Defining the Difference Between Backdraft and Smoke ...
Sep 22, 2014 · This project discusses scale live-fire experiments in replicating a smoke explosion, provides explanations of backdrafts and smoke explosions, and compares smoke explosions …
Defining the Difference between Backdraft and Smoke ...
Jan 1, 2013 · This paper describes the experimental results from the smoke explosion research and compares the smoke explosion to the more familiar phenomena known as backdraft.
Backdraft and Smoke Explosion: Part 1 – Command Competence
NFPA 921 has over multiple revisions has indicated that backdraft and smoke explosion are the same thing. The current edition of NFPA 911 provides the following definition “see 3.3.19, …
Differentiating the “Fireground Phenomena” - Fire Behavior ...
Mar 1, 2020 · Some references, such as the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), recognize a smoke explosion as a backdraft, but there are some differences between the two, …
Learn about Smoke Explosions and Backdrafts - FSRI
Jul 29, 2021 · Smoke explosions and backdrafts are somewhat rare, but are potentially deadly events. Understanding the conditions needed to reliably generate smoke explosions provides …
Extreme Fire Behavior: Smoke Explosion - Firehouse
Apr 17, 2006 · In the case of both backdraft and smoke explosion, smoke is the fuel. However, the other sides of the fire triangle are quite different. To this point, we have examined the …
Backdraft - Wikipedia
Due to pressure differences, puffs of smoke are sometimes drawn back into the enclosed space from which they emanated, which is how the term backdraft originated.