Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials (ICPADM), 2012 IEEE 10th International Conference on the
Conference_Location :
Bangalore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2852-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADM.2012.6318987
