Radiation Transport Measurements in Methanol Pool Fires with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

dc.contributor.advisorJackson, Gregory Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorYilmaz, Aykuten_US
dc.contributor.departmentMechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-24T05:30:42Z
dc.date.available2009-03-24T05:30:42Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.description.abstractPool fires rely on radiation and conduction heat feedback from the combustion process to the liquid surface to vaporize the fuel. This coupled relationship determines the fuel burning rate and thus the fire structure and size. Radiative heat transfer is the dominant heat feedback in large pool fires. Species concentrations and temperatures have large influence on the radiative heat transfer in the fuel rich-core between the flame and the pool surface. To study radiative transport in the fuel-rich core, an experimental method was developed to measure radiative absorption through various pathlengths inside a 30 cm diameter methanol pool fire by using a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer with N<sub>2</sub> purged optical probes. The measured spectra are used to estimate species concentration profiles of methanol, CO, and CO<sub>2</sub> in the fuel rich core by fitting predictions of a spectrally resolved radiation transport model to the measured spectra. Results show the importance of reliable temperature measurements for fitting the data and the need for further measurements to further understand the structure of fuel rich cores in pool fires.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8965
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Mechanicalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledChemistry, Physicalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFT-IRen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmethanolen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpool firesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledradiationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledspectroscopyen_US
dc.titleRadiation Transport Measurements in Methanol Pool Fires with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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