{"title":"Temperature Evolution Properties of Overhead Line Conductor Exposed to Large-scale Jet Fires Induced by High-pressure Natural Gas Leakage","authors":"Zhenhua Wang, Fei You, Juncheng Jiang, Yun Zhang, Kai Shui, Jixiang Xu, Zonglin Fu, Wenhao Huangfu","doi":"10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055856","url":null,"abstract":"A unified model was developed from leaked high-pressure natural gas (up to 6.55 MPa) and a procedure outlined in IEEE Standard 738–2012 for transmission line conductor temperature. A real-scale case was presented to show the thermal effects of a large-scale jet fire on the nearby transmission line by setting their distances from 200 to 500 m. The predicted total flame height and damage radius correspond to the reported results with appropriate correction of input parameters. Transmission lines with higher load currents and shorter distances to the jet fire induce higher temperature rises in line conductors. Reducing the current load of transmission line needs to integrate both factors of thermal failure of transmission line and economy of power system.","PeriodicalId":6687,"journal":{"name":"2019 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering (ICFSFPE)","volume":"433 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78465737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis on The Effectiveness of Detection and Alarm of Cable Corridor","authors":"Lei Lei, Zhiyuan Wang, Yuan Li","doi":"10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055788","url":null,"abstract":"For analyzing the effectiveness of fire detection alarm system in the underground pipe gallery, different types of detection alarm system (space detection and object detection) is installed in the model of L type and T type cable corridor. By changing fire source position and the environment air velocity, the writer compares the fire temperature field and smoke concentretion under different working conditions to the influence of detection alarm system effectiveness. The results show that when the corridor space structure is T-shaped, the detection system is more likely to get fire signal and alarm. When the position of the fire source changes, the fire source energy at the corner of the L-shaped tunnel is first monitored by the cable-type linear temperature detector. In the L-type tunnel, when the wind speed increases, the time of point-type temperature detector and cable-type linear temperature detector increases, and the wind speed keeps increasing, the point-type temperature detector fails to alarm. In the T-type tunnel, the time of point-type smoke detector and cable-type linear temperature detector increases as the wind speed increases.","PeriodicalId":6687,"journal":{"name":"2019 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering (ICFSFPE)","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78485598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Full-scale Experimental Study on Vertical Fire Spread Characteristics of Different Organic Insulation Systems","authors":"Shoujiang Wang, Wei Cong, Yongzheng Yao, Yong Zhou, Xudong Cheng","doi":"10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055823","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a series of full-scale experiments were carried out to study the vertical fire spread characteristics of EPS, PIR and PF insulation systems. The fire development process and the vertical temperature distribution of the main wall are analyzed. Results show that PIR and PF do not shrink and melt like EPS under fire conditions, but carbonization appears on the surface and form carbonized cracks. In the PIR carbonization crack, a strip-shaped combustion flame appears. But the PF does not show a burning flame at the carbonization crack, and the flame height is only half of the height of the main wall, and no combustion occurs in the auxiliary wall. Overall, the PF insulation system is superior to the PIR insulation system in overall fire resistance, and the EPS insulation system has the worst fire performance.","PeriodicalId":6687,"journal":{"name":"2019 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering (ICFSFPE)","volume":"114 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77783622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Extraction Vent Length on Critical Exhaust Volumetric Flow Rate in Long-distance Subway Tunnel Fires with Two-point Extraction Ventilation","authors":"Peng Zhao, Zhongyuan Yuan, Nanyang Yu","doi":"10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055802","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, point extraction ventilation mode is considered as a competitive alternative to control the smoke in the tunnel fire. The principle of point extraction ventilation is that sufficient exhaust volumetric flow rate is supplied to confine the smoke to an acceptable zone. However, the issue of an appropriate exhaust volumetric flow rate to confine the smoke to a safe zone has not been studied sufficiently. In this study, the critical exhaust volumetric flow rate to control the smoke to the zone between two extraction vents was proposed and a series of small-scale experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of extraction vent length on the critical exhaust volumetric flow rate. The heat release rate (HRR), extraction vent length and the distance between two vents varied during the tests. Smoke temperature below the ceiling and smoke configurations were measured and analyzed. Experimental results show that it is not the case that the longer the extraction vent, the smaller the critical exhaust volumetric flow rate. There exists a critical extraction vent length that is 0.1 m in the current study. Finally, an empirical equation was developed to predict the critical exhaust volumetric flow rate based on theoretical analysis. The coefficients in the equation were determined by experimental data. Compared with experimental data, it is obvious that the derived equation can well predict the critical exhaust volumetric flow rate. Research outcomes can provide some helpful references for the design of point extraction ventilation in the tunnel fire.","PeriodicalId":6687,"journal":{"name":"2019 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering (ICFSFPE)","volume":"222 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73352521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jixiang Xu, Fei You, Wenhao Huangfu, Kai Shui, Songtao Zhou, Zonglin Fu
{"title":"Characteristics and Mechanisms of Rod-Rod Electrode Gap Breakdown Induced by High-temperature and Clean Flame","authors":"Jixiang Xu, Fei You, Wenhao Huangfu, Kai Shui, Songtao Zhou, Zonglin Fu","doi":"10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055773","url":null,"abstract":"In order to investigate influence of high-temperature and intense flames derived from real wildfires on air gap breakdown properties around high voltage transmission lines, a rod-rod electrode breakdown-discharge test system under clean flame conditions was developed. After igniting ethanol, the gap between two copper rod electrodes was adjusted from 3.0 to 8.0 cm above and into the bulk flame, and dynamic charge load (from 0 to 50 kV) was applied externally to electrodes at each gap distance until there occurred breakdown across air gap. Evolution waveform and data of leaked current and instantaneous breakdown were recorded during the breakdown and discharge processes. Results show that under condition of high-temperature flame (750.0 °C~850.0 °C), breakdown voltages decrease by 55.7 %~68.3 % and 78.6 %~82.9 % when the flame is not bridged and bridged between two electrodes compared with those in pure air atmosphere. Under the action of a certain portion of flame plasma, insulating strength of rod-rod gap decreases significantly compared with that of pure air, which indicates that the high-temperature flame has a great influence on the formation and development of streamer, and is easier to form discharge channels.","PeriodicalId":6687,"journal":{"name":"2019 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering (ICFSFPE)","volume":"32 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77280768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tunnel Fire Suppression Tests with Water Mist Fire Extinguishing System Containing an Additive","authors":"Mingqiang Yan, Zejiang Zhang, Wei Liu, Yaqiang Jiang, Pingli Li, Meng Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055853","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the advantages of no pollution, rapid fire suppression, less water consumption, lower cost, and little damage to the object, water mist fire extinguishing system has been widely used in road tunnels. In order to improve the fire extinguishing performance of water mist fire extinguishing system, a water based extinguishing agent was used as additive and injected into the water mist fire extinguishing system at the proportion of 3%. The tunnel fire suppression tests were carried out, and the fire extinguishing performance of water mist fire extinguishing system under different longitudinal ventilation velocity and with and without additive were compared and analyzed. The results show that high pressure water mist system has good cooling and heat radiation blocking effect, and has good fire control and extinguishing effect for tunnel oil fire;the suitable additive can effectively improve the fire control and extinguishing effect of water mist extinguishing system used in road tunnel.","PeriodicalId":6687,"journal":{"name":"2019 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering (ICFSFPE)","volume":"7 3","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91463609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mingxuan Li, Xiujuan Mei, Bo Zhong, Chang-zheng Zhao, J. Xiong
{"title":"Small Scale Experimental Study on Backdraft","authors":"Mingxuan Li, Xiujuan Mei, Bo Zhong, Chang-zheng Zhao, J. Xiong","doi":"10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055838","url":null,"abstract":"Seven small scale experiments were carried out to research the critical threshold value for backdraft to occur. Backdraft experiment platform with 0.9 m length, 1.2 m width and 0.6 m height was built, based on the platform, wood cribs which was 0.3 m length, 0.3 m width and 0.3 m height, was used as fuel. Data of temperature, oxygen concentration, combustible gases concentration within the compartment were collected, IR camera was used to record the size and temperature of fireballs. Results show that the minimum concentration of combustible gases for backdraft to occur is about 11.6 percent vol in the seven tests, and carbon monoxide and hydrogen play very important parts, Sizes of fireballs are proportional to the concentration of combustible gases, more powerful fireballs can be observed when the concentration of combustible gases is greater, temperature of fireballs is more than 180 Celsius degree. The critical threshold value of backdraft are crucial indicators for backdraft, lives of fire fighters can be saved with better understanding of backdraft and equipment.","PeriodicalId":6687,"journal":{"name":"2019 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering (ICFSFPE)","volume":"47 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81804757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of States of Charge on the Burning Behaviors of Lithium ion Batteries","authors":"Lu-qing Rong, Xudong Cheng, Yangyang Fu","doi":"10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055886","url":null,"abstract":"The burning behaviors of 18650 type lithium ion batteries under various states of charge (SOCs) were investigated using a cone calorimeter under an incident heat flux of 50 kW/m2. Several parameters were measured, including heat release rate (HRR), time to ignition and concentration of toxic gases. The experimental results show that the peak HRR, concentration of CO2 and CO increase with the increasing SOCs, whereas the time to ignition, time to explosion and the released energy during the burning decrease. The 100 % SOC is the highest fire risk due to the most serious toxicity (CO concentration: 1500 ppm), the maximum HRR (2.78 kW) and the shortest time to ignition (43 s). Besides, the burning process of the lithium ion batteries with various SOCs could be divided into four phases and the SOCs show important influence on the combustion intensity. The HRR of the fully charged LIBs is fourth power of time, which is much higher than the time-squared fire model mentioned in NFPA for most combustibles. A correlation is developed to predict the peak HRR. This study could serve as a technical guide for safe storage, application, and transportation in lithium ion batteries.","PeriodicalId":6687,"journal":{"name":"2019 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering (ICFSFPE)","volume":"18 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81479397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yixiang Zhang, Jianlu Zhu, Cunyong Song, Yuxing Li, Hui Han
{"title":"Experimental Research on Burning Rate of Methane Pool Fires by Insulation and Crosswinds","authors":"Yixiang Zhang, Jianlu Zhu, Cunyong Song, Yuxing Li, Hui Han","doi":"10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055826","url":null,"abstract":"In order to study the effect of wall insulation conditions and different airflows on burning rate of pool fires, a small-scale ethanol pool fire was conducted experimentally under three pool diameters and a certain lip height in a wind tunnel. The results showed that the non-monotonic mass loss rate decreases first and then increases with the increase of crosswinds at a certain lip height. The burning rate increases with the increased pool diameter of the non-insulated pool fires, while an opposite trend of burning rate was found in insulated pool fires at the same sizes. The dimensionless characteristics of Richard number presents the variation relationship between the buoyancy force and momentum during different airflows. The insulated liquid pool showed a higher burning rate than that in a non-insulated pool with the characteristic parameter of reciprocal of Richard number less than 2. With the value of Richard number continue increased, the burning rate in the insulated pool fires decreased due to the difference between the increased crosswind and heat transfer. The mass loss rate of pool fires without insulation increased with the increase of pool diameter, while an opposite trend was found in insulated pool fires at the same size. The experimental data supported to establish a ratio coefficient of burning rate with or without insulation under different crosswinds.","PeriodicalId":6687,"journal":{"name":"2019 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering (ICFSFPE)","volume":"86 5 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86498613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spontaneous Ignition of Thermally Thin and Intermediate PMMA Exposed to Linearly Increasing Thermal Radiation","authors":"Mingrui Zhang, Chunjie Zhai, Junhui Gong","doi":"10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFSFPE48751.2019.9055870","url":null,"abstract":"Spontaneous ignition characteristics of thermally thin and thermally intermediate PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) under linearly increasing heat flux (HF) are experimentally studied in this work utilizing a heating apparatus capable of flexibly controlling the radiation intensity. Ignition time, critical temperature, surface and in-depth temperatures of 1.5 and 6 mm PMMA at six sets of HFs were recorded in the tests. The corresponding measured values are estimated by numerical simulations considering the thermal decomposition of solid and insulation layer, and critical temperature is used as the ignition criterion. The results shown that the influences of insulation layer and solid pyrolysis on surface temperature are limited and significant, respectively. Thinner sample and larger HF growth rate lead to higher ignition temperature and shorter ignition time. Two stages are identified according to pyrolysis temperature prior to ignition. The measured critical temperature is 695.53 ± 16 K. Nonetheless, a more reasonable uncertainty range ± 30 K is suggested to interpret the variation of measured ignition time based on the simulation results.","PeriodicalId":6687,"journal":{"name":"2019 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering (ICFSFPE)","volume":"86 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85874910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}