An experimental study of fire growth and suppression of roll paper at small scales

Xin, Yibing; Zeng, Dong; Zhou, Xiangyang; Jamison, Kristin Lyn Taylor; Meredith, Karl V.

doi:10.1016/j.firesaf.2017.03.043

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“…Similarly, the report points out that thermocapillary instabilities, vaporization and conjugate heat transfer play a dominant role for fire suppression behaviour of solid fuel. However, in the experiment conducted by Xin et al 83 to evaluate the absorptivity effect and water application rate on the burning surfaces of two roll papers, the authors made the following observations: (1) the evaluation of burning surfaces on water transport patterns indicated that it is sensitive to the surface conditions and (2) when the outer layer exfoliates, wet paper detaches from the roll so that further wetting is terminated on the exfoliated paper, but continues onto the underlying layer. The authors concluded on this study by stating that surface delamination and exfoliation are crucial to the growth of roll paper fires and also noted that high water rate application and application times were observed to have slight significant effect on the suppression.…”

Section: Interaction Of Sprinkler Spray and Hot Solid Surfacesmentioning

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A review on fire suppression by fire sprinklers

Abdulrahman

Chetehouna

Cablé

et al. 2021

Journal of Fire Sciences

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Water spray remains the most effective, environment-friendly and economical way of fighting accidental or unwanted fires, and this is largely due to its thermal characteristics. The mechanism of fire suppression by sprinkler water sprays is influenced by numerous factors, which have been the focus of years’-long and on-going research studies to improve its extinguishing performances. A comprehensive review study was carried out in this study to assess the level of technological know-how and current state of research in the field. A total of 2473 published articles spanning 50 years (i.e. 1970–2020) were systematically collected and analysed, whereby more than 100 relevant articles were selected and integrated in the discussion. In particular, the review focuses on research relating to the interactions of sprinkler sprays with flame, fire plume and hot surfaces, aiming to provide a better understanding of the phenomena involved in fire suppression.

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Section: Interaction Of Sprinkler Spray and Hot Solid Surfacesmentioning

confidence: 95%

A review on fire suppression by fire sprinklers

Abdulrahman

Chetehouna

Cablé

et al. 2021

Journal of Fire Sciences

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“…They also indicated that the moisture content influenced the fire performance of the cartons. Xin et al investigated the fire growth and suppression of roll paper using laboratory‐scale experiments. They revealed that surface delamination and exfoliation were key parameters that affected the fire growth of the roll paper.…”

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Effects of external radiation heat flux on combustion characteristics of pure and oil‐impregnated transformer insulating paperboard

Zhang

Fan

et al. 2017

Process Safety Progress

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The effects of external radiation heat flux on the combustion characteristics of pure transformer insulating paperboard (PTIP) and oil‐impregnated transformer insulating paperboard (OITIP) were investigated experimentally. The experiments were conducted with the cone calorimeter using five external radiation heat fluxes that ranged from 25 to 80 kW/m2. The results showed that the ignition time decreased with the external radiation heat flux, and the ignition time of PTIP was much longer than that of OITIP. Both the PTIP and OITIP are thermal thick materials, and the critical radiation heat flux of the PTIP was larger than that of the OITIP. For the PTIP, the peak of the heat release rate (HRR) and toxic gas productions had no significant difference, while those of the OITIP increased with the external radiation heat flux. The HRR peak of the PTIP was larger than that of the OITIP with the external radiation heat fluxes of 25, 35, 50, and 65 kW/m2. When the radiation heat flux increased to 80 kW/m2, the HRR peak of the OITIP became higher. From the perspective of the CO production rate, the hazard of PTIP fires was more severe than that of OITIP fires under the external radiation heat fluxes of 25 and 35 kW/m2. The CO production rate of the PITP was lower than that of the OITP with the high external radiation heat fluxes of 50, 65 and 80 kW/m2. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Process Saf Prog 37:362–368, 2018

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