• Title/Summary/Keyword: Flame spread speed

Search Result 15, Processing Time 0.021 seconds

Flammability case study of the subway investing materials (지하철 역사 및 전동차 광고물의 연소특성 조사)

  • Lee Duck-Hee;Lee Cheul Kyu;Jung Woo-Sung;Kim Sun-ok;Back Min;Cho Hee ki
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
    • /
    • 2005.05a
    • /
    • pp.132-137
    • /
    • 2005
  • In this study we investigated the materials which locate in the subway station and train cars. We checked the flammability of the materials such as the signboard, newspaper, wide color film etc. We reported some kind of the data such as oxygen index, optical smoke density, surface flame spread speed for that materials. We hope this data will be help to decide the guideline for such materials.

  • PDF

A Study on Concurrent Fire Appearance through Openings (개구부를 통한 동시다발적인 화재성상에 관한 연구)

  • Min, Se-Hong;Lee, Jae-Moon
    • Fire Science and Engineering
    • /
    • v.26 no.2
    • /
    • pp.90-96
    • /
    • 2012
  • Since vertical flame spread speed on exterior materials is much faster than horizontal fire, analysis of its fire characteristic is required. For the study of vertical fire pattern created by penetrating windows or openings from the exterior wall of buildings, the research is based on the fire simulation for an aluminum-complex-panel with which is commonly used as exterior materials and consists of polyethylene core material. As a result, the flame reaches the 2nd floor after 135 seconds in the early stage of fire, the 10the floor after 470 seconds and the 30th floor, the highest floor, after 711 seconds. The result shows that fire spread abruptly expands on upper floor due to stack effect of a turbulent flow or exterior materials. In consequence, we can confirm a serious problem that a conflagration of a building through an opening that is equipped with the exterior-materials spreads into interior of building at that same time.

Study on the Fire Behavior of Spring Bed Mattress with and Without a Cooling Frame (냉각프레임 설치 유무에 따른 스프링 침대 매트리스의 화재성상에 관한 연구)

  • Seo, Bo-Youl;Park, Kye-Won;Hong, Won-Hwa
    • Fire Science and Engineering
    • /
    • v.32 no.2
    • /
    • pp.24-29
    • /
    • 2018
  • To improve the fire safety of spring bed mattress, a cooling frame including cooling material (water) was made and a cooling frame was installed under the bed mattress or between the bed mattress and bed mattress base; fire tests (real scale) were conducted with or without a cooling frame. Similar fire behavior was observed at the beginning of the test (approximately 3 minutes). Subsequently, rapid fire growth in the mattress without a cooling frame, but with a cooling frame, the decline progressed without growth. The flame spread on the top surface of the bed mattress was similar in the semicircular direction, and the average flame speed velocity was analyzed at approximately 0.005 m/s. The maximum flame height was found to be approximately 2.7 m without a cooling frame, and approximately 1.8 m with a cooling frame installed. In addition, the maximum heat release rate was measured to be approximately 740 kW without a cooling frame, and approximately 400 kW with a cooling frame installed. As a result, the flame height and heat release rate were reduced when the bed mattress was fired through the installed cooling frame.

Characteristics of ignition and micro-explosion for droplets of water-in-fuel emulsion (유화액적 연료의 점화와 미소폭발의 특성)

  • Jeung, Incheol;Lee, Kyung-Hwan
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
    • /
    • v.37 no.1
    • /
    • pp.1-8
    • /
    • 2013
  • The water-in-fuel droplets were applied to investigate the effect of mixing ratio between water and decane, ambient temperature, droplet size and spacing between droplets on ignition and micro-explosion in a heated chamber with high temperature. The ignition temperature of droplet was found lower as the droplet size was increased and the contents of water was decreased. The life time of droplet, however, decreases as the contents of water increases due to the micro-explosion. The occurrence of micro-explosion also increases as the size of droplets and the ambient temperature increase. The flame spread speed gets faster as the contents of water and the number of suspender decreases.

The interaction between helium flow within supersonic boundary layer and oblique shock waves

  • Kwak, Sang-Hyun;Iwahori, Yoshiki;Igarashi, Sakie;Obata, Sigeo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
    • /
    • 2004.03a
    • /
    • pp.75-78
    • /
    • 2004
  • Various jet engines (Turbine engine family and RAM Jet engine) have been developed for high speed aircrafts. but their application to hypersonic flight is restricted by principle problems such as increase of total pressure loss and thermal stress. Therefore, the development of next generation propulsion system for hypersonic aircraft is a very important subject in the aerospace engineering field, SCRAM Jet engine based on a key technology, Supersonic Combustion. is supposed as the best choice for the hypersonic flight. Since Supersonic Combustion requires both rapid ignition and stable flame holding within supersonic air stream, much attention have to be given on the mixing state between air stream and fuel flow. However. the wider diffusion of fuel is expected with less total pressure loss in the supersonic air stream. So. in this study the direction of fuel injection is inclined 30 degree to downstream and the total pressure of jet is controlled for lower penetration height than thickness of boundary layer. Under these flow configuration both streams, fuel and supersonic air stream, would not mix enough. To spread fuel wider into supersonic air an aerodynamic force, baroclinic torque, is adopted. Baroclinic torque is generated by a spatial misalignment between pressure gradient (shock wave plane) and density gradient (mixing layer). A wedge is installed in downstream of injector orifice to induce an oblique shock. The schlieren optical visualization from side transparent wall and the total pressure measurement at exit cross section of combustor estimate how mixing is enhanced by the incidence of shock wave into supersonic boundary layer composed by fuel and air. In this study non-combustionable helium gas is injected with total pressure 0.66㎫ instead of flammable fuel to clarify mixing process. Mach number 1.8. total pressure O.5㎫, total temperature 288K are set up for supersonic air stream.

  • PDF