scholarly journals Radiative Heat Flux of a Burning Crude Oil Tank to the Adjacent Tank under the Conditions of Varied Wind Flows

2019 ◽  
Vol 1300 ◽  
pp. 012030
Author(s):  
Feng Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Crude Oil ◽  
Radiative Heat ◽  
Radiative Heat Flux ◽  
Oil Tank ◽  
Wind Flows

CFD Study of a Fire Whirl of Huge Oil Tank: Burning Rate, Flame Length, Distributions of n-Heptane and Oxygen in a Fire Whirl

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koyu Satoh ◽  
Naian Liu ◽  
Xiaodong Xie ◽  
Wei Gao
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Radiative Heat ◽  
Flame Length ◽  
Radiative Heat Flux ◽  
Cfd Simulations ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Burning Rates ◽  
Oil Tank ◽  
Fire Whirl ◽  
Oil Tanks

The number of huge oil storage tanks is increasing in the world. If a fire occurs in one of these tanks, it is very difficult to suppress. Additionally, if a fire whirl occurs in an oil tank fire, it is extremely dangerous for firefighters to extinguish the fire. The authors have numerically studied huge fire whirls in a large oil tank depot and predicted the generation of those fire whirls. Here, another study is attempted to clarify the details of huge fire whirl in a large oil tank, using two kinds of fire whirl generation channels in CFD simulations using the software, FDS by NIST. Details of burning rates, velocities of whirling flames, radiative heat flux, heat release rates and whirling cycles are examined, using oil tanks with the diameters of 0.2 to 80 m. In oil tanks with a diameter of 80 m, a tall fire whirl is generated. The height is about 1000 m. In this study of oil tanks fires with small to large diameters, it has been found that fire whirl lengths are about 8 to 11 times of the oil tank diameter. The maximum radiative heat flux due to a fire whirl in 80 m diameter oil tanks exceeds 100 kW/m2. Since the maximum radiation is found at twice the distance of oil tank diameters from the tank centers, adjacent oil tanks may be ignited. This study has also examined a method used to prevent fire whirl generation in huge oil tanks.

Nonequilibrium radiative heat flux modeling for the Huygens entry probe

2006 ◽  
Vol 111 (E7) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Magin ◽  
L. Caillault ◽  
A. Bourdon ◽  
C. O. Laux
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Radiative Heat ◽  
Radiative Heat Flux ◽  
Entry Probe

Handling of Collimated Irradiation on a Plane-Parallel Participating Medium

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Proulx ◽  
Daniel R. Rousse ◽  
Rodolphe Vaillon ◽  
Jean-François Sacadura
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Monte Carlo Method ◽  
Radiative Heat ◽  
Radiative Heat Flux ◽  
Scattering Media ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Plane Parallel ◽  
Collimated Beam ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract This article presents selected results of a study comparing two procedures for the treatment of collimated irradiation impinging on one boundary of a participating one-dimensional plane-parallel medium. These procedures are implemented in a CVFEM used to calculate the radiative heat flux and source. Both isotropically and anisotropically scattering media are considered. The results presented show that both procedures provide results in good agreement with those obtained using a Monte Carlo method, when the collimated beam impinges normally.

Partitioning measurements of convective and radiative heat flux

2015 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 827-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Vega ◽  
Rachel A. Wasson ◽  
Brian Y. Lattimer ◽  
Thomas E. Diller
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Radiative Heat ◽  
Radiative Heat Flux

Spectral Radiative Heat Transfer Analysis of the Planar SOFC

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Damm ◽  
Andrei G. Fedorov
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Fuel Cells ◽  
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells ◽  
Radiative Heat Transfer ◽  
Radiative Heat ◽  
Solid Oxide ◽  
Radiative Properties ◽  
Radiative Heat Flux ◽  
Oxide Fuel

Thermo-mechanical failure of components in planar-type solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) depends strongly on the local temperature gradients at the interfaces of different materials. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to accurately predict the temperature fields within the stack, especially near the interfaces. Because of elevated operating temperatures (of the order of 1000 K or even higher), radiation heat transfer could become a dominant mode of heat transfer in the SOFCs. In this study, we extend our recent work on radiative effects in solid oxide fuel cells (Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 124, No. 2, pp. 453–458) by accounting for the spectral dependence of the radiative properties of the electrolyte material. The measurements of spectral radiative properties of the polycrystalline yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte we performed indicate that an optically thin approximation can be used for treatment of radiative heat transfer. To this end, the Schuster-Schwartzchild two-flux approximation is used to solve the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the spectral radiative heat flux, which is then integrated over the entire spectrum using an N-band approximation to obtain the total heat flux due to thermal radiation. The divergence of the total radiative heat flux is then incorporated as a heat sink into a 3-D thermo-fluid model of a SOFC through the user-defined function utility in the commercial FLUENT CFD software. The results of sample calculations are reported and compared against the baseline cases when no radiation effects are included and when the spectrally gray approximation is used for treatment of radiative heat transfer.

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