Citation

Huang X, Zhu H, Peng L, Zheng Z, Zeng W, Bi K, Cheng C, Chow W. Fire Mater. 2019; 43(1): 64-73.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/fam.2669

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Cable fire risk analysis is important for fire protection design in nuclear power plants, where multiple horizontal cable trays are mostly located on the walls. Fire experiments using three cable trays with different cable arrangements were conducted in a confined room to investigate the burning behavior of a cable tray on a wall. A corner was formed by the side wall and the cable tray. Hot smoke emitted from the burning cable was trapped in the corner and then ignited the cable on the bottom surface of the upper cable tray. It is found that for cables densely packed together, spread of flame on the bottom surface of cable tray was clearly observed and increased the mass loss of cable burning during the growth stage of a cable tray fire. For cables arranged further apart, vertical propagation from the bottom tray to the top tray was fast and dominated the mass loss of cable burning.

Language: en

Keywords

cable arrangement; cable tray fire; cable tray location; flame propagation; flame spread