A series of fire tests was conducted involving a 2.44-m-(8-ft)-diameter, 4.57-m-(15-ft)-long, 2.54-cm-(1-inch)-wall thickness pipe calorimeter suspended 1-m above a 7.93-m-diameter pool that contained 7.57 m3 (2000 gallons) of jet fuel. The wind conditions, calorimeter temperature, participating media temperature and speed, and radiant heat flux, were measured at several locations as functions of time in three fire tests. The first two had relatively light winds and lasted roughly 40 minutes, while the third had much stronger winds and consumed the fuel in 25 minutes. The purpose of this paper is to describe the experimental facilities and certain fire characteristics. The large amount of data acquired cannot be fully presented in this paper. A website is available by contacting the first author so that the full data set may be used to quantitatively benchmark large-fire simulations and models.
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ASME 2009 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the InterPACK09 and 3rd Energy Sustainability Conferences
July 19–23, 2009
San Francisco, California, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Heat Transfer Division
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978-0-7918-4358-1
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Thermal Measurements of a Rail-Cask-Size Pipe-Calorimeter in Jet Fuel Fires Available to Purchase
Miles Greiner,
Miles Greiner
University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
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Marcelo del Valle,
Marcelo del Valle
University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
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Carlos Lopez,
Carlos Lopez
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
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Victor Figueroa,
Victor Figueroa
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
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Esam Abu-Irshaid
Esam Abu-Irshaid
University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
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Miles Greiner
University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
Marcelo del Valle
University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
Carlos Lopez
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Victor Figueroa
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Esam Abu-Irshaid
University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
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HT2009-88520, pp. 173-181; 9 pages
Published Online:
March 12, 2010
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Greiner, M, del Valle, M, Lopez, C, Figueroa, V, & Abu-Irshaid, E. "Thermal Measurements of a Rail-Cask-Size Pipe-Calorimeter in Jet Fuel Fires." Proceedings of the ASME 2009 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the InterPACK09 and 3rd Energy Sustainability Conferences. Volume 3: Combustion, Fire and Reacting Flow; Heat Transfer in Multiphase Systems; Heat Transfer in Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing and Materials Processing; Heat and Mass Transfer in Biotechnology; Low Temperature Heat Transfer; Environmental Heat Transfer; Heat Transfer Education; Visualization of Heat Transfer. San Francisco, California, USA. July 19–23, 2009. pp. 173-181. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2009-88520
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