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Research Article

Full scale experimental and numerical studies on effect of ventilation in an enclosure diesel pool fire

Deepak Sahu1( ), Shashi Kumar1, Shorab Jain2, Akhilesh Gupta3
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee – 247667, Uttarakhand, India
Fire Research Division, CSIR—Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, Roorkee – 247667, Uttarakhand, India
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee – 247667, Uttarakhand, India
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Abstract

The compartment fires have been studied through full-scale experiments, which were conducted in a compartment of size 4 m × 4 m × 4 m with a door of size 2 m (height) × 1 m (width). Four different experiments were performed, in which the width of the door was varied. The diesel fuel pan of 60 cm diameter was placed in the center of compartment. The maximum heat release rates measured were 502, 564, 446 and 124 kW for Exp. 1, Exp. 2, Exp. 3 and Exp. 4 respectively. The average hot gas temperature in Exp. 1, Exp. 2, Exp. 3 and Exp. 4 were found to be 266, 328, 314, and 174 °C respectively. In Exp. 3, highest heat flux was found to be 13.6 kW at ceiling. Further, the numerical simulations were performed for Exp. 1 and Exp. 2 experimental condition using Fire Dynamics Simulator incorporating different mesh sizes.

Keywords

heat fluxventilationcompartment fireheat release ratediesel pool fire

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Building Simulation
Volume 10 Issue 3,
June 2017
Pages 351-364
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-016-0328-x
Cite this article:
Sahu D, Kumar S, Jain S, et al. Full scale experimental and numerical studies on effect of ventilation in an enclosure diesel pool fire. Building Simulation, 2017, 10(3): 351-364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-016-0328-x

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Received: 23 April 2016
Revised: 19 August 2016
Accepted: 21 September 2016
Published: 26 October 2016
© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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