Abstract
ABSTRACT A great deal of concern and effort has gone into testing various fire resistant booms since the 1993 Newfoundland Offshore Burn Experiment (NOBE), when it became apparent that there were potential limitations in the performance of commercially manufactured fire booms. One of the major questions that arose after this experiment was the capability of fire booms to adequately support real in situ burn operations. Towing experiments on selected booms both at sea and in test tanks, coupled with data from burn tests based on proposed ASTM-F20 Standards, have begun to new reveal facts about the performance of these booms. Results of the at-sea towing tests indicate that, in general, booms with higher buoyancy-to-weight ratios attained higher critical tow speeds, sustained higher towing tensions, and maintained better wave conformance. Results of towing tests of booms containing oil at the OHMSETT test tank facility suggest that fire booms should perform successfully when tow speeds of less than 1.0 knot is maintained. Burn tests at the U.S. Coast Guard Fire and Test Detachment revealed that fire booms could be expected to maintain some structural stability and freeboard for at least three 1-hour burns during a deployment.
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