Experience and Results of Calculations in Case of Vertical Cable Tray Fires
- GRS mbH (Germany)
- Institut fur Baustoffe Massivbau und Brandschutz, Beethovenstrasse 52, 38106 Braunschweig (Germany)
- Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Bundesamt fuer Strahlenschutz, Postfach 10 01 49, D-38201 Salzgitter (Germany)
An 'International Collaborative Project to Evaluate Fire Models for Nuclear Power Plant Applications' (ICFMP) has been started in 1999 to improve the reliability and the applicability of different fire models with respect to modeling fires for application to nuclear plants. Within the frame of this project several benchmark exercises have been conducted from different organizations to represent various fire scenarios. For one of these benchmark exercises, four full scale cable tray fire experiments have been performed. The goal of these experiments was to gain more insights on the consequences and effects of cable fires, in particular with respect to the functional failures of electric equipment, as well as for validation of state-of-the-art fire simulation codes. The test series considered preheating effects and includes time dependent electrical functional failure measurements. In this paper, an overview of the experimental as well as the calculated results of two different types of codes is given. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- The ASME Foundation, Inc., Three Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016-5990 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 20995676
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 14. international conference on nuclear engineering (ICONE 14), Miami, FL (United States), 17-20 Jul 2006; Other Information: Country of input: France
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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