Experiments on extinction of liquid hydrocarbon fires by a particulate mineral

✍ Scribed by T.P. Sharma; R.S. Chimote; B.B. Lal; Jagbir Singh

• Book ID: 103037653
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 542 KB
• Volume: 89
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(92)90031-j

✦ Synopsis

A series of experiments on gasoline fires were carried out in a 45-cm-high open-top mild steel tank in the diameter range of 27.5-75 cm in order to study experimentally how efficiently liquid hydrocarbon fires in storage tanks could be extinguished by a particulate mineral. For 30-, 45-, 60-, and 75-cm-diameter tank fires, the minimum thickness of the fire extinction volume of the exfoliated vermiculite required for complete extinction of fires is 16 cm for an average 4.5-mm particle size distribution; further it is a linear tangent function of the minimum fire extinction volume of the exfoliated vermiculite and the size of fire to be extinguished.