Characterisation of open-door electrical cabinet fires in compartments
| Autor: | M. Coutin, L. Audouin, William Plumecocq, Pascal Zavaleta |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Areva |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Engineering business.industry Mechanical Engineering Nuclear engineering Enclosure Fire safety Nuclear facilities [SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics] Nuclear Energy and Engineering Forensic engineering General Materials Science Safety Risk Reliability and Quality business Waste Management and Disposal |
| Zdroj: | Nuclear Engineering and Design Nuclear Engineering and Design, Elsevier, 2015, 286, pp.104-115. ⟨10.1016/j.nucengdes.2015.01.017⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0029-5493 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2015.01.017⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; Introduction The study of electrical fires is a major concern for fire safety in the industry and more particularly for fire safety in nuclear facilities. To investigate this topic, IRSN conducted a large number of real-scale experiments involving open-door electrical cabinets burning firstly under a calorimetric hood and then inside a mechanically-ventilated compartment. The main challenges are to determine accurately the heat release rate of such a complex fire source in a vitiated atmosphere and to provide an experimental database for validating properly the combustible modelling, taking into account the oxygen depletion in an enclosure. After providing a detailed description of the fire scenarios and of the experimental apparatus, this paper focuses on the characteristic stages of the cabinet fire development, essentially based on the heat release rate time evolution of the fire. The effects of the confinement, of the outlet branch location, of the ventilation management and of the fire barrier on the fire source were then investigated. The reproducibility of electrical cabinet fires is also studied. A new model for complex fire source (applied in this study for open-door electrical cabinet fires) was then developed. This model was introduced in the zone code SYLVIA and the major features of the compartment fire experiments, such as characteristic heat release rate with effect of oxygen depletion and over-pressure peak were then calculated with a rather good agreement for this complex fire source (i.e. electrical cabinet). © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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