SF3015 Building Fire and Smoke Dynamics Syllabus:
SF3015 Building Fire and Smoke Dynamics Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. Basic idea about the fundamentals of fire phenomena and firefighting.
2. Provide the students an illustration of significance of the Fire Engineering Profession in the Protection life, property and environment.
3. Learn the basic various heat transfer process.
4. Basic knowledge about flame and its characteristics of flame behaviors
5. Teach the ignition behaviors and various stages of flame and fire.
UNIT I FIRE SCIENCE AND AERODYNAMICS
Fire Science and Combustion: Fuels and the combustion process, The physical chemistry of combustion in fire. Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics: Summary of the heat transfer equations, Conduction, Convection, and Radiation.
UNIT II FLAMMABILITY AND PREMIXED FLAMES
Limits of Flammability and Premixed Flames: Limits of Flammability, The structure of a premixed flame, Heat losses from premixed flames, Measurement of burning velocities, Variation of burning velocity with experimental parameters.
UNIT III FIRE FLAME AND PUMPS
Diffusion Flames and Fire Plumes: Laminar jet flames, Turbulent jet flames, Flames from natural fires, some practical applications. Steady Burning of Liquid and Solid Fuels.
UNIT IV BEHAVIOR OF IGNITION
Ignition: The Initiation of Flaming Combustion: Ignition of flammable vapor/air mixtures, Ignition of liquids, Pilot ignition of solids, Spontaneous ignition of combustible solids, Surface ignition, Extinction of flame. Spread of Flame: The phenomenology of flame spread, Theoretical models of flame spread, Spread of flame through open fuel beds, Applications.
UNIT V STAGES OF FIRE
The Pre-Flashover Compartment Fire: The growth period and the definition of flashover, Growth to flashover. The Post-Flashover Compartment Fire: Regimes of burning, Fully-developed fire behaviour, Temperatures achieved in full-developed fire, Fire resistance and fire severity, Methods of calculating fire resistance, Projection of flames from burning compartments, spread of fire from compartment.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
CO1: Understand the fire opposition and its procedure
CO2: Analysis of fire behavior and fire problems.
CO3: Get the knowledge about stage of fire flowing and detail about ignition.
CO4: Understand methods of calculating fire resistance from burning compartments.
CO5: We learn details about premixed flames and its characteristics.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, Third Edition 2011 by DougalDrysdale, university of Edinburgh, Scotland, uk by john wiley & sons, ltd
2. A text book for tunnel fire dynamics, HaukurIngason, yingzhenli, AndersLonnermark
REFERENCES:
1. Text book for fire safety engineering design of structure for john A.Purkis, Bsc (eng),PhD, MICE,MIFS at Butterworth Heinemann, first published 1996.
2. An Introduction to Fire Dynamics written by Dougal Drysdale3. SFPE Hand Book for Fire Protection Engineering, NFPA
4. Smoke Movement in buildings by J.H. McGuire “Fire Tech.3 (1967)
5. NFPA 204M, Guide for Smoke & Heat Venting Rates of Production of Hot Gases in Roof Venting Experiments by P.L. Hinckley.