Assessing smoke and fire hazard of burning electric cables

Author

Rao, B. Nageshwar ; Arunjothi, R. ; Srinivasan, A.R.

Author_Institution

Central Power Res. Inst., Bangalore, India

fYear

2012

fDate

24-28 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents and discusses the techniques for assessing the fire smoke hazard of burning electric cables. Power cables, communication cables, data cables and wires used for various applications in Power plant, Refineries, automobiles and other applications have been evaluated for heat release measurement. The behavior of cables have been studied at various thermal irradiances. Power cable Individual components have been evaluated at different heat fluxes. Parameters like time to ignition, mass loss rate, total heat release, heat of combustion, specific extinction area of smoke, rate of production of yields CO/CO₂ ratios are also measured and discussed.

Keywords

fires; heat of combustion; power cables; smoke; telecommunication cables; wires; automobiles; burning electric cables; carbon monoxide-carbon dioxide ratio; communication cables; data cables; fire smoke hazard; heat release measurement; heat-of-combustion; mass loss rate; power cables; power plant; refineries; specific extinction area-of-smoke; thermal irradiance; time-to-ignition; total heat release; wires; Cable insulation; Cable shielding; Communication cables; Electric variables measurement; Heating; Optical variables measurement; Volume measurement; Burning Electric cables; Fire Hazards; Heat Release; Smoke; Toxicity; flammability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials (ICPADM), 2012 IEEE 10th International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Bangalore

ISSN

2160-9225

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2852-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADM.2012.6318987

Filename

6318987