期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE
卷 36, 期 2, 页码 3045-3053出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2016.09.021
关键词
Limiting oxygen concentration (LOC); Extinction; Electrical wire; Inclination angle; Microgravity
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51636008]
- Excellent Young Scientist Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51422606]
- Newton Advanced Fellowship [NSFC: 51561130158, RS: NA140102]
- Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS [QYZDB-SSW-JSC029]
- Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation [151056]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK2320000035]
- JSPS [P12360]
- JAXA
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Materials, such as electrical wire, used in spacecraft must pass stringent fire safety standards. Tests for such standards are typically performed under normal gravity conditions and then extended to applications under microgravity conditions. The experiments reported here used polyethylene (PE)-insulated (thickness of 0.15 mm) Nichrome (NiCr)-core (diameter of 0.5 mm) electrical wires. Limiting oxygen concentrations (LOC) at extinction were measured for upward spreading flame at various forced opposed-flow (downward) speeds (0-25 cm/s) at several inclination angles (0-75 degrees) under normal gravity conditions. The differences from those previously obtained under microgravity conditions were quantified and correlated to provide a reference for the development of fire safety test standards for electrical wires to be used in space exploration. It was found that as the opposed-flow speed increased for a specified inclination angle (except the horizontal case), LOC first increased, then decreased and finally increased again. The first local maximum of this LOC variation corresponded to a critical forced flow speed resulted from the change in flame spread pattern from concurrent to counter-current type. This critical forced flow speed correlated well with the buoyancy-induced flow speed component in the wire's direction when the flame base width along the wire was used as a characteristic length scale. LOC was generally higher under the normal gravity than under the microgravity and the difference between the two decreased as the opposed-flow speed increases, following a reasonably linear trend at relatively higher flow speeds (over 10 cm/s). The decrease in the difference in LOC under normal- and microgravity conditions as the opposed-flow speed increases correlated well with the gravity acceleration component in the wire's direction, providing a measure to extend LOC determined by the tests under normal gravity conditions (at various inclination angles and opposed-flow speeds) to LOC under microgravity conditions. (C) 2016 by The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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