Fire is the most commonly occurring major accident hazard in chemical and process industries, with industry statistics highlighting liquid pool fire as frequent event. Modelling of such phenomena feeds heavily into risk assessment consequence analyses. Traditional simple empirical equations cannot account for full range factors influencing behaviour or increasingly complex plant design. The use...

The influence of the initial fuel temperature on the burning behavior of n-heptane pool fire was experimentally studied at the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science (SKLFS) large test hall. Circular pool fires with diameters of 100mm, 141 mm, and 200 mm were considered with initial fuel temperatures ranging from 290 K to 363 K. Burning rate and temperature distributions in fuel and vessel wall w...

Pool fires cause immense damage to fuel storage tank farms. Reduced fire escalation risk in farms improves safety. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has proven effective assessing of fire-related domino effects and is being utilized for pool consequences The past CFD-based analysis focused on primary secondary targets. This study used simulator (FDS) model complete evolution the effect under d...

Abstract Pool fires are frequently reported to trigger domino effects in oil storage farms and chemical factories. Fire plume is the vehicle of damage caused by pool fires. This study aims ullage height (distance between fuel surface upper rim) on fire flow combustion characteristics were conducted experimental numerical studies. Ullage heights systematically changed from zero value at which fl...

Liquid fuels(hydrocarbon and peroxide)are flammableand there is a risk of pool fires during their storage and transportation. In order to measure and develop effective methods for protection and considering safety distances, experimental studies and CFD simulations of pool fire of two hydrocarbon fuels (i.e. gasoline and kerosene) and peroxide (TBPB (tert-butyl peroxybenzoate)) were performed. ...

Fire behavior of four aliphatic and two aromatic C, H, O, N, S, and Cl atom containing polymers has been examined. Experiments were performed in three ASTM E 2058 Fire Propagation Apparatuses. The differences in the ignition behavior of polymers were found to be mainly due to differences in the ignition temperature. Chemical effects appear to contribute about 25 % towards the ignition resistanc...