| Title |
An Experimental Study on the Effect of Ventilation Velocity on the Burning Rate in Longitudinal Ventilation Tunnel Fires |
| Keywords |
Tunnel fire ; 터널 화재 ; Ventilation velocity ; 배연속도 ; Burning rate ; 연소율 ; Pool fire ; 풀 화재 ; Froude scaling ; Froude 상사 |
| Abstract |
In this study, the 1/20 reduced-scale experiment using Froude scaling were conducted to investigate the effect of longitudinal ventilation velocity on the burning rate in tunnel fires. The methanol pool fires with heat release rate ranging from 2.02kW to 6.15kW and the n-heptane pool fires with heat release rate ranging from 2.23kW to 15.6kW were used. The burning rate of fuel was obtained by measuring the fuel mass at the load cell. The temperature distributions were observed by K-type thermocouples in order to investigate smoke movement. The ventilation velocity in the tested tunnel was controlled by inverter of the wind tunnel. In methanol pool fire, the increase in ventilation velocity reduces the burning rate. On the contrary in n-heptane pool fire, the increase in ventilation velocity induces large burning rate. The reason for above conflicting phenomena lies on the difference of burning rate. In methanol pool fire, the cooling effect outweighs the supply effect of oxygen to fire plume, and in n-heptane pool vice versa. |