Glovebox Fires Phase 1: Simulations of Open Burner Experiments
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Understanding the duration of a fire required to breach a glovebox via glove ports and/or windows within a facility is important in developing mitigation strategies for safety. To facilitate this understanding, both simulation and experiments are utilized. The approach is to first validate the Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code, Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), with experimental data collected by New Mexico Tech (NMT) and then perform simulations of full-scale rooms containing gloveboxes to assess numerous scenarios which would otherwise be cost-prohibitive experimentally. This report provides comparison to first-phase experiments involving a fire without a glovebox. A subsequent report will provide comparison to experiments involving a glovebox. The results indicate good agreement with FDS tending to over predict the pre-mixed and diffusion-mode tests by 6% and 10%, respectively.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 3000612
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--2025-13307; 1788612
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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