A combined overall and surface energy balance for fully-developed ventilation-controlled liquid fuel fires in compartments

Bullen, M.L.

doi:10.1016/0379-7112(78)90003-6

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“…It can be seen that for these 1/2 test conditions, the ratio for m/A H has a constant coefficient of 5/2 °°0.112 kg/m s, which is approximately 24 percent greater than the conventional value of 0.09 kg/m^^s derived from the burning of wood-like materials [12,13].…”

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Fire development in residential basement rooms

Fang¹,

Breese²

1980

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A multi-phase study program has been established to develop a rational test procedure for evaluating the fire resistance of residential floor assemblies.The first phase of this research program was aimed at characterizing the severity of fires originating in residential rooms and developing a specified set of fire exposure conditions applicable for fire resistance testing of floor constructions.A total of 16 burnout tests were conducted to investigate the fire behavior in typical residential recreation rooms of single family houses. These fire tests were usually run for one hour and were performed in two instrumented test rooms, 3.3 x 3.3 x 2.4 m and 3.3 x 4.9 x 2.4 m in width, length, and height respectively, furnished with household furniture and lined with interior finish materials typical of actual occupancies. Measurements were made of the temperature, heat flux, static pressure, smoke density, gas velocity, species concentration, and oxygen consumption.The effects of such parameters as the ventilation, fire load density, initial item ignited, room size, and thermal and flammable properties of the wall and ceiling materials on the fire severity were evaluated quantitatively. A fire exposure temperature-time curve which is different from the ASTM E 119 curve, has been developedfor testing the fire resistance of such building structures.

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Fire development in residential basement rooms

Fang¹,

Breese²

1980

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“…Bullen [5] [7] conducted an experimental and theoreticaI study of methanol pool fires and derived a conclusion similar to that of the present study, but from different premises. By considering only eonvective modes of heat transfer and assuming a single-step Arrhenius reactian rate, they demonstrated that there is an upper and Iower limit to the window opening factor…”

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“…Let 1] be the ratio of air supply to fuel area divided by that same quotient at stoichiometry, as (5) and is a property of the fueJ de!ermined hy its chemical compositioll. When combined with the equation for ,il p , this gives (3) (6) A stoichiometric air/fueJ mass ratio can be deffned then 77 = l represents a stoichiometric air suppJy.…”

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Thermoplastic pool compartment fires

Babrauskas

Wickström²

1979

Combustion and Flame

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“…Figure8. Comparison of modeled wall temperature vs. experimentally measured west wall temperatures: effects of gas emissivity.…”

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Modeling the Impact of Post-Flashover Shipboard Fires On Adjacent Spaces

White

Beyler

Scheffey

et al. 1999

Journal of Fire Protection Engineering

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Post-flashover fires in shipboard spaces have pronounced effects on adjacent spaces due to highly conductive boundaries. A model has been developed which predicts the thermal environment in such spaces. The model is based on radiative and convective heat transfer involving the hot wall (common boundary between post-flashover and adjacent space), the cold walls, and a gray gas. This theoretical description is reduced to a set of simultaneous non-linear equations that are solved by a Newton-Rapheson method. Experimental data provided the input function for the hot wall, and the model predictions for the gas temperature and the cold wall temperature have been compared with the experimental data. The comparisons shown are conservative, but representative, in accordance with modeling assumptions.

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A combined overall and surface energy balance for fully-developed ventilation-controlled liquid fuel fires in compartments

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Fire development in residential basement rooms

Fire development in residential basement rooms

Thermoplastic pool compartment fires

Modeling the Impact of Post-Flashover Shipboard Fires On Adjacent Spaces

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