Potato patato cucumber...tanks under fire fail from the area with no liquid fuel. The steel fails from reduced strength. Agreed there is increasing pressure from the fire. But the point of failure is some point above the liquid inside.
Again more academic because most of us don't know how much liquid is in the tank when the fire starts. And mechanism of failure is irrelevant if you put in a system that was supposed to prevent. Chris -----Original Message----- From: å... .... <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected]: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 22:58:05 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Waterspray Systems for LPG tankers > > > the fuel inside is liquefied. therefore it is at bottom. the bottom is probably closest to the fire. this fuel is getting heated. higher temperatures equal higher pressures, eventually BLEVE is possible. we also get more "work" out of our cooling water when it cools liquid vis-a-vis gas...due to higher convective heat transfer rates for the liquid phase. scot deal excelsior fire _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
