temperature on the other side of fire wall
temperature on the other side of fire wall
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Hi all,
I was tasked with calculating temperature on the other side of fire wall if the fire breaks down. Normally Im doing structual calculations thats why I need some help. I have sample calculations and "heat transfer" by Mills.
I have 2 mobile facilities that are next to each other, about 9" gap. I need to calculate what temperature will be on the other side of the wall, if there is fire on one side. If we have to we can make gap between them to be about 2feet.
based on the sample calculations we assume that fire will have temp of 1200K, first wall has (2) 12gage steel walls with 2" insulation inside. assumption is that fire will emitate radiation heat of 117.6kW/m2 (that is calculated from Stefan-Boltzman law), and then that heat was used to calculate temp on the other side based on conductuion law. what I dont understand insulation resistance was ignored and resistance of steel, which is almost nothing, was used to get temp on the other side.
anyone have any idea?
I was tasked with calculating temperature on the other side of fire wall if the fire breaks down. Normally Im doing structual calculations thats why I need some help. I have sample calculations and "heat transfer" by Mills.
I have 2 mobile facilities that are next to each other, about 9" gap. I need to calculate what temperature will be on the other side of the wall, if there is fire on one side. If we have to we can make gap between them to be about 2feet.
based on the sample calculations we assume that fire will have temp of 1200K, first wall has (2) 12gage steel walls with 2" insulation inside. assumption is that fire will emitate radiation heat of 117.6kW/m2 (that is calculated from Stefan-Boltzman law), and then that heat was used to calculate temp on the other side based on conductuion law. what I dont understand insulation resistance was ignored and resistance of steel, which is almost nothing, was used to get temp on the other side.
anyone have any idea?





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Assuming 2inches at 0.1W/m-K insulation, I get the outside wall temperature around 180°C in steady state, but the accuracy is pretty low without a more detailed analysis.
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RE: temperature on the other side of fire wall
when I calculated temp on the other side of wall I got T2=T1-(q*l/k)=1200-(117600*0.0508/0.17)=-33941K wich is of course unresonalbe number.
also if fire emitts 117.6kW/m2 can I treat this as heat exchange between fire and the wall. based on book heat exchange by radiation is q=J-G. so it would appere that you cant do that.
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Your equation is nonensical, since you're equating the radiated energy from the surface to the conducted energy through insulation, which is, of course, absurd, since the surface temperature, when accounting for insulation, is nowhere near 1200 K.
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So what should I do to get initial heat transfer to get temp T2?
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RE: temperature on the other side of fire wall
Tw and Ta are shown in K, and should be in C, right, since you add Tb to both of them.
Tw is temp on the wall on fire side, and Ta is on the other side of the exposed wall?
Heat transfer hamb=5W/m^2K - where this is coming from?
Then based on the equations I see we are using convection process between fire and wall, then we ignore completely conductivity in the wall, and then we use radiation and conductivity in the 9in gap and again ignore conductivity through the other wall.
Is that correct?
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RE: temperature on the other side of fire wall
> 106K is the guess temperature that the solver starts with
> No, you read the equation incorrectly. Conduction THROUGH the wall = convection + radiation.
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R12=1/3, R34=1/3 and R40=1/3 ( in BTU,ft hr F units) and since the effective radiation resistance is about 1/15 I get that the outer walls are about 900 K and the inner wall of the second building is about 600 K.
Looks like you may have structural problems at 900 K.
A more accurate analysis which includes convection would mitigate these results. By how much? . You may have to consult the literature for this since convection is complex and air gap plays a strong role.
RE: temperature on the other side of fire wall
My bad. I had an error in the insulation resistance.
Should be
R12=R34=3, R40=1/15
Makes a difference. Then the outer walls of the 2 buildings absent convection come close to 750 K.
The assumption of convection /radiation for an open space(R40=0.33) between them yields an outer firewall temperature of 390 K
which is on the low side of the actual.
RE: temperature on the other side of fire wall
I understand your eq now.
but still, I did heat transfer 7 years ago, and just putting eq and pluging the numbers dosent explain to me how the process is going. so the only think I can get from eq is that we can compare heat from conduciton from wall adjacent to fire to the heat fransfer via radiation and conduction in the 9in gap. But how this gives me temperature T4?
zekeman,
can you explain what you are using and where? is that 750K my T1?
RE: temperature on the other side of fire wall
The issue is whether a 9" gap supports conduction, since it's larger than many furnace vents, but an extremely large area and height wall might wind up doing a large amount of conduction.
The worst case would be to assume that there is no convection, which means that all of the heat going through the first wall, by definition, must go through the second wall. In that case, Zekeman's answer of 750K is similar to what I get: T2=757K T3=742K.
That is not surprising, since the problem is symmetrical with no external losses, so the temperature in the air gap would be expected to be roughly (1200K+300K)/2 = 750K
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If there is no chimney effect, then convection should be up from the hot (flame) side and down on the cooler (warm) surface.
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im still missing what is driving force for heat exchange. and everytime I think I understand new aspect comes up and blows my theory up.
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Heat flows from hotter to colder; that's the fundamental principle of thermodynamics.
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Natural convection in an air layer enclosed between two vertical plates with different temperatures
E.R.G. Eckertf†, a and Walter O. Carlson‡, a
aHeat Transfer Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., USA
Received 22 January 1960. Available online 27 February 2003.
RE: temperature on the other side of fire wall
now I know how to take is appart and it make sense to me.
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19 Feb 10 16:10
zekeman, where you get from that resistance R34 is 10 times resistance R40?
From my first post, I indicated that R12=R34=3, R40=1/15
and since T3 is about 750 (see IRstufis post for verification),
the differential temperature between is T4-T0=750-300=450 so invoking the seies drop like an electrical circuit
T4=T0+(T4-T0)*1/15/(1/15+3)= 300+450*1/45=310
which corrects an error I made earlier, making it even smaller.
The 1/15 and 3 derive from the inside film and the insulation resistance as IRstuff showed.
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got one more question?
Convection in air gap.I dont understand your equation for hair(Tm). I looked in "Heat transfer" by Mills, and I didnt find this eq.
I found relationship to calculate hc based on Nu, Ra, and Pr number. but when I run numbers for Ra number assuming deltaT=1200-300, then Ra came to be more than 10^7 which is limit to apply the Nu equations so Im stuck again.
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If no fresh air is added to the gap, then that's a reasonable approximation.
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that is why I was thinkging about natural convection in gap itself.
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