- Author
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McCaffrey, B. J.
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Harkleroad, M. F.
- Title
- Combustion Efficiency, Radiation, CO and Soot Yield From a Variety of Gaseous, Liquid, and Solid Fueled Buoyant Diffusion Flames.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Maryland Univ., Baltimore
- Sponsor
- Department of the Interior, Washington, DC
Minerals Management Service, Reston, VA
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion, 22nd. August 14-19, 1988,
Seattle, WA,
1251-1261 p.,
1988
- Keywords
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diffusion flames
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combustion
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radiation
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carbon monoxide
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soot
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free burning fires
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flame temperature
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boilover
- Abstract
- The following compliation of data describes combustion conditions for the free burning of propane, heptane, 3 crude oils, wood and polyurethane cribs in fuel package size less than a meter, having heat release rates up to 1/2 MS. Measurements include heat release rate from O2 depletion calorimetry, mass loss rate, incident radiative flux to nearby targets, flame and liquid interface tempeatures and overall major gaseous species yeild including soot. The information contained herein provides a data base for buoyant diffusion flame modelling regarding radiation and elementary chemical characterization. There appears to be a one-to-one correspondence between a fuels radiative behavior and its soot and CO yield. Urethanes and crude oil have significantly higher values for all these parameters as comapred to propane, heptane and wood. No correlation was found between these measurements and time-averaged thermocouple readings of temperature.