- Author
- Koseki, H. | Kokkala, M. | Mulholland, G. W.
- Title
- Experimental Study of Boilover in Crude Oil Fires.
- Coporate
- Fire Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan VTT, Espoo, Finland National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- International Association for Fire Safety Science. Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. 3rd International Symposium. July 8-12, 1991, Elsevier Applied Science, New York, Edinburgh, Scotland, Cox, G.; Langford, B., Editors, 865-874 p., 1991
- Keywords
- fire research | fire safety | fire science | crude oil | kerosene | thermal radiation | burning rate | boilover
- Identifiers
- boilover; hot zones
- Abstract
- An experimental study of boilover phenomena in connection with crude oil and kerosene pool fires was carried out in the large scale test facilities of the Fire Research Institute of Japan. Arabian light crude oil was burned in steel pans ranging from a circular one with a diameter of 0.3 m to a square one with a 2.7 m side. An oil layer of 10 mm to 100 mm was floating on water in the pans. The intensity of boilover was found to increase with increasing fuel thickness. An almost tnefold increase in the amount of unburned residue was found to occur as the layer thickness was increased from 40 mm to 50 mm. Results of measurements of liquid and gas temperatures, burning rates and radiative heat outputs are reported.