BY KAREL LAMBERT
Within the scope of the course Postgraduate Studies in Fire Safety Engineering, I wrote a thesis on the use of power blowers for staircase ventilation.1 The project included a study of the literature and also experimental work, and this information produced the framework for a manual on ventilation. The ninth chapter discusses the various ventilator configuration possibilities and is the basis for this article.
Firefighters and the literature differ substantially on how ventilators should be configured. Two important factors play a role in this decision: the type of ventilator and the type of ventilation.
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