Monitoring smoke damage to buildings comprises forming a small fire inside the building and carrying out temperature and carbon dioxide measurements

摘要

Process for monitoring smoke damage to buildings comprises forming a small fire inside the building by operating a predetermined heat and CO2 source at the site of a previous seat of a fire, carrying out temperature and CO2 measurements in the building to obtain temperature and CO2 concentration profiles over the height of the room, and calculating the height of the lower smoke layer boundary for a real fire from the results from the small fire. An Independent claim is also included for an apparatus for carrying out the monitoring process comprising a gas heater (1) with a hot gas manifold (2) connected to a hot gas inlet to adjust the outlet direction for the hot gas.