Citation

Singhal SN, Delichatsios MA, de Ris J. Fire Safety J. 1989; 15(3): 211-225.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

Some offshore oil production vessels are equipped with stack-enclosed gas flares. Excessive heat radiation due to flaring of produced gas can cause problems for the equipment and the crew onboard the vessel. The heat radiation from the stack depends upon many physical phenomena which cut across disciplines in thermodynamics, combustion, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics.This paper presents analyses of many different aspects of the flaring process which determine the amount of heat radiation incident on a target some distance away.