Citation

Nagase K, Funatsu K. Fire Technol. 1990; 26(4): 290-309.

Affiliation

Mechanical Engineering Department, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, P.O. Kanazawa-South, Ishikawa-Ken 921, Ohgigaoka, Nonoichi, Japan; Railway Technical Research Institute, Rolling Stock Control Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01293075

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A fire broke out on a diesel railcar while running on a line of the Japan Railways Group. After an exhaustive investigation into the cause of the fire, it was found that the origin had been the lubricating oil of the engine. The lubricating oil vaporized from a long idling engine while the car was standing and accumulated in the exhaust silencer in considerable amounts. When the car was climbing up a long slope, the oil was exposed to a high-temperature exhaust gas and ignited. The flame attacked and melted the exhaust funnel, and eventually caused a fire.