Optimization of positive pressure ventilation tactic for wind driven high rise fires

Prabodh Panindre; Sunil Kumar; Atulya Narendranath; Vinay Kanive Manjunath; Venkata Pushkar Chintaluri; Vishal Prajapati

Optimization of positive pressure ventilation tactic for wind driven high rise fires

Prabodh Panindre, Sunil Kumar, Atulya Narendranath, Vinay Kanive Manjunath, Venkata Pushkar Chintaluri, Vishal Prajapati

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Abstract

Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV) is a firefighting tactic that can mitigate the spread of fire and the combustion products to improve the safety of firefighters and civilians in wind-driven high-rise fires than without PPV. The performance of a PPV tactic in wind-driven high-rise fires depends on various parameters that include wind speed, control of stairwell doors, number of fans, fan positions and placements, fire location etc. This paper describes the influence of these parameters on the efficacy of PPV operation that was studied by simulating wind-driven high-rise fire scenarios using computational fluid dynamics softwares Fluent 12.0 and NISTs Fire dynamic simulator (FDS 5.0). The results obtained from Fluent and FDS found to be in close agreement with each other and have been used to optimize the PPV operation for better performance.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011
Pages	1561-1569
Number of pages	9
Edition	PARTS A AND B
State	Published - 2011
Event	ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011 - Denver, CO, United States Duration: Nov 11 2011 → Nov 17 2011

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Name	ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011
Number	PARTS A AND B
Volume	4

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Other	ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver, CO
Period	11/11/11 → 11/17/11

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Mechanical Engineering

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Panindre, P., Kumar, S., Narendranath, A., Manjunath, V. K., Chintaluri, V. P., & Prajapati, V. (2011). Optimization of positive pressure ventilation tactic for wind driven high rise fires. In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011 (PARTS A AND B ed., pp. 1561-1569). (ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011; Vol. 4, No. PARTS A AND B).

Optimization of positive pressure ventilation tactic for wind driven high rise fires. / Panindre, Prabodh; Kumar, Sunil; Narendranath, Atulya et al.
ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011. PARTS A AND B. ed. 2011. p. 1561-1569 (ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011; Vol. 4, No. PARTS A AND B).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Panindre, P, Kumar, S, Narendranath, A, Manjunath, VK, Chintaluri, VP & Prajapati, V 2011, Optimization of positive pressure ventilation tactic for wind driven high rise fires. in ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011. PARTS A AND B edn, ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011, no. PARTS A AND B, vol. 4, pp. 1561-1569, ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011, Denver, CO, United States, 11/11/11.

Panindre P, Kumar S, Narendranath A, Manjunath VK, Chintaluri VP, Prajapati V. Optimization of positive pressure ventilation tactic for wind driven high rise fires. In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011. PARTS A AND B ed. 2011. p. 1561-1569. (ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011; PARTS A AND B).

Panindre, Prabodh ; Kumar, Sunil ; Narendranath, Atulya et al. / Optimization of positive pressure ventilation tactic for wind driven high rise fires. ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011. PARTS A AND B. ed. 2011. pp. 1561-1569 (ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2011; PARTS A AND B).

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