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Flammabilit of hydraulic fluid under pressure: real scale simulation of a fire incident
A fire at the Imperial Foods Product chicken processing plant, Hamlet, North Carolina, on September 3, 1991, destroyed the plant, killing 25 people and injuring 54 others. The fire began with a leak in a high-pressure hydraulic fluid line located near a bank of open-flame burners. The fire grew rapily and produced copious quantities of black smoke, as reported by eye-witnesses. A full scale simulation of this fire incident was created and the results were compared to those of a computer model based on FASTLite. The full scale test was conducted in a facility with a very simular size to the room of fire origin at Imperial Foods. The following information was concluded from the final test: The spray hydraulic fluid fire created a rapidly hostile environment in the facility; consisting of very high temperatures in the upper level of the entire facility; black smoke that reached the open end of the facility in 6-7 seconds; total obscuration of light, even at the 3 ft. level, throughout the facility in less than one minutes; severe oxygen depletion in the upper level of the facility, and significant quantities of carbon monoxide. Favorable comparison of the results of the actual fire test with the FASTLite computer simulation reinforces the validty of both.
Flammabilit of hydraulic fluid under pressure: real scale simulation of a fire incident
A fire at the Imperial Foods Product chicken processing plant, Hamlet, North Carolina, on September 3, 1991, destroyed the plant, killing 25 people and injuring 54 others. The fire began with a leak in a high-pressure hydraulic fluid line located near a bank of open-flame burners. The fire grew rapily and produced copious quantities of black smoke, as reported by eye-witnesses. A full scale simulation of this fire incident was created and the results were compared to those of a computer model based on FASTLite. The full scale test was conducted in a facility with a very simular size to the room of fire origin at Imperial Foods. The following information was concluded from the final test: The spray hydraulic fluid fire created a rapidly hostile environment in the facility; consisting of very high temperatures in the upper level of the entire facility; black smoke that reached the open end of the facility in 6-7 seconds; total obscuration of light, even at the 3 ft. level, throughout the facility in less than one minutes; severe oxygen depletion in the upper level of the facility, and significant quantities of carbon monoxide. Favorable comparison of the results of the actual fire test with the FASTLite computer simulation reinforces the validty of both.
Flammabilit of hydraulic fluid under pressure: real scale simulation of a fire incident
Entflammbarkeit hydraulischer Flüssigkeiten unter Druck: reale Simulation des Ausmaßes eines Brandfalles
Grand, A.F. (author) / Black, W.Z. (author) / Beitel, J.J. (author)
2003
10 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 4 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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