Grenfell Tower & Fire Dynamics
Grenfell Tower Fire Dynamics, Safety Review, Building Cladding Report, West London High Rise
Grenfell Tower & Fire Dynamics
Combustion Containment Article re North Kensington Block of Flats Fire, London
21 May 2018
Containing the Triangle of Combustion
The Dynamics of Fire
Tim Kempster, Wrightstyle?s managing director, explains the dynamics of fire.
A year ago, on 14th June, seventy two people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire, which will likely go down in fire safety history as a catastrophe that should never have happened.
While it?s too early to finally point accusing fingers, with the public inquiry only just beginning, it?s perhaps worth remembering some well-known basics on what fire is, and therefore how it should be dealt with. Simply, fire involves a fundamental relationship between fuel, oxygen and heat ? the so-called fire triangle on which all fires, intentional or otherwise, depend.
Get those three elements together and the fire triangle is joined by a fourth element ? the chemical chain reaction that is actually the fire. In technical jargon, the triangle of combustion then becomes a tetrahedron.
Tim Kempster, managing director of Wrightstyle:
Fuel and oxygen
It?s a geometry that can either be friend or foe, as fuel and oxygen molecules gain energy and become active. This molecular energy is then transferred to other fuel and oxygen molecules to create and sustain the chain reaction.
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