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Performance of water cooling for radiation heat flux fuel storage tank

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dc.contributor.author Nik Zulkiflia, Nik Mohd Hafizullah
dc.contributor.author Munas, Fathima Rehana
dc.contributor.author Abdul Hamid, Hamdan
dc.contributor.author Ishake, Mohamad Khairi
dc.contributor.author Ismail, Mohd Azmi
dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-25T09:57:05Z
dc.date.available 2024-09-25T09:57:05Z
dc.date.issued 2024-08-31
dc.identifier.citation ASEAN Engineering Journal 14:3 (2024) 23–28 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2586–9159
dc.identifier.uri http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/7135
dc.description.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. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Universiti Teknologi Malaysia en_US
dc.subject Fire en_US
dc.subject Fuel storage tank en_US
dc.subject Heat flux en_US
dc.subject Radiation en_US
dc.subject Water cooling en_US
dc.title Performance of water cooling for radiation heat flux fuel storage tank en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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