An emissive power correlation for solid fuel packages

The most commonly used emissive power correlations were developed for pool fires. A literature search has been conducted to identify available empirical data sets that could be used to benchmark these correlations and to predict emissive power of fires involving wood and similar materials. Using the benchmark data, it has been demonstrated that pool-fire correlations underpredict the flame emissive power. With the identified data, a new emissive power correlation has been developed for solid fuel fires. The new correlation permits a more realistic representation of the flames associated with burning solid fuel packages.