FireDOC Search

Author
Babrauskas, V.
Title
Pool Fires: Burning Rates and Heat Fluxes.
Coporate
National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Report
NFPA FPH 1686,
Book or Conf
Fire Protection Handbook. 16th Edition. Section 21. Chapter 6, National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA, Cote, A. E. and Linville, J. L., Editors, 21/36-42 p., 1986
Keywords
pool fires | burning rate | heat flux | flame chemistry | flame radiation | fluid mechanics
Identifiers
free pools; large pools
Abstract
Pool burning is probably the simplest form of combustion applicable to a wide range of industrial fire protection concrens. Typically, this is conceived of as a fire in an open topped, circular flammable liquid tank or as a bounded spill of combustible liquid. More generally, both liquefied gases andf melting plastics materials, horizontally placed, conform to the same pattern.