TY - JOUR A1 - Siddapureddy, S. A1 - Wehrstedt, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Prabhu, S. V. T1 - Heat transfer to bodies engulfed in di-tert-butyl peroxide pool fires - Numerical simulations N2 - The thermal response of bodies engulfed in di-tert-butyl peroxide (DTBP) pool fires is studied numerically. High heat release rates, high velocities and high emissive powers portray the combustion of DTBP. This makes exceptionally hazard for bodies engulfed in DTBP fire accidents. The concept of adiabatic surface temperature (AST) is applied for DTBP pool fires to circumvent the difficulty of defining the fire exposure boundary condition at the solid surface. Adiabatic surface temperatures (AST) are computed for pool diameters 1.13 m and 3.4 m using the fire dynamics simulator. The thermal response of cask in a 1.13 m DTBP pool fire is studied to verify the concept of AST. It is found that a cask encounters twofold the heat fluxes in DTBP fires than in diesel pool fires. More than 30% of the net heat flux to the cask is a direct result of the convective heat exchange between the fire and the cask. This implies that the regular safety guidelines formulated for hydrocarbon pool fires are not adequate for the safety of the bodies engulfed in DTBP pool fires. KW - Di-tert-butyl peroxide (DTBP) pool fire KW - CFD simulation KW - Adiabatic surface temperature (AST) KW - Cask in fire PY - 2016 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2016.09.008 SN - 0950-4230 SN - 1873-3352 VL - 44 SP - 204 EP - 211 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-37883 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 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 -