- Author
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Evans, D. D.
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Pfenning, D. B.
- Title
- Water Sprays Suppress Gas-Well Blowout Fires.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Energy Analysts Inc., Norman, OK
- Journal
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Oil and Gas Journal,
Vol. 83,
No. 17,
80-86,
April 29, 1985
- Report
-
NIST SP 995; Volume 2
March 2003
- Keywords
-
water sprays
- Abstract
- Large-scale simulation tests were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of water spray systems to control and extinguish gas well blowout fires. Selected results from small-scale experiments performed in this research program are given primarily to help explain the development of the water spray extinguishment method, but also to examine scaling of important phenomena.