet Fuel Vapors Existing at Reduced Fuel Tank Pressures
    Summer, Steven M.
    2003-08-01 | PDF
    This report discusses experiments to determine the reduction in oxygen concentration required to prevent a fuel tank explosion. A simulated aircraft fuel tank containing JP-8 fuel of an amount equivalent to a mass loading of approximately 4.5 kg/m3 was used to determine the limiting oxygen concentration (LOC) at pressures corresponding to altitudes ...
  • A Description and Analysis of the FAA Onboard Oxygen Analysis System
    A Description and Analysis of the FAA Onboard Oxygen Analysis System
    Burns, Michael ;
    Cavage, William M.
    2003-07-01 | PDF
    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is planning a series of ground and flight tests with Airbus to prove the concept of a simplified fuel tank inerting system, which has been developed by the FAA. The FAA has also developed an onboard oxygen analysis system to measure the oxygen concentration in the aircraft fuel tank during the testing. To h ...
  • Ground Tests of Aircraft Flight Deck Smoke Penetration Resistance
    Ground Tests of Aircraft Flight Deck Smoke Penetration Resistance
    Blake, David
    2003-04-01 | PDF
    This report documents a series of tests to determine the amount of positive pressure differential between the flight deck and surrounding areas necessary to prevent smoke from penetrating into the flight deck. The testing also explored methods to demonstrate the effectiveness of those ventilation conditions. The tests were conducted on the ground i ...
  • Minimum Performance Standard for Aircraft Cargo Compartment Halon Replacement Fire Suppression Systems
    Minimum Performance Standard for Aircraft Cargo Compartment Halon Replacement Fire Suppression Systems
    Reinhardt, John W.
    2003-04-01 | PDF
    This technical note presents the updated version of the minimum performance standards (MPS) that a Halon 1301 replacement or alternate system for aircraft cargo compartment must meet as part of the aircraft certification procedures. This standard considers gaseous and nongaseous fire suppression systems for full-scale fire testing. The Federal Avia ...
  • The Response of Aircraft Oxygen Generators Exposed to Elevated Temperatures
    The Response of Aircraft Oxygen Generators Exposed to Elevated Temperatures
    Blake, David
    2003-04-01 | PDF
    The purpose of this testing was to determine the temperatures that would cause self-activation of sodium chlorate oxygen generators. The data will be used to establish the degree of thermal protection that would be required to prevent the activation of chemical oxygen generators should they be exposed to heat from cargo compartment fire involving o ...
  • The Correlation of Heat Release Calorimetry Measurements
    The Correlation of Heat Release Calorimetry Measurements
    Filipczak, Robert Z. ;
    Lyon, Richard E.
    2002-11-01 | PDF
    The Ohio State University (OSU) Rate of Heat Release Apparatus specified in FAR Part 25.853(a-1) defines both apparatus test conditions and pass/fail criteria for large surface area aircraft interior materials, such as sidewall panels, bulkheads, and stowage bins. The cone calorimeter (ASTM E-1354 Standard Test Method for Heat and Visible Smoke Rel ...
  • Burning Behavior Within a Seat Armrest Cavity
    Burning Behavior Within a Seat Armrest Cavity
    Johnson, Richard M.
    2002-09-01 | PDF
    The purpose of this technical note is to document the results of fire tests conducted to examine the characteristics of fire that may occur in the cavity of an aircraft seat armrest and the fire-containment capacity of the cavity. In all the tests the armrest materials did not ignite, and the fire was contained within the armrest cavity.
  • Development of a Minimum Performance Standard for HandHeld Fire Extinguishers as a Replacement for Halon 1211 on Civilian Transport Category Aircraft
    Development of a Minimum Performance Standard for Hand-Held Fire Extinguishers as a Replacement for Halon 1211 on Civilian Transport Category Aircraft
    Webster, Harry
    2002-08-01 | PDF
    One or more Halon 1211 hand-held fire extinguishers are specified in Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 25.851 as a requirement on transport category aircraft with 31 or more seats. Halon 1211 has been linked to the destruction of the ozone layer and production of new Halon 1211 has been halted per the Montreal Protocol in 1993. The phase out o ...
  • FireResistant Elastomers
    Fire-Resistant Elastomers
    Lyon, Richard E.
    2002-05-01 | PDF
    Molecular design of semi-inorganic rubbers has yielded flexible polysilphenylene-siloxane and polyphosphazene elastomers having the fire resistance of rigid, high-temperature engineering plastics (e.g., polyaramids, polyetherketones, and polyarylsulfones) based on the results of microscale combustibility data. In flaming combustion, a commercially ...
  • A Microscale Combustion Calorimeter
    A Microscale Combustion Calorimeter
    Lyon, Richard E. ;
    Walters, Richard
    2002-02-01 | PDF
    A method for measuring the heat release rate of milligram-sized samples is described in this report. Pyrolysis-combustion flow calorimetry (PCFC) separately reproduces the solid-state and gas phase processes of flaming combustion in a non-flaming test by rapid controlled pyrolysis of the sample in an inert gas stream followed by high-temperature ox ...
  • Evaluation of Water Mist With and Without Nitrogen as an Aircraft Cargo Compartment Fire Suppression System
    Evaluation of Water Mist With and Without Nitrogen as an Aircraft Cargo Compartment Fire Suppression System
    Reinhardt, J. W.
    2002-02-01 | PDF
    This report documents the full-scale evaluation tests of a water mist system, with and without nitrogen that would be available from an onboard inert gas generation system (OBIGGS) against a series of standardized aircraft cargo fires.
  • Heat Release and Flammability Testing of Surrogate Panels
    Heat Release and Flammability Testing of Surrogate Panels
    Marker, Timothy
    2001-12-01 | PDF
    A task group assembled under the auspices of the International Aircraft Materials Fire Test Working Group examined issues involving fire test approval of previously qualified interior material systems following renovation or alteration. A major problem associated with the alteration of interior system components is the difficulty in conducting cert ...
  • Development and Performance of an Adiabatic Expansion Nozzle for Improved Fire Extinguishers
    Development and Performance of an Adiabatic Expansion Nozzle for Improved Fire Extinguishers
    Filipczak, Robert Z.
    2001-12-01 | PDF
    A new fire extinguisher concept, the adiabatic expansion nozzle, extends the usefulness of fire extinguishing compounds by lowering the temperature and discharge pressure of the agent. This allows total flood type halon replacements to be used in handheld applications and, in the instance of carbon dioxide, produces a low-pressure dry ice snow.
  • Flammability of Automotive Child Restraint Seats for Use in Aircraft
    Flammability of Automotive Child Restraint Seats for Use in Aircraft
    Johnson, R. ;
    Wuethrich, Lindsey
    2001-11-01 | PDF
    Child restraint seat used in aircraft are based on automotive designs that are required to pass a horizontal burn rate test method. The flammability of child seat materials was gauged against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) vertical Bunsen burner tests method. Basically, the vertical test prescribed in Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) 25 ...
  • Fourier Transform Infrared Analysis of Combustion Gases
    Fourier Transform Infrared Analysis of Combustion Gases
    Speitel, Louise
    2001-10-01 | PDF
    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has developed a unique extractive Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) system to analyze rapidly changing moist fire gas concentrations as a function of time. The system was designed to eliminate numerous errors generated by state-of-the-art FTIR systems for fire gas analysis. In addition, the path length, cel ...
  • Thermal Decomposition of Cyanate Ester Resins
    Thermal Decomposition of Cyanate Ester Resins
    Ramirez, M. L. ;
    Walters, R.
    2001-09-01 | PDF
    Polycyanurate networks were prepared by thermal polymerization of cyanate ester monomers containing two or more cyanate ester (-O-C≡N) functional groups. The thermal decomposition chemistry of nine different polycyanurates was studied by thermogravimetry and infrared analysis of solid films and analysis of the gases evolved during pyrolysis using i ...
  • Calculating Polymer Flammability from Molar Group Contributions
    Calculating Polymer Flammability from Molar Group Contributions
    Walters, Richard ;
    Lyon, Richard E.
    2001-09-01 | PDF
    Specific heat release rate is the molecular-level fire response of a burning polymer. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) obtains the specific heat release rate of milligram samples by analyzing the oxygen consumed by complete combustion of the pyrolysis gases during a linear heating program. Dividing the specific heat release rate (W/g) by t ...
  • Molar Group Contributions to the Heat of Combustion
    Molar Group Contributions to the Heat of Combustion
    Walters, Richard N.
    2001-09-01 | PDF
    Experimental results for the gross heat of combustion of over 140 commercial and developmental polymers and small molecules of known chemical structures were used to derive additive molar group contributions. Predicted gross heats of combustion were within 2.5 percent of the values measured by oxygen bomb calorimetry.
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