Experimental study on burning characteristics of spilled crude oil pool fires on water surface

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2019.12.009

Abstract

Abstract: In order to improve combustion efficiency and oil removal effect when using ISB combustion method to deal with oil spill on the sea surface, a series of small scale simulation experiments using light crude oil were carried out. Firstly, test device for pool fire on water surface was designed to simulate the in-site combustion process. Then the combustion process was studied by measuring the flame height, temperature and burning efficiency. Finally, the influence of pool diameter and initial fuel-layer thickness on flame height were discussed. The results show that the combustion of oil pool fire on water surface can be divided into four stages, that the heat wave propagation is the main cause of boiling over, and that combustion efficiency is positively correlated with oil layer thickness.

Key words: pipeline leakage, oil spill, in-situ burning(ISB), flame height, initial oil layer thickness, boilover phenomenon

CLC Number:

X937

HUI Wenying, NIU Jianzhuang, HE Xu, YANG Hanbing. Experimental study on burning characteristics of spilled crude oil pool fires on water surface[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2019, 29(12): 53-58.

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