Fire testing and study of liquid pool fire in multiple compartments

Many experimental/numerical studies on single compartment or single room fires have been reported in the literature but few studies are available for multiple compartments. There is a need for fire studies in multiple compartments as it may help in predicting fire impacts in build up environments which has compartmentalization. In the present work few fire experiments were conducted in a real life two-storey compartmentalized concrete building. We have used two liquid fuels to generate two different types of pool fires, Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) and n-heptane. The work was focused on the thermal hydraulic aspects like heat distribution to the corresponding walls, temperature near walls, vertical distribution of temperature close to fire and comparison of heat-flux and temperature at specified locations in interconnected rooms. The reported study elucidates the impact of ventilation on various thermal and hydraulic aspects of fire. (author)