Abstract
Fire hazard of liquid fuel exposed in oxygen-rich environment is significantly greater than that in air, which should be considered in the safety risk assessment of scenarios where oxygen and fuel coexist. To reveal the effect of oxygen concentration on fuel properties and combustion characteristics of liquid fuel, a series of experiments were conducted to measure the liquid-phase component, flash point, lower flammability limit, heat release rate and flame height of rocket kerosene at different oxygen concentrations. The results show that the flash point of rocket kerosene (with an average chemical formula of C11.98H22.64) decreases nonlinearly with the increased oxygen concentrations, while the oxygen concentration has a great enhancement effect on the heat release rate and visible flame height of rocket kerosene pool fire. Prediction models of the flash point and lower flammability limit based on the Clausius-Clapeyron equation, Le Chatelier rule and decreasing temperature assumption, as well as empirical equations of the heat release rate and visible flame height, were derived for different oxygen concentrations in this work, providing a new comprehensive understanding of the effect of oxygen concentration on the rocket kerosene, and could be further applied to fire risk assessment in liquid fuel and oxygen coexisting scenarios.
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