Colt International: Middlesbrough Car Park Ventilation Tests

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Channel: Colt International Limited UK · 2010 · Science & Technology

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In 2005 Colt and the Building Research Establishment (BRE) carried out a series of full-scale hot smoke tests (0.5 MB PDF), not only to demonstrate how well impulse systems can control the flow of smoke in a car park, but also to confirm the effectiveness of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling approach used by Colt. These tests included setting up a 35m x 30m x 3m test rig and setting light to a car shell containing a tray of diesel fuel to create a 1 MW fire size.

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