Smoke Plume Trajectory Over Two-Dimensional Terrain.
Smoke Plume Trajectory Over Two-Dimensional Terrain.
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McGrattan, K. B.; Trelles, J. J.; Baum, H. R.; Rehm, R.
G.
NISTIR 5904; NIST SP 995; Volume 2; October 1996.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 28-31, 1996, Gaithersburg, MD, 65-66 pp, 1996.
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB97-153514
Keywords:
fire research; fire science; smoke plumes; crude oil;
water; in situ combustion; oil spills
Abstract:
Under the sponsorship of the U.S. Minerals Management
Service and the Alaska Department of Environmental
Conservation, the National Institute of Standards and
Technology has conducted a series of large outdoor burns
of crude oil on water to assess the feasibility of using
in situ burning as an oil spill remediation tool. In
conjunction with these experiments, a numerical (ALOFT -
A Large Outdoor Fire plume Trajectory) model has been
developed to predict the downwind concentration of smoke
particulate and other combustion products. The
numerical model has been carefully compared with results
from field experiments, and the results are very
favorable.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899