The tube furnace as a new bench scale experiment for fire spread.

Introduction

Conclusion

Outlook

Motivation why studying cable fires

Outline of the thesis

The tube furnace

Motivation for new experimental set-up

Gap between modeling and experiment
Need time resolved data with well known boundary conditions
Set-up that is able to conduct both bench scale experiments and fire spread experiments

Methodology

Experimental set-ups

The influence of the sample colour on its pyrolysis and burning behavior

The effect of sample geometry on its cone calorimeter performance

The effect of the retainer frame and sample thickness in the cone calorimeter

Cone calorimeter

TGA

TGA IEK_6

TGA IEK4

Cone Denmarkt

Cone Prague

Nitrogen

Description of the set-up
Heat flux experiments

Air

Description of the set-up

Description of the balance

Bench scale and fire propagation version

Commisioning experiment: $CaCO_3$

Inert experiments

as a way to further describe the tube furnace?

Motivation for TGA and cone experiments:

Compare to different bench scale experiments

Outlook/ possible improvements

2 load cells

Presentation of experiments and results

Discussion

Conclusion
Link to cables should be made in the conclusion

Cable experiments

Motivation for using PMMA

Cables to complex
Often studied, used as calibration in cone
Non-sharing material

Motivation

Introduction
Containing the motivation and literature review on this specific part

Introduction

Presentation of experiments and results

Discussion

Conslusion

PMMA experiments to compare the experimental set-ups

Experimental method

Camera set-up
Programm to read camera out
Should this move to methodology?

Results

Discussion

Conclusion

Comparisson of different TGA's

Comparisson of different cone calorimeters

Comparisson of tube furnace with TGA and Cone

for cone use inert material to make comparisson of what are similar experiments

TGA

Cone

Tube furnace?

Bench scale experiment?

State of the art

PMMA

Cable

MacFP

General literature on PMMA

literature on cable

Nelly developped tube furnace

advantages of the tube furnace over other experiments

Summary of the main conclusion of the comparisson study of the physical properties

TGA and cone general introduction

Goal of the thesis

Design experiment that can be used as bench scale experiment
Compare parameters derived from experiment with parameters from current existing experiments, using PMMA --> therefore conduct experiments in other devices
In this comparisson with other devices, small different aspects between PMMA and cables are compared, like colour effect and geometry
Run a commissioning experiment with a cable, to demonstrate that the device works for complex material.

PMMA in TGA

PMMA in cone

TGA Prague? For comparison commissioning experiments

Sample preparation

Fire spread experiments with PMMA

Comparisson which bench scale experiments

comparisson to literature?

Fire propagation experiment