- Author
- Evans, D. D. | Pfenning, D. B.
- Title
- Water Sprays Suppress Gas-Well Blowout Fires.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD Energy Analysts Inc., Norman, OK
- Journal
- 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.