- Author
- Ingason, H.
- Title
- Experimental Study of Rack Storage Fires.
- Coporate
- SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Boras, Sweden
- Report
- SP Report 2001:19, 2001, 32 p.
- Distribution
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- Keywords
- pallet storage | heat release rate | plumes | temperature | velocity | fire growth | sprinklers | data analysis
- Identifiers
- in-rack plume; in-rack flame height; in-rack thermal plume; in-rack sprinkler
- Abstract
- This report describes an experimental study of rack storage fires with in-rack sprinklers. Four large-scale tests with Standard Class n commodity, which consists of double triwall corrugated paper cartons, were carried out. Two fast response inrack sprinkler heads were mounted in the flue at two heights. Measurements of heat release rate, in-rack flame height, excess gas temperature, gas velocity, plume profiles and activation times of the in-rack sprinklers are presented. Comparison of the measured data against axi-symmetric power law correlations for the in-rack plume flow was carried out.