TY - JOUR A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter T1 - Decomposition effects on the mass burning rate of organic peroxide pool fires JF - Journal of loss prevention in the process industries N2 - The mass burning rate of pool fires of organic peroxides do not vary appreciably with the pool size as have been observed for the hydrocarbons. Instead the decomposition temperature largely controls the same. The dependence of mass burning rate on the decomposition temperatures namely self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT) and extrapolated onset temperature measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) for organic peroxide pool fires are identified and correlations are developed. KW - Decomposition KW - SADT KW - Pool fire KW - Mass burning rate KW - Organic peroxides KW - DSC PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2011.06.014 SN - 0950-4230 SN - 1873-3352 VL - 25 IS - 1 SP - 224 EP - 226 PB - Butterworth CY - Guildford, Surrey AN - OPUS4-25020 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter T1 - Diffusive burning of blended peroxy-fuels: Some experimental results JF - Fuel processing technology N2 - Dampening of energetic properties and the effects of blending proportions of isododecane on the diffusive burning behaviour of peroxy-fuels are experimentally studied. Blended peorxy-fuels are obtained by adding isododecane in the proportions of 25 wt.%, 50 wt.% and 75 wt.%, respectively, in technical pure peroxy-fuels. The fuels were burned in form of pool fires with diameters 0.02 m ≤ d ≤ 1 m. The mass burning rates and relative flame lengths are found to be weakened with increasing diluent proportions. By measuring the mass burning rates and visible flame lengths of pool fires of different samples of fuel blends an optimum blending criterion is developed. Furthermore, it is shown that the dilution proportions and flame characteristics can be correlated by empirical equations. KW - Peroxy-fuels KW - Blends KW - Isododecan KW - Pool fire KW - Mass burning rate KW - Flame length PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2015.06.014 SN - 0016-2361 SN - 0378-3820 SN - 1873-7153 VL - 140 SP - 324 EP - 330 PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-34950 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schälike, Stefan A1 - Chun, Hyunjoo A1 - Mishra, Kirti Bhushan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Schönbucher, A. T1 - Mass burning rates of di-tert-butyl peroxide pool fires - experimental study and modeling JF - Combustion science and technology N2 - Data and predictions for the mass burning rates of di-tert-butyl peroxide (DTBP) pool fires (0.003 m < pool diameter < 3 m) are presented. The mass burning rates of DTBP fires are up to five times higher and are less dependent on pool diameter compared to hydrocarbon pool fires caused by an additional heat release rate due to exothermic decomposition reaction in the liquid phase. This heat release rate is calculated using a first-order reaction kinetic obtained from microcalorimetric measurements. A new model is derived considering the heat release rate due to the decomposition reaction, which is shown to be 40% of the heat release rate radiated to the pool surface. With the presented model, which also includes physical quantities, especially the limiting fuel concentration for upward flame propagation, it is possible to predict the mass burning rates of large DTBP pool fires. The predicted values are in very good agreement with the experiments. KW - Di-tert-butyl peroxide (DTBP) KW - Exothermic decomposition reaction KW - Mass burning rate KW - Pool fire PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/00102202.2012.726664 SN - 0010-2202 SN - 1563-521X VL - 185 IS - 3 SP - 408 EP - 419 PB - Gordon and Breach CY - New York, NY AN - OPUS4-27902 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schälike, Stefan A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Gawlowski, M. A1 - Schönbucher, A. T1 - Validation of submodels for CFD simulation of n-hexane pool flames including interferometry JF - Chemie - Ingenieur - Technik N2 - Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is used to predict transient and time-averaged glame temperatures and species concentrations of an n-hexane pool flame. Employing a combination of an assumed probability density function approach with laminar flamelets using detailed kinetic data and large-eddy simulation with Smagorinsky submodel is shown to be a promising way in modeling pool and tank fires. The measured species concentration and flame temperature profiles from gas chromatography, thermocouple measurements and holographic interferometry are used to validate the submodels for CFD simulation of pool flames. KW - Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) KW - Interferometry KW - Large eddy simulation (LES) KW - Non-premixed flame KW - Pool fire PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.201100179 SN - 0009-286X SN - 1522-2640 VL - 84 IS - 4 SP - 484 EP - 490 PB - Wiley-VCH Verl. CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-25418 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Siddapureddy, Sudheer A1 - Prabhu, S.V. T1 - Partitioning of convective and radiative heat fluxes absorbed by a lumped body engulfed in a diffusion flame JF - Fire technology N2 - A simple model that divides the heat flux to the bodies engulfed in a diffusion flame into different components, namely radiation and convection is studied. Different sizes of brass and stainless steel (SS 304L) rods varying from 25.4 mm to 50.8 mm in length and 25.4 mm in diameter are used as specimens in this study. Experiments are conducted with each body inside a diesel pool fire of different diameters, namely 0.5 m, 0.7 m and 1.0 m. The temperature history of the body engulfed in a pool fire is measured to compute the thermal energy absorbed by the lumped body. Using an energy balance, the total energy is divided into three different components. The gas velocity in the flame is measured to be 1.53 m/s to 1.79 m/s for the diesel pool fires of 0.5 m to 1.0 m in diameter. The dominant mode of heat transfer in this study is radiative in nature. This simple model is reasonably able to predict the heat flux incident on to the lumped bodies engulfed by diesel pool fires using the measured temperature history. A three dimensional formulation for an axi-symmetric pool fire of a measured flame shape, flame temperature and a gray flame absorption coefficient is employed to predict the temperature of the body engulfed in pool fires. This formulation has to be modified to capture the absolute temperature values of the flame. KW - Lumped body KW - Pool fire KW - Velocity KW - Partitioning KW - Convective heat flux KW - Radiative heat flux PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-014-0412-7 SN - 0015-2684 SN - 1572-8099 VL - 51 IS - 4 SP - 801 EP - 822 PB - Kluwer Academic CY - Norwell, Mass. AN - OPUS4-33853 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -