Pool fire burning characteristics and risks under wind-free conditions

Pool fire burning characteristics and risks under wind-free conditions: State-of-the-art

Guo, Youwei (Southwest Petroleum University)
Xiao, Guoqing (Southwest Petroleum University; Oil & Gas Fire Protection Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province; Gas Reservoir Geol & Exploita)
Wang, Lingyuan (Southwest Petroleum University)
Chen, C. (TU Delft Safety and Security Science; Southwest Petroleum University)
Deng, Hongbo (Southwest Petroleum University)
Mi, Hongfu (Chongqing University of Science&technology)
Tu, Chu (Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Li, Yuanyuan (Southwest Petroleum University)

2023

Pool fire is a typical example of fire accidents in chemical process industries. Since fire researchers have implemented a variety of measurements to gain insights into pool fire and to prevent fire disasters, there is a need to illustrate how pool fire models influence the risk assessment results. This review intends to consecutively discuss the effect of different physical factors on the burning behavior of pool fire and fire risk assessment. For the most part, this review extracts representative works from abundant pool fire articles in the last years and is subdivided into mass burning rates, entrainment, flame height, pulsation, radiation transfer sections, and risk assessment. On the basis of the latest research, it is indicated that new fire models can provide more accurate and reliable assessment results than previous models. They are not only to reduce the cumbersome work and resources but also to validate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models that are essential components of performance-based design in fire prevention. Consequently, providing the latest information about how pool fire evolves and how risk assessment is affected, this review paper would be advantageous to fire experts in the future.

Fire risk
Flame height
Mass burning rate
Pool ire
Radiation

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f19c54bb-f3a0-41f5-af10-7930f1caebab

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2023.103755

2023-08-07

0379-7112

Fire Safety Journal, 136

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© 2023 Youwei Guo, Guoqing Xiao, Lingyuan Wang, C. Chen, Hongbo Deng, Hongfu Mi, Chu Tu, Yuanyuan Li