Fire Science and Technology
Online ISSN : 1882-0492
Print ISSN : 0285-9521
ISSN-L : 0285-9521
A Burning Model for Charring Materials and Its Application to the Compartment Fire Development
Keisuke HimotoTakeyoshi Tanaka
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2004 Volume 23 Issue 3 Pages 170-190

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A one-dimensional integral model is formulated to describe the transient burning of charring materials. In the model, the sequence of events occurring in a material when exposed to a fire environment is divided into following sequential phases: (I) initial heating phase, (II) pyrolysis phase, (III) char oxidation phase. The calculated mass loss rates are shown to be in reasonable agreement with the existing experimental data. The burning model is then incorporated into a one-layer zone compartment fire model. The fuel inside the compartment is divided into multiple fuel elements, and the compartment fire behaviors are described as the consequence of the burning of each of these fuel elements. The comparison with experimental data in the literature also agreed well.
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© 2004 Center for Fire Science and Technology, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
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