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The heat release rate is the fundamental data in designing the fire extinguishing system, simulating fire growth and evacuation. However, due to the cost of time and money for the fire experiment, there is still no adequate data for commercial shops in the real sites. To obtain the combustion parameters and temperature distribution during the fire, a full-scale fire test of a retail shop was carried out based on the 40 MW large-scale calorimeter. Cameras and thermocouples were used to record the visual images and temperature variations. The results showed that the maximum value of heat release rate was 12.91 MW, and the maximum value of fire growth rate index was 1.2 MW/s. The characteristics of temperature distribution were analyzed. It was found that the rupture of the glass wall was indicative of the transition from the ventilation-controlled stage to the fuel-controlled stage. The result will provide more information in understanding the shop fire progress in realistic situations.
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This work is supported by National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No. 2018YFD1100403. The authors would like to thank Prof. Y.Y. **e and his team from Sichuan Fire Research Institute of MEM for the work based on the larger-scale calorimeter system.
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Yang, L., Liu, S., Liu, W., Wei, W., Ou, C., Liu, S. (2023). A Full-Scale Fire Experiment of a Retail Shop in Large-Scale Transportation Buildings. In: Wang, L.L., et al. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment. COBEE 2022. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9822-5_163
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