- Author
- Evans, D. D. | Walton, W. D. | Notarianni, K. A. | Baum, H. R. | Tennyson, E. J.
- Title
- Burning of Large Oil Spills.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Minerals Management Service, Reston, VA Department of the Interior, Washington, DC American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC Coast Guard, Washington, DC Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
- Book or Conf
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Large Fires: Causes and Consequences. Extended Abstracts. SFPE Engineering Seminars. November 16-18, 1992, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Boston, MA, Dallas, TX, 34-39 p., 1992
- Keywords
- oil spills | crude oil | water | experiments | burning rate | smoke yield | regression rate
- Identifiers
- smoke trajectory; deposition
- Abstract
- Laboratory and mesoscale pool fire experiments with effective diameters from 0.4 to 17 m were conducted to obtain relevant data on the characteristics of burning crude oil on water. These experiments showed that the burning rate of the larger diameter fires in terms of the surface regression rate was 0.055 ± 0.01 mm/s. The large crude oil pool fires emitted approximately 13 percent of the fuel burned as smoke particulate. Calculations of the smoke plume trajectory and smoke particulate settling showed that for a large pool fire that smoke deposition occurs over a narrow band stretching for over 100 km from the source.