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Study on the Ignition of Fallen Leaves by a Cigarette Butt  

Kim, Dong-Hyun (국립산림과학원 산림보전부 산림방재연구과)
Lee, Myung-Bo (국립산림과학원 산림보전부 산림방재연구과)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.24, no.5, 2010 , pp. 39-49 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to find out the environment vulnerable to cigarette fire in which smoldering fire grows into flame fire, a cigarette combustion test and numerical analysis were performed using fallen leaves of P. densiflora and Q. variabilis. Tests were repeated five times on 2,304 conditions with four cases of fuel moisture content, six cases of velocity, two cases of cigaret location against direction of the wind, three cases of cigaret location against fallen leaves, two species of thickness of cigaret, two cases of slope conditions and two cases of fragileness of fallen leaves. Cigaret fire's flammability to the fallen leaves was monitored by analyzing heat transfer process using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamic) under the most optimal condition through an ignition test on 2,304 conditions. The result of a cigaret fire ignition test for fallen leaves, found ignition in 197 conditions out of 2,304 conditions representing 8.6% while 13 conditions representing approximately 0.6% saw ignition across five repeated tests. The result of CFD analysis, the temperature of the bottom of fallen leaves was reached on self-ignition and pilot-ignition temperature.
Keywords
Forest fire; Cigarette; Smoldering fire; Combustion test;
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