Experimental Study on Horizontal Fire Spread Characteristics of Transformer Oil

Abstract

Abstract In order to study the horizontal fire spread characteristics of transformer oil, a series of experiments were carried out on the experimental platform developed, the influence of the initial temperature and the width of the oil pool on the flame propagation, including the propagation speed, flame morphology and the temperature field distribution of the gas-liquid two-phase, was analyzed to reveal the flame propagation characteristics and the oil surface temperature rise law in the process of transformer oil fire propagation, and a theoretical model of coupled liquid-phase convective heat transfer and flame radiation heat transfer was established by combining thermodynamic theory to quantitatively calculate the heat transfer process of surface flow in flame propagation process. Through the theoretical analysis and quantitative calculation of gas-liquid heat transfer, it is proved that the surface flow is mainly driven by surface tension and the flame spreads in the form of pulsation. Combined with the experimental data for verification, it is found that the proportion of liquid-phase convective heat transfer to the total heat flow is much larger than that of flame radiation to the total heat flow, which proves that liquid-phase convective heat transfer is the main mode of surface flow heat transfer.