- Author
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Yilmaz, A.
- Title
- Radiation Transport Measurements in Methanol Pool Fires With Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy.
- Coporate
- Maryland Univ., College Park
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NIST GCR 09-922,
January 2009,
138 p.
- Keywords
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pool fires
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FT-IR
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methanol
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heat transfer
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equations
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combustion
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absorption
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experiments
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spectroscopy
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fuel supply
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temperature measurements
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vapor phases
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transmission
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mass burns
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burning rate
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gas chromatography
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carbon dioxide
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carbon monoxide
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radiative heat transfer
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spectral absorptivity
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flame structure
- Identifiers
- optical arrangement and diagnostics; alignment; intensity spectra; absorbance spectra; correction of time-dependent instrument responses; calculation of species concentrations; description of the concentration profile solver; results of the concentration profile solver; table of infrared bands used for species analysis of methanol pool fire; wavenumber regions used for CO and CO2 when solved independently
- Abstract
- Pool fires rely on heat feedback from the combustion process to the liquid surface to vaporize the fuel. This coupled relationship determines the fuel burning rate and thus the fire structure and size. Radiative heat transfer is the dominant heat feedback in large pool fires. Species concentrations and temperatures have large influence on the radiative heat transfer in the fuel rich-core between the flame and the pool surface. To study radiative transport in the fuel-rich core, an experimental method was developed to measure spectral absorption through various pathlengths inside a 30 cm diameter methanol pool fire by using a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer with N2 purged optical probes. The measured spectra are used to estimate species concentration profiles of methanol, CO, and CO2 in the fuel rich core by fitting predictions of a spectrally resolved radiation transport model to the measured spectra. Results show the importance of reliable temperature measurements for fitting the data and the need for further measurements to further understand the structure of fuel rich cores in pool fires.