Progresses on Burning Properties of Full Surface Fire of Large-Scale Oil Tanks
The experiments on the burning properties of crude oil pools conducted home and overseas in recent years are summarized briefly. It was pointed that the burning rate of crude oil, which was below 4mm/min generally, had close relationship with crude oil type, tank diameter, wind speed, environmental temperature, oil layer depth and water content. Thermal radiation was one of the most hazardous aspects of large-scale oil tank fires and most of them came from flame base. The thermal radiation for leeward was much higher than that for windward accordingly. Thermal radiation for some leeward sites was less than that of windward sites due to smoke blockage effect. The thermal radiation during boilover was much higher than that during steadystate burning and the thermal radiation for leeward was higher than that for windward. Boilover of crude oil tanks related closely with oil layer depth, water layer in the tank bottom and the emulsified water content. The 0.5-3％ emulsified water content was essential for oil boilover. However, boilover mechanism of crude oil containing emulsified water is not well known yet and needs further study.
Fire Fighting Crude Oil Tank Burning Rate Thermal Radiation Boilover
LANG Xuqing MU Shanjun LIU Quanzhen
Safety Engineering Institute of Sinopec,Qingdao,266071,China
国际会议
2009 International Symposium on Fire Science and Fire-Protection Engineering(2009火灾科学与消防工程国际学术会议)
北京
英文
251-256
2009-10-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）