Tasas de liberación de calor de los

artículos quemados en incendios

A paper by Hyeong-Jin Kim and David Lilley (Heat Release Rates of Burning Items
in Fires, AIAA 2000-0722, January 2000) summarizes experimentally measured
heat release rates for more than 60 different items that could be involved in fires.
The data sets used by Kim and Lilley include FASTLite, HAZARD, and the Building
and Fire Research Laboratory data sets. As part of preparing PyroSim examples,
we developed a spreadsheet that calculates the heat release rates using the data
and method described in the paper.

Of course, a fire protection engineer is responsible for determining the appropriate

heat release rate for any specific application and the data in the paper should not
be used without careful evaluation. However, the paper does serve as a valuable
guide to:
1. Provide reference data that helps understand fire behavior.
2. Show the extremely large range of heat release values that can be obtained for similar household
items (for example chairs).
As part of preparing PyroSim examples, we developed a spreadsheet that
calculates the heat release rates using the data and method described in the
paper. In the Kim and Lilley paper, the experimental results are represented using
t2 fires for the growth and decay periods, with a constant maximum heat release
rate between these two periods.

Heat release rate using t^2 fire characterization (Kim and

Lilley, 2000).
During each time period, the heat release rate is calculated by:

Heat release rate for each time period (Kim and

Lilley, 2000).
The paper provides input parameters for each case.

Typical calculations for two different chairs from the FASTLite data set are shown
below. Chair 1 is made of one-piece wood-reinforced urethane foam and Chair 6
has a wood frame with California foam and polyolefin fabric. As can be seen, the
total duration of the fires (1900 compared to 315 seconds) and peak heat release
rates (422.5 compared to 1960 kW) are very different. However, the total energy
released is similar (270 compared to 231.9 MJ).

HRR for Chair 1 of the FASTLite data set (one-

piece wood-reinforced urethane foam) HRR for

Chair 6 of the FASTLite data set (wood frame, California foam, polyolefin fabric)
The HRR calculator is an Excel spreadsheet that can be downloaded from
the PyroSim Resourcespage and from the following link. Heat Release Rate Calculator

References
Hyeong-Jin Kim and David Lilley (Heat Release Rates of Burning Items in Fires, AIAA
2000-0722, January 2000).

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