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Mathematical modeling of agricultural fires beneath high voltage transmission lines

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  • El-Zohri, Emad H.
  • Shafey, Hamdy M.
  • Abdel-Salam, M.
  • Ahmed, A.

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This paper presents a mathematical model for agricultural fires based on a multi-phase formulation. The model includes dehydration and pyrolysis of agricultural fuel and pyrolysis products. The model considers a homogeneous distribution of the agricultural solid fuel particles, interacting with the gas flow via source terms. These terms include: drag forces, production of water vapour and pyrolysis products, radiative and convective heat exchange. A multi-phase radiative transfer equation for absorbing–emitting medium is considered to account for the radiative heat exchange between the gas and solid phases of the fire. The main outputs of the present model are most important to study the influence of agricultural fire occurring beneath high voltage transmission lines. The agricultural fire causes a flashover due to the ambient temperature rise and soot accumulation on the insulator of these transmission lines. Numerical results of the present model are obtained for flat grassland fires to study the effects of wind velocity, solid fuel moisture content and ignition length on some selected fire outputs. These outputs include the temperature, velocity, soot volume fraction fields of the gas phase, together with fire propagation rate and flame geometry. The numerical results are compared to the available experimental work in the literature.

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  • El-Zohri, Emad H. & Shafey, Hamdy M. & Abdel-Salam, M. & Ahmed, A., 2011. "Mathematical modeling of agricultural fires beneath high voltage transmission lines," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 385-396.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:36:y:2011:i:1:p:385-396
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2010.10.027
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