A comprehensive methodology for characterizing sprinkler sprays

Ren, Nanqi; Baum, Howard R.; Marshall, André W.

doi:10.1016/j.proci.2010.06.107

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“…Laser-based shadow-imaging Ren et al (2011) used a laser-based shadow-imaging technique for characterization of sprinkler spray. The equipment used was a digital camera with a high-speed laser from LaVision.…”

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“…The thickness of the DOF sheet is dependent on the size and has to be calibrated as explained in Chapter 4.3. The laser-based shadow-imaging technique used by Ren et al (2011) uses acrylic splashguards that will remove some of the droplets in front and behind the DOF. Ren et al (2011) found a strong connection between sprinkler geometry and spray pattern.…”

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“…The laser-based shadow-imaging technique used by Ren et al (2011) uses acrylic splashguards that will remove some of the droplets in front and behind the DOF. Ren et al (2011) found a strong connection between sprinkler geometry and spray pattern. This means the measurements were highly dependent on location in spray.…”

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Image-Based Characterization of a Medium Velocity Fire Water Nozzle – Preliminary Results

Lundberg¹,

Lysaker²,

Vaagsaether³

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the Seventh International Seminar Fire and Explosion Hazards

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The Norwegian petroleum industry has developed a standard for the technical safety of offshore installations (NORSOK S-001, 2008). When dimensioning accidental load with this standard, the deluge or fire water spray may be considered as a risk reducing measure for equipment and pipes, but not for the structural elements or fire partition (NORSOK S-001, 2008). Proper documentation of the suppression effect and reliability has to be provided when water is used as a fire risk reduction measure in risk evaluation. The standard states that the deluge system shall be automatically activated upon confirmed gas detection when used for explosion mitigation.Full-scale fire experiments with fire on offshore platforms are limited by practical and economic considerations. Instead, numerical simulations are used for risk analyses. To get a good representation of the effect of the fire water deluge system, the properties of the water spray need to be known.In the literature, the availability of data on fire water spray is limited. Often the spray is described only by the orifice diameter of the fire water nozzles and spray angle. However, the flow properties of the spray (i.e., size and velocity distribution of the droplets) are known to influence the suppression efficiency. Small droplets will follow the convective forces in the gas flow, evaporate quickly, cool the fire gases and screen for heat radiation. In contrast, large droplets have high momentum and are more likely to reach the source of the fire and to cool objects such as process equipment and pipes.Presently the most used technique for measuring droplet size and velocity in fire water spray is the Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA). This technique will provide online measurements of both size and velocity at the same time, but the technique has some limitations and practical problems.In this doctoral thesis, a laser-based shadow-imaging technique by a high-speed camera and a laser is used. To analyze the shadow-images, an in-house image-processing tool in Matlab has been developed to find droplet size-and velocity distribution.The results from the experiments in this thesis show the location in the spray to have a large effect on the water flux( 3 ( 2 • ) ⁄ ), i.e. the water flux is not uniform and varies with water supply pressure. The geometry of the nozzle and the frame arms affects the applied water flux extensively at low pressures. This effect is taken into account when the applied water flux is measured. 4The results show the water pressure to have the following effects:  The radial coverage will decrease with increasing water supply pressure  The applied water flux will be less uniform for different azimuthal angles at low water pressures than at high water pressures. The number of large droplets will decrease with increasing pressure  The velocity of the droplets will in general increase with increasing pressure.The research provides unique experimental data of droplet size-and velocity distribution for the fire water nozzle and an image processing ...

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Image-Based Characterization of a Medium Velocity Fire Water Nozzle – Preliminary Results

Lundberg¹,

Lysaker²,

Vaagsaether³

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the Seventh International Seminar Fire and Explosion Hazards

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“…Traditionally, atomization in fire sprinklers has been studied experimentally [1]. A great amount of effort has been invested in measuring the sprinkler droplet diameter distribution, droplet velocities, and mass flux profiles [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].…”

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“…A great amount of effort has been invested in measuring the sprinkler droplet diameter distribution, droplet velocities, and mass flux profiles [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. These measurements have been used to better understand the atomization process and to develop spray injection models for use within fire suppression modeling [8].…”

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Towards Resolving the Atomization Process of an Idealized Fire Sprinkler with VOF Modeling

Meredith

Zhou

Wang

2017

Proceedings ILASS–Europe 2017. 28th Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems

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Fire suppression modeling depends on accurate characterization of the atomization processes of fire sprinklers. Numerical modeling, particularly the volume of fluid (VOF) method, has been applied to understanding the atomization behavior of an idealized sprinkler geometry consisting of a 9.5 mm inner-diameter cylindrical nozzle and a flat, 25.4 mm diameter disk with a liquid flow rate of 0.87 L/s. The simulations have been performed with an OpenFOAM based VOF solver, using the isoAdvector scheme for interfacial reconstruction. The sheet breakup distance and film thickness were calculated and compared with measurements from a previous study. A mesh refinement study identified the sensitivities in the predicted quantities to mesh resolution. This study enables further application of the model to simulation of the fully atomized spray.

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