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Experimental Study of Radiation Heat Flux for the Pool and Spill Fire in Petroleum Storage Tanks  

Kim, Hong (Department of Safety System Engineering, Heseo University)
Park, Hyung-Ju (Department of Safety Engineering, Graduate School, Hoseo University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.19, no.1, 2004 , pp. 88-93 More about this Journal
Abstract
This experimental study was carried out to evaluate effect of the radiation heat flux for the pool and spill fire in petroleum storage tanks, which were made form steel. Each of them had the capacity of 250, 2500 and 25000 liter, respectively. The effects of the radiation heat flux are as follows; 1) The intensity of radiation heat flux from a flame decreased exponentially with increasing distance from outside wall of tanks, and increased significantly with surface area of tank and dyke. 2) In the case of 25000L tank, the radiation heat flux was about max. 98.9kW/$m^2$ in 1m from wall of tank. 3) The distance, that was able to ignite wood or plastics by radiation heat flux of approximately 12.5kW/$m^2$, was about 3.14m from wall of 25000L tank.
Keywords
radiation heat flux; pool fire; spill fire; full scale fire test;
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