1) On the mass increase rate.
In a previous paper
1) Takahashi reported that the mass increase rate,
I , while applying water to a burning wood crib could be expressed in terms of the water application rate
p as follows,
I =
ap −
bwhere
a,
b are constants.
In this study, five different types of cribs were added furthermore and improved nozzles were used, and the precision of the measuring apparatuses was examined beforehand carefully.
As assumed before, it was found experimentally that
a and
b was close to one and the burning rate,
rM just before water application respectively, thus the above equation can be written as,
I =
p −
rMwhich is very useful for the further investigation of the extinguishing phenomena.
2) On the extinction time.
It is commonly known empirically that the charcoal formed on the virgin wood surface has influence on the extinction, although there was a lack of careful experimental or theoretical work hitherto.
In this study, extinction of the charcoal crib, which was obtained by burning the wood crib until about eighty percent of its weight was consumed, was studied firstly.
Namely the water required to extinguish a unit mass of the charcoal,
μ, was experimentally found to be about 3.4 (gH
2O/gchar) from both the extinction and absorption tests. Then the approximate extinction time,
te , becomes
te ≈
Mc μp -1where
Mc is the mass of the charcoal at the beginning of water application.
For the second step, the above equation was applied tentatively for the burning wood cribs.
The extinction time calculated agreed quite well with the observed time for most cases, however there was poor agreements in the case the water application rate is very small or the burning rate is high. The inconsistency was attributed to the marked increase in the amount of charcoal and evaporated water during extinguishing.
As a whole, it can be said that the extinction of the wood fire can be expressed by absorption of the water by the formed charcoal if the application rate is moderately high.
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