- Author
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Elam, S. K.
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Tokura, I.
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Saito, K.
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Altenkirch, R. A.
- Title
- Prediction of Thermal Conductivity of Crude Oil for Use in Oil-Slick Combustion Modelling.
- Coporate
- Kentucky Univ., Lexington
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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Paper 3,
- Contract
- NBS-GRANT-60NANB7D0739
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. Final Report. Volume 1. Papers Presented at Conferences and Submitted for Publication. Volume 2. Experimental Developments in the Combustion of Crude Oils. August 1, 1987-December 15, 1988, Saito, K. Editor(s), 186 pp, 1988. and Combustion Institute/Central States Section. May 2-3, 1988, Indianapolis, IN, 339-344 pp, 1988.,
- Keywords
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crude oil
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thermal conductivity
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combustion models
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hydrocarbons
- Abstract
- In modelling studies of crude-oil-slick fires, the thermal conductivity of the oil is needed, but to the best of our knowledge, such data are not generally available. Thermal conductivity values for some pure, low-molecular-weight liquid hydrocarbons can be found, but crude oil is a mixture of a large number of rather heavy hydrocarbons. It is difficult then to determine thermal conductivity values for curde oil using data for pure compounds and the correlations available for determining the thermal conductivity of liquid mixtures.