Heat and Mass Transfer Australasia

ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-099-3

EFFECTS OF AIR-HANDLING SYSTEM ON FIRE SPREAD IN A FULL-SCALE BUILDING

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DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.290
pages 241-248

Mingchun Luo Centre for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering (CESARE), Victoria University of Technology PO Box 14428, MCMC, Melbourne, Victoria 8001, Australia

Vaughan Beck Centre for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering (CESARE), Victoria University of Technology PO Box 14428, MCMC, Melbourne, Victoria 8001, Australia

Résumé

This paper presents the results of research into the effects of an air-handling system on fire development in a full-scale prototype building. Two full-scale experiments were conducted; one with the air-handling system operating and one without. The experimental results showed that the operation of the air-handling system significantly speeded up the fire development. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model has been applied to these fire scenarios with the same conditions as the experimental set-up. The CFD model provided the predictions of the magnitude and trends for the experimental results.

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