This document specifies requirements and makes recommendations for sampling systems for use in small-scale and large-scale fire tests, for the selection of parameters and use of the FTIR instrument, and for the collection and use of calibration spectra.


The primary purpose of the methods outlined in this document is to measure the concentrations of chemical species in fire effluents which can be used to:


a)       provide data for use in combustion toxicity assessment without requiring biological studies;


b)       allow the calculation of yield data in fire characterization studies;


c)        provide data for use in mathematical modelling of hazard to life from the fire effluent by characterizing the effluent composition generated by physical fire models;


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