Experimental Measurement of Shipboard Fire Environments for Simulated Radioactive Material Packages on a Break-Bulk Freighter

AbstractTypical accidental fire exposure conditions for radioactive material packages on cargo ships have been measuredwith the use of pipe calorimeters and other instrumentation. The experiments, conducted aboard an actual break-bulk cargo ship,simulate conditions for both fires in adjacent ship holds and for cargo fires in the same hold with the hazardous cargo. Followinga description of the experimental arrangement, typical results are presented, and then compared with results from computationalfluid dynamics simulations. Comparisons between the shipboard fire environment and land based fires are discussed, and conclusionsregarding shipboard fires and their simulation are drawn.