The development of a combined dual-pump coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and laser-induced incandescence (LII) instrument for the spatially resolved measurement of subgrid-scale temperature/soot data in liquid-fueled pool fires is discussed. Temperature pdfs obtained from the N2 Qbranch CARS signal at the center of a 2-m-diameter toluene/methanol pool fire are summarized. A more det...

The objective of this work is to quantitatively study the burning characteristics of thermoplastics. A new experimental setup with a T-shape trough is designed. Based on this setup, the loop mechanism between the wall fire and pool fires induced by the melting and dripping of thermoplastic can be well simulated and studied. Additionally, the flowing characteristics of pool fires can also be qua...

Three large open pool fire experiments involving a calorimeter the size of a spent fuel rail cask were conducted at Sandia National Laboratories’ Lurance Canyon Burn Site. These experiments were performed to study the heat transfer between a very large fire and a large cask-like object. In all of the tests, the calorimeter was located above the center of a 7.93m diameter fuel pan, elevated 1m a...

Fire whirls are powerful, spinning disasters for people and surroundings when they occur in large urban and wildland fires. Whereas fire whirls have been studied for fire-safety applications, previous research has yet to harness their potential burning efficiency for enhanced combustion. This article presents laboratory studies of fire whirls initiated as pool fires, but where the fuel sits on ...

This manuscript shows how the connection and interaction between a process dynamic simulator and a dynamic accident simulator allow improving operators training, accident investigation, and safety management, by better modeling the feedbacks existing among process units and accidental events. In this perspective, the manuscript presents a rather simplified case study that allows simulating the ...