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© 2012 ASHRAE (www.ashrae.org). For personal use only. Additional reproduction, distribution, or transmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAE's prior written permission. Handbook of Smoke Control Engineering © 2012 ASHRAE (www.ashrae.org). For personal use only. Additional reproduction, distribution, or transmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAE's prior written permission. ABOUT THE AUTHORS JohnH.Klote Dr.JohnKloteisknownthroughouttheworldasanexpertinsmokecontrolduetohismanybookson thetopicandhis19yearsoffireresearchconductedattheU.S.NationalInstituteofStandardsandTech- nology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. For 11 years, he operated his own consulting company spe- cializinginanalysisofsmokecontrolsystems.Klotedevelopedaseriesofsmokecontrolseminarsthathe teachesfortheSocietyofFireProtectionEngineers.Theprimaryauthorofthe2007ICCbookAGuideto SmokeControlinthe2006IBCandthe2002ASHRAEbookPrinciplesofSmokeManagement,Dr.Klote isalsotheprimaryauthoroftwootherASHRAEbooksaboutsmokecontrol,andhehaswrittenchapters aboutsmokecontrolinanumberofbooks,aswellasover80papersandarticlesonsmokecontrol,smoke movement,CFDfiresimulations,andotheraspectsoffireprotection.Heisalicensedprofessionalengi- neerinWashington,DC.KloteearnedhisdoctorateinmechanicalengineeringfromGeorgeWashington University.KloteisamemberofNFPA,afellowofSFPEandafellowofASHRAE.Heisamemberand past chair ofASHRAE Technical Committee 5.6, Fire and Smoke Control, and a member of the NFPA SmokeManagementCommittee. JamesA.Milke ProfessorMilkeisthechairmanoftheDepartmentofFireProtectionEngineeringattheUniversityof Maryland.HeearnedhisdoctorateinaerospaceengineeringfromtheUniversityofMaryland.Milkeisan authoroftheASHRAEbookPrinciplesofSmokeManagement,andofthechapters“SmokeMovementin Buildings” and “Fundamentals of Fire Detection” in the 2008 NFPA Fire Protection Handbook. He is also an author of the chapters “Analytical Methods for Determining Fire Resistance of Steel Members,” “SmokeManagementinCoveredMallsandAtria,”and“ConductionofHeatinSolids”inthe2008SFPE Handbook. Milke is a licensed professional engineer in Delaware, a member of NFPA and American SocietyofCivilEngineers(ASCE),afellowofSFPE,andapastchairmanoftheNFPASmokeManage- mentCommittee. PaulG.Turnbull PaulTurnbullhasbeenactivelyinvolvedinthedevelopmentofcodesandstandardsforsmokecontrol systemsforover24years.Hebeganhiscareerasahardwaredeveloper,designingRFIpowerlinefilters, and later moved into development of control products and accessories for building control systems. He then spent 10 years responsible for safety certifications of building controls, HVAC, fire alarm, and smokecontrolequipment.Forthepast15years,hehasspecializedinthedevelopmentandapplicationof gatewaysthatenablefirealarm,security,andlightingcontrolsystemstobeintegratedwithbuildingcon- trolsinordertoprovidecoordinatedoperationsbetweenthesesystems.Heisanactivememberinseveral professional associations focused on control of fire and smoke. Turnbull has a baccalaureate degree in electricalengineeringandamaster'sdegreeincomputerscience.HeisamemberofASHRAETechnical Committee 5.6, Fire and Smoke Control, and the NFPA Smoke Management Committee. He is an instructorfortheSFPEsmokecontrolseminars. AhmedKashef Dr. Kashef is a group leader of Fire Resistance and Risk Management in the Fire Research Program at the Institute for Research in Construction, National Research Council of Canada. He holds a PhD in civil engineering and has more than 20 years research and practical experience. Dr. Kashef’s expertise involves applying numerical and experimental techniques in a wide range of engineering applications including fire risk analysis, fire dynamics, tenability, heat transfer, and smoke transport in the built envi- ronmentandtransportationsystems.Hehasauthoredandco-authoredmorethan180publications.Hehas managed a broad range of projects involving modeling and full-scale fire experiments to address fire related issues. This includes projects that investigated the ventilation strategies and detection systems in road and subway tunnels. He is the technical secretary of theASHRAE Technical Committee 5.6, Fire © 2012 ASHRAE (www.ashrae.org). For personal use only. Additional reproduction, distribution, or transmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAE's prior written permission. and Smoke Control, and the chair of the research subprogram of ASHRAE Technical Committee 5.9, EnclosedVehicular Facilities. Dr. Kashef is a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario, andamemberoftheNFPATechnicalCommittee502onRoadTunnelandHighwayFireProtection.Heis an associate member of the World Road Association (PIARC), Working Group 4, Ventilation and Fire ControlandacorrespondingmemberoftheTechnicalCommittee4RoadTunnelOperations. MichaelJ.Ferreira Michael Ferreira is a senior fire protection engineer and project manager at HughesAssociates, a fire science and engineering consulting company. He has been primarily involved with smoke management system design projects for the past 17 years and has published several articles on the innovative use of computer models for these systems. Ferreira has extensive experience in performing smoke control com- missioningtestingandcalibratingcomputermodelsusingfielddata.Hewastheleadinvestigatorresponsi- ble for evaluating smoke control system performance in NIST’s investigation of the World Trade Center disaster.Hehasalsoconductedaperformance-basedanalysisofthesmokecontrolsystemattheStatueof Liberty. Ferreira is a professional engineer and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Fire Protection Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a member of the NFPA Smoke Man- agementSystemsCommittee,andisaninstructorfortheNFPAandSFPEsmokecontrolseminars. © 2012 ASHRAE (www.ashrae.org). For personal use only. Additional reproduction, distribution, or transmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAE's prior written permission. ISBN978-1-936504-24-4 2012JohnH.Klote.PublishedbyASHRAE.Allrightsreserved. PublishedincooperationwithInternationalCodeCouncil,Inc., NationalFireProtectionAssociation,andSocietyofFireProtectionEngineers. ASHRAE 1791TullieCircle,N.E. Atlanta,GA30329 www.ashrae.org PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Printedon30%post-consumerwasteusingsoy-basedinks. IllustrationsbyJohnH.Klote,unlessotherwisecredited. ASHRAEhascompiledthispublicationwithcare,butASHRAEanditspublishingpartnershavenotinvestigated,andASHRAEanditspublishing partnersexpresslydisclaimanydutytoinvestigate,anyproduct,service,process,procedure,design,orthelikethatmaybedescribedherein.The appearanceofanytechnicaldataoreditorialmaterialinthispublicationdoesnotconstituteendorsement,warranty,orguarantybyASHRAEand itspublishingpartnersofanyproduct,service,process,procedure,design,orthelike.ASHRAEanditspublishingpartnersdonotwarrantthatthe informationinthepublicationisfreeoferrors,andASHRAEanditspublishingpartnersdonotnecessarilyagreewithanystatementoropinion inthispublication.Theentireriskoftheuseofanyinformationinthispublicationisassumedbytheuser. NopartofthisbookmaybereproducedwithoutpermissioninwritingfromASHRAE,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquotebriefpassagesorrepro- duceillustrationsinareviewwithappropriatecredit;normayanypartofthisbookbereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedin anywayorbyanymeans—electronic,photocopying,recording,orother—withoutpermissioninwritingfromASHRAE.Requestsforpermission shouldbesubmittedatwww.ashrae.org/permissions. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Handbookofsmokecontrolengineering/JohnH.Klote,editorandchief;JamesA.Milke,PaulG.Turnbull. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-936504-24-4(hardcover:alk.paper) 1. Buildings--Smokecontrolsystems--Handbooks,manuals,etc.2. Smokeprevention--Hand- books,manuals,etc.3. Ventilation--Handbooks,manuals,etc.4. Firetesting--Handbooks,manuals,etc. I.Klote,JohnH.II.Milke,J.A.(James A.)III.Turnbull,PaulG.,1961-IV.AmericanSocietyofHeating,RefrigeratingandAir-ConditioningEngineers. TH1088.5.H362012 693.8--dc23 2012009054 ASHRAESTAFF PUBLISHINGSERVICES SPECIALPUBLICATIONS DavidSoltis MarkS.Owen GroupManagerofPublishingServices Editor/GroupManager andElectronicCommunications ofHandbookandSpecialPublications JayneJackson CindySheffieldMichaels PublicationTrafficAdministrator ManagingEditor PUBLISHER JamesMadisonWalker W.StephenComstock AssociateEditor ElisabethWarrick AssistantEditor MeaghanO’Neil EditorialAssistant MichshellPhillips EditorialCoordinator Anyupdates/erratatothispublicationwillbepostedontheASHRAE Websiteatwww.ashrae.org/publicationupdates. © 2012 ASHRAE (www.ashrae.org). For personal use only. Additional reproduction, distribution, or transmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAE's prior written permission. DEDICATION ThisbookisdedicatedtothememoryofHarold(Bud)Nelson.Becauseofhismanysignificantcontributionswhenhe worked at the General Services Administration (GSA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),BudNelsonwasrecognizedasoneofthegreatpioneersoffireprotectionengineering.BudNelsonalsowas thefirstchairmanoftheNFPASmokeManagementCommittee. vii © 2012 ASHRAE (www.ashrae.org). For personal use only. Additional reproduction, distribution, or transmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAE's prior written permission. HOW TO USE THIS BOOK Thisbookisorganizedintheclassichandbookformattohelpengineersandotherprofessionalswhoneedto getinformationaboutatopicquickly.TheTableofContentsandtheIndexcanbeusedsoreaderscangodirectly totheirtopicofinterest.Thehandbookformathasnointroductorychapter,andthemostfundamentalmaterialisin thefirstchaptersandappliedmaterialisinlaterchapters.Tohelpreadersgetinformationquickly,thechaptersdo notincludederivationsofequations.Unliketextbooks,someredundancyisneededinhandbookssothatthechap- ters can be relatively independent. This redundancy is minimized, and in some places readers are referred to another section or chapter for more information.This book includes all the information in my earlier smoke con- trolbooksplusanumberofothertopics,andtherearemanyexamplecalculations.Thishandbookcanbeusedasa textbook with the teacher selecting the chapters and parts of chapters to be taught. The only departure from the handbook format is that derivations of equations are in an appendix included to make the book more useful to scholars,teachers,andstudents. JohnH.Klote viii © 2012 ASHRAE (www.ashrae.org). For personal use only. Additional reproduction, distribution, or transmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAE's prior written permission. TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication vii HowtoUseThisBook viii Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxii NoteonSustainability xxiii CHAPTER1—UNITSANDPROPERTIES 1 DualUnits 1 TheSISystem 1 ChaptersinSIOnly 2 TemperatureConversion 3 TemperatureDifference 3 SoftandHardConversions 3 UnitConversionsforEquations 3 PhysicalData 8 U.S.StandardAtmosphere 8 Nomenclature 12 References 12 CHAPTER2—CLIMATICDESIGNDATA 13 ClimaticData 13 StandardBarometricPressure 14 WinterDesignTemperature 14 SummerDesignTemperature 14 DesignWind 14 References 105 CHAPTER3—FLOWOFAIRANDSMOKE 107 FlowEquations 107 OrificeFlowEquation 107 DensityofGases 108 ExponentialFlow 108 GapMethod 109 BidirectionalFlow 112 PressureDifference 112 ContinuousOpening 113 TwoOpenings 113 PressureLossesinShafts 114 DuctsandShafts 114 StairwellFlow 116 FlowAreas&Coefficients 116 ix

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The Handbook of Smoke Control Engineering extends the tradition of the comprehensive treatment of smoke control technology, including fundamental concepts, smoke control systems, and methods of analysis. The handbook provides information needed for the analysis of design fires, including considerati