Fire safety distances for open pool fires |
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| Institution: | 1. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mumbai 400076, India;2. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, RTD, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India;3. Centre for Fire, Environment and Explosive Safety, Delhi, India;1. State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China;2. Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China;3. China Ship Development and Design Center, Wuhan, Hubei, 430064, China;4. Institute of Research for Technology Development, College of Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506-0503, United States |
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| Abstract: | Fire accidents that carry huge loss with them have increased in the previous two decades than at any time in the history. Hence, there is a need for understanding the safety distances from different fires with different fuels. Fire safety distances are computed for different open pool fires. Diesel, gasoline and hexane are used as fuels for circular pool diameters of 0.5 m, 0.7 m and 1.0 m. A large square pool fire of 4 m × 4 m is also conducted with diesel as a fuel. All the prescribed distances in this study are purely based on the thermal analysis. IR camera is used to get the thermal images of pool fires and there by the irradiance at different locations is computed. The computed irradiance is presented with the threshold heat flux limits for human beings. |
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| Keywords: | Fire safe distances Open pool fires IR camera Irradiance Heat flux |
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