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Title: Performance of water cooling for radiation heat flux fuel storage tank
Authors: Nik Zulkiflia, Nik Mohd Hafizullah
Munas, Fathima Rehana
Abdul Hamid, Hamdan
Ishake, Mohamad Khairi
Ismail, Mohd Azmi
Keywords: Fire
Fuel storage tank
Heat flux
Radiation
Water cooling
Issue Date: 31-Aug-2024
Publisher: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Citation: ASEAN Engineering Journal 14:3 (2024) 23–28
Abstract: Full-surface fire on fuel storage tank emits high radiation heat transfer. As a fire protection strategy, the water curtain cooling system is activated to reduce the temperature on the adjacent tank surface. Therefore, the present work predicts and analyses the radiation heat flux and the maximum flame temperature of different types of fuels. Further, this analyses the effect of fuel total mass on radiation heat flux and maximum flame temperature and observes the effect of distance between two tanks on radiation heat flux distribution. The relationship between water cooling flow rate and outlet water temperature that absorbed radiation heat flux has been studied. The study has been conducted by using the Consequence modeling software trial version. The modeling setup of the tank is 17 m in height with 65 m inner diameter, and the meteorological data used are 5.4 m/s wind speed with north wind direction at atmospheric pressure in order to imitate the worst-case fire scenario. The results reveal that the gasoline fuel emitted the highest heat flux value of 11.03 kW/m2 and the raw gasoline sample emits the lowest heat flux value of 9.14 kW/m2. Furthermore, the total mass of the fuel shows no effect on the maximum flame temperature of 958.51°C. According to the findings, the critical tank distancing is 36 m and thus the appropriate tank distancing of 40 m is highly recommended by the standard. The result shows that the water cooling rate of 4.1 lpm/m2 is an excellent practice of water cooling to cool down the temperature of the fuel tank which is exposed to radiation heat flux.
URI: http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/7135
ISSN: 2586–9159
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