[理学]消防燃烧学课件.ppt

* * * * * * During welding work in an elevator shaft in the 16-storey Garley Building in Hong Kong district on 21st November 1996, a fire broke out which killed 39 people and seriously injured around 80 others. More than 90 people were rescued, some of them in daring scenes in which a helicopter pilot risked his own life. Maintenance and repair work was in progress in the office and business tower when highly flammable material caught fire during welding work in the basement. The fire made its way up through the elevator shafts and spread like lightning through the top three floors of the building. The immense heat and smoke made these floors a death trap for the people working there: the windows could not be opened to let the heat and smoke out, and escape routes were filled with smoke or impassable on account of the fire. As a result, 22 charred bodies were subsequently found in a single office on the 15th floor.Duesseldorf, Germany, air terminal on Thursday, April 11, 1996, which burned for approximately 6-1/2 hours and killed 17 people - 16 died that day, and one died later of fire-related injuries. Another 62 people were injured severely enough to be hospitalized. * * * And you have seen All these pictures. And from them, you can see compartment fire is very different from what we have learned in previous chapters. And now I think you have already got a rough idea about what is a compartment fire like and how serious a compartment fire could be. In fact, Compartments fires are very dangerous. They are are much more dangerous than outdoor fires. Then why??? * Look at the picture, It’s a room. It has walls, ceiling and a door. So it’s a compartment. And we use a match to ignite a part of a sofa. And then a fire will be formed. As we have mentioned before, the fire will generate heat and smoke, and because of walls and ceiling, most of the smoke and heat will be trapped inside room. This is the * Then as time goes by, the fire will become bigger. More and m