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  1. ThisisMiles

    Diesel locomotive exhaust characteristics?

    I'm trying to determine typical exhaust characteristics for a diesel locomotive at idle or low speed. I've found a fair bit about the make-up of the exhaust gases, but not total flow rate (say per engine capacity and rpm) or exhaust gas temperature. Values for where the exhaust leaves the engine...
  2. ThisisMiles

    Fires in open deck carparks

    Sorry but I don't have the actual references at hand. However, I can give you some figures for multiple car fires in open deck car parks. 1 car, peaks at about 2.2MW, 3 cars (one first, then the fire spreads) get to about 4MW after 30min. Apparently once the fire has spread through 8 cars, the...
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    Fire protection piping in EMP tunnel, now what

    PVC piping is being removed from many other tunnels around the world because of the very toxic and corrosive fumes that are released when PVC burns. Any electrical components in the vicinity of a PCV fire will be completely stuffed afterwards, even if not directly burned. Not sure if that...

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