Wooden Pallet Fire


Pallet fire time-line

This test was performed at BFRL in February 1996. Times are in seconds from ignition. Select a picture to view a larger version.

0 min, 0 kW 2 min, 150 kW 4 min, 390 kW 6 min, 680 kW
8 min, 1.0 MW 10 min, 1.7 MW 12 min, 1.6 MW 14 min, 1.1 MW
16 min, 850 kW 18 min, 560 kW 20 min, 360 kW

The fire size in kilowatts versus time

Fire Data

The heat release data for this case is incorporated into the default one-room case for CFAST/FASTLite. If you are running FASTLite, we suggest that you copy this file into the default example directory, C:\FLITE . The data is also available in a spread sheet (comma delimited) format.

Animations

View a movie of this fire by downloading one of the following quicktime or mpeg files.

Frame RateAnimation Format
Quick TimeMPEG
1 frame per second 1.4 MB 1.5 MB
6 frames per second 8.6 MB 8.7 MB