Improved model for estimating sidewall effect on the fire heat release rate of horizontal cable tray

Author(s):  
Xianjia Huang ◽  
He Zhu ◽  
Le He ◽  
Lan Peng ◽  
Chihonn Cheng ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 1901-1913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis O. Olanrewaju ◽  
Hu Li ◽  
Gordon E. Andrews ◽  
Herodotos N. Phylaktou

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianjia Huang ◽  
He Zhu ◽  
Lan Peng ◽  
Zihui Zheng ◽  
Wuyong Zeng ◽  
...  

Electric cable fires in nuclear power plants could be disastrous and have to be studied carefully for safety and economic considerations. Based on the results of previous work on large-scale and bench-scale cable fire testing, the Flame Spread over Horizontal Cable Trays model was modified and improved to estimate the heat release rate of large-scale cable fires using bench-scale measured data. The heat release rate per unit area measured in the cone calorimeter experiment is taken as the input, to avoid introducing any prediction uncertainties caused by inconsistent values of the heat of combustion and char yield of the cable. Cable fire experiments with vertical stacks of trays with one to three layers of cables were conducted in open space to assess the accuracy of the improved model. In comparing with the experimental results, predictions using the improved model are encouraging. The local error of prediction is less than 15% and the global error lies between 19.2% and 35.7%. In addition, three cable tray fire experiments with data available in the literature were used to validate the improved model. It is shown that the improved model had good predictions for these cable tray fires.


2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Chen ◽  
L. Qu ◽  
Y. X. Yang ◽  
G. Q. Kang ◽  
W. K. Chow

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 3247
Author(s):  
Dong Hwan Kim ◽  
Chi Young Lee ◽  
Chang Bo Oh

In this study, the effects of discharge area and atomizing gas type in a twin-fluid atomizer on heptane pool fire-extinguishing performance were investigated under the heat release rate conditions of 1.17 and 5.23 kW in an enclosed chamber. Large and small full cone twin-fluid atomizers were prepared. Nitrogen and air were used as atomizing gases. With respect to the droplet size of water mist, as the water and air flow rates decreased and increased, respectively, the Sauter mean diameter (SMD) of the water mist decreased. The SMD of large and small atomizers were in the range of approximately 12–60 and 12–49 μm, respectively. With respect to the discharge area effect, the small atomizer exhibited a shorter extinguishing time, lower peak surface temperature, and higher minimum oxygen concentration than the large atomizer. Furthermore, it was observed that the effect of the discharge area on fire-extinguishing performance is dominant under certain flow rate conditions. With respect to the atomizing gas type effect, nitrogen and air appeared to exhibit nearly similar extinguishing times, peak surface temperatures, and minimum oxygen concentrations under most flow rate conditions. Based on the present and previous studies, it was revealed that the effect of atomizing gas type on fire-extinguishing performance is dependent on the relative positions of the discharged flow and fire source.


Fuel ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 288 ◽  
pp. 119656
Author(s):  
Robbert Willems ◽  
Frank Willems ◽  
Niels Deen ◽  
Bart Somers

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1622
Author(s):  
Daniel Romeo Kamta Legue ◽  
Zacharie Merlin Ayissi ◽  
Mahamat Hassane Babikir ◽  
Marcel Obounou ◽  
Henri Paul Ekobena Fouda

This study presents an experimental investigation and thermodynamic 0D modeling of the combustion of a compression-ignition engine, fueled by an alternative fuel based on neem biodiesel (B100) as well as conventional diesel (D100). The study highlights the effects of the engine load at 50%, 75% and 100% and the influence of the heat loss models proposed by Woschni, Eichelberg and Hohenberg on the variation in the cylinder pressure. The study shows that the heat loss through the cylinder wall is more pronounced during diffusion combustion regardless of the nature of the fuels tested and the load range required. The cylinder pressures when using B100 estimated at 89 bars are relatively higher than when using D100, about 3.3% greater under the same experimental conditions. It is also observed that the problem of the high pressure associated with the use of biodiesels in engines can be solved by optimizing the ignition delay. The net heat release rate remains roughly the same when using D100 and B100 at 100% load. At low loads, the D100 heat release rate is higher than B100. The investigation shows how wall heat losses are more pronounced in the diffusion combustion phase, relative to the premix phase, by presenting variations in the curves.


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