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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2015.29.4.073

Investigation on the Field Application of the Flammable Limit of Vaporized Gasoline  

Kang, Jung Ki (Supreme Prosecutors' Office)
You, Woo Jun (Korea Fire Institute of Industrial & Technology)
Choi, Don-Mook (Dept. of Fire & Disaster Protection Engineering Graduate School, Gachon Univ.)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.29, no.4, 2015 , pp. 73-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, the conditions of explosion range of gasoline, which is used as combustion improver, are experimentally analyzed. Two types of compartment, which is the small scale ($0.5m{\times}0.5m{\times}1.0m$) and the middle scale ($0.5m{\times}0.5m{\times}1.0m$), are mocked-up and the auto-control systems are installed in order to measure the vaporized gasoline and the moment of pressure, ignition time and maximum pressure. In case the maximum flammable limit of gasoline is up to 22.4 Vol% not the generalized range of 1.4~7.6 Vol% when nichrome igniter of $700^{\circ}C$ is used. These results can be appled to the analytical prediction of fire identification in the field of explosion.
Keywords
Gasoline; Explosion; Combustion improver; Flammable limit; Maximum pressure;
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