NIST Releases 'Positive Pressure Ventilation' DVD
July 8, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers recently released "Positive Pressure Ventilation Research: Videos & Reports" by Stephen Kerber and Daniel Madrzykowski, a free, two-disk DVD set that demonstrates how positive pressure ventilation (PPV), a technique in which powerful fans force smoke and heat from corridors and stairwells, can increase the effectiveness of firefighters and survivability of occupants in high-rise structures.
The DVD collection of PPV videos, reports and a narrated slide presentation are the result of more than six years of NIST PPV experiments and computer simulations. A user-friendly graphic menu allows simple access to all the videos of the high-rise experiments.
Users can also select single and multi-camera views of events in the rooms of the different apartments.
The multimedia presentations, as well as the extensive discussion of appropriate PPV techniques for different high-rise building fires, makes the DVD set a useful tool for firefighter training.
NIST's PPV work was supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate and the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), as well as by fire departments across the country.
To receive a copy, send a request with a name and mailing address via e-mail to Yalasha Redd at yalasha.redd@nist.gov or Steve Kerber at skerber@nist.gov.
Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).