THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Alena O. Zhdanova

,

Geniy Vladimirovich Kuznetsov

,

Jean Claude Legros

,

Pavel A. Strizhak

THERMAL CONDITIONS FOR STOPPING PYROLYSIS OF FOREST COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL AND APPLICATIONS TO FIREFIGHTING

ABSTRACT
Five models describing heat transfer during evaporation of the water sprayed over the forest to stop fires and to cool down the pyrolysis of the bio- top layer are established and investigated by a parametric approach. It aims to improve the understanding of the behaviour and the properties of the forest combustible material. A mathematical description of forest combustible material surfaces (needles of pine and fir-tree, leaves of birch) is established. The characteristic time, td, to cool down the forest combustible material layer below the temperature of the onset of the pyrolysis is the important parameter investigated in the present work. The effective conditions were determined allowing to reach the shortest td and the lowest consumption of e. g. water to be dropped.
KEYWORDS
forest material, pyrolysis, stopping, thermal conditions
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2015-10-06
PAPER REVISED: 2016-05-05
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2016-05-16
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2016-05-30
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI151006121Z
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2017, VOLUME 21, ISSUE Issue 6, PAGES [2565 - 2577]
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