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Fire safety distances for open pool fires

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Title Fire safety distances for open pool fires
 
Creator SUDHEER, S
KUMAR, L
MANJUNATH, BS
PASI, A
MEENAKSHI, G
PRABHU, SV
 
Subject Fire safe distances
Open pool fires
IR camera
Irradiance
Heat flux
 
Description Fire accidents that carry huge loss with them have increased in the previous two decades than at any time in the history. Hence, there is a need for understanding the safety distances from different fires with different fuels. Fire safety distances are computed for different open pool fires. Diesel, gasoline and hexane are used as fuels for circular pool diameters of 0.5 m, 0.7 m and 1.0 m. A large square pool fire of 4 m x 4 m is also conducted with diesel as a fuel. All the prescribed distances in this study are purely based on the thermal analysis. IR camera is used to get the thermal images of pool fires and there by the irradiance at different locations is computed. The computed irradiance is presented with the threshold heat flux limits for human beings. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
 
Date 2014-10-14T17:26:47Z
2014-10-14T17:26:47Z
2013
 
Type Article
 
Identifier INFRARED PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY, 61265-273
1350-4495
1879-0275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2013.09.006
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/14565
 
Language en