The fuel (oil, gasoline, etc) is typically trapped in an absorbent material or lying on a surface that is preventing it from burning (by sinking away heat).
Petroleum products have lower densities than water, i.e. they float on top of water. When you add water, it soaks down into the materials present, which causes the fuel to float to the surface. The high temperature causes the water to boil and project bits of fuel and water droplets into the air. If it's hot enough, this will cause the fire to blaze up; otherwise it usually just spreads the fire around.
Hence, fires caused by petroleum products are extinguished by solid or gas fire suppressants (sand, foam ect.) as it forms a layer over the petroleum product on fire, thereby, cutting out the oxygen supply needed for it to continue to burn.
No, as this residual part of petroleum products contains number of catalysts used in cracking as well as very high fractaionated residual part of petroleum products. The fire holding power of tar is less than the white petrol,petrol,disel, and kerosine . Fire spread is totally depends on volatile nature of the solvents how fast it evaporates/catches fire to burn and convert to carbon dioxide and water in the atmosphrere with the help of atmospheric oxygen by a process of combution.
No, it is not safe to have Vaseline (or any petroleum-based products) around oxygen as they are flammable and can increase the risk of fire. It is important to follow safety precautions and keep petroleum-based products away from oxygen equipment.
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Because it isn't really a good idea to use fire or flames around petroleum products.
napalm is the mix with petroleum jelly to create a fire bomb!
An explosion is caused by fuel burning very rapidly. The products of combustion expand rapidly and with extreme force, and the result is what we call an explosion. So...if you put gasoline on a fire and it explodes, as it will, the explosion was caused by the fire.
Fires caused by oil cannot be extinguished by water because oil is less dense than water and floats on top of it. When water is used on an oil fire, it can spread the fire by carrying the burning oil with it and causing the fire to become more intense. Additionally, the high temperatures of an oil fire can cause the water to vaporize quickly, creating steam that can disperse the burning oil and make the fire harder to control.
In a fire tube boiler, the water surrounds a set of tubes through which the fire and the products of combustion travel (as opposed to a water tube boiler, in which the water travels through the tubes, and the fire surrounds the tubes).The HVAC Veteran
Since petroleum is a flammable liquid, a Class B fire extinguisher would be used.
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