- Author
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Mulholland, G. W.
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Liggett, W.
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Koseki, H.
- Title
- Effect of Pool Diameter on the Properties of Smoke Produced by Crude Oil Fires.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Fire Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Journal
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Fire Science and Technology,
Vol. 17,
No. Special Issue,
64-60,
1997
- Report
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NISTIR 6030
June 1997
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Book or Conf
- U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 13th Joint Panel Meeting. Volume 1. March 13-20, 1996,
Gaithersburg, MD,
Beall, K. A., Editors,
413-422 p.,
1997
- Keywords
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combustion
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crude oil
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carbon balance method
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fire research
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oil spills
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sphere sizes
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smoke production
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smoke yield
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spill fires
- Abstract
- The smoke production from the burning of crude oil was investigated for a 1m diameter pan and for a 2.7m x 2.7m pan, which is the largest pan used within a fire test facility for smoke characterization. The smoke yield, as measured two procedures both based on the carbon balance method, increased by about 50% as the pan size increased. Analysis of the smoke by transmission electron microscopy showed that the volume mean diameter of the primary spheres increased by about 80% as the pan size increased. These results are compared with other studies ranging in scale from a pool diameter as small as 8.5cm to those as large as the 12m crude oil "spill" fires and 100m pool fires set during the 1991 war in Kuwait.