Smoke Control Session II:  Design Fires, Atrium Control and Tenability Systems

This seminar is intended for fire protection engineers and mechanical engineers who design smoke control systems. This seminar is for both beginning engineers and experienced engineers who need to be up to date with the advances in this technology. The seminar will also be of benefit to design project managers, manufacturers of equipment for air moving systems and code officials who need an understanding of this technology.

This one-day session includes design fires, smoke plume mechanics, and types of atrium smoke control systems. The special topics of make-up air, minimum smoke layer depth, plugholing, and pre-stratification are addressed. Methods of analysis, including algebraic equations, zone fire models, scale modeling and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are discussed. Tenability analysis is addressed. A case study of atrium smoke control is included.

Participants should bring a copy of the book “Principles of Smoke Management” which is available from SFPE. The handout material for each session will include the course slides, case studies, and reference list.