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A compartment of size 4 m × 4 m × 4 m has been constructed to carry out the experiments. A door of size 2 m height and 1 m width is created on the front facing wall, for ventilation purpose. Fuel is burned in the centre of the compartment in cylindrical pan of diameter 0.6 m. Total depth of fuel pan is 0.12 m, initial fuel thickness is 0.05 m in the pan. Various parameters like mass loss rate, hot gas layer temperature, corner temperature in the compartment, heat flux and doorway temperature are measured. Experiments results showed that maximum heat release rate achieved is 302.5 kW (based on the mass loss method) and the average mass loss rate per unit area was found to be 30.54 gs−1 m−2.
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Abbreviations
- \( {\dot{\mathbf{Q}}} \) :
-
Heat release rate (kW)
- \( {\dot{\mathbf{m}}}^{{\prime \prime }} \) :
-
Mass loss rate per unit area (kg s−1 m−2)
- \( {\mathbf{A}} \) :
-
Fuel surface area (m2)
- \( {\varvec{\Delta}}{\mathbf{H}}_{{\mathbf{c}}} \) :
-
Heat of combustion (kJ/kg)
- \( {\varvec{\upchi}} \) :
-
Combustion efficiency (–)
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The present work is supported by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai under the Grant No: DAE 507 MID.
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Chaudhary, A., Gupta, A., Kumar, S., Kumar, R. (2017). Experimental Study on Jatropha Oil Pool Fire in Full Scale Compartment. In: Suresh, S., Kumar, A., Shukla, A., Singh, R., Krishna, C. (eds) Biofuels and Bioenergy (BICE2016). Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47257-7_17
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