In their paper "Nonconventional Fully Developed Polyethene and Wood Compartment Fires" [1], B6hm and Hadvig describe an experimental program examining fully developed compartment fires with polyethene as the dominant fuel. They also outline the procedure they developed to simulate numerically the fire process and to determine the gas temperature-time curve. In the course of their paper, the authors critically examine the work carried out by Thelandersson and the writer, now almost 15 years ago, on wood fuel fires . They quite correctly identify some minor inaccuracies of limited practical importance for the final result. Their main objection, however, is that our simulation procedure was based on the assumption of complete combustion inside the fire compartment, leading to gas temperature-time curves of too high values and to an unnecessarily conservative design. They tentatively propose that our design curves could be used with the design fuel load put equal to 70% of the nominal load level.
Since there is ongoing and very active work under the auspices of CIB/W14 to arrive at internationally accepted design rules (see, e.g., ), and since the writer does not concur with the recommendation given above, the following comments are given on the B6hm-Hadvig paper.
Of our work, B~flhm and Hadvig refer to the first publication [2] (their Ref. ) and the simulation procedure presented therein. In two follow-up publications, [3] and [4], the matter of incomplete combustion was looked into. It was concluded that for the majority of the tests analyzed