An Air Heat Tracing System of Firefighting Pipeline in Cold Region Highway Tunnel

Mengze Zhang, Yongli Xie and Zhichao Wang ()
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Mengze Zhang: School of Highway, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
Yongli Xie: School of Highway, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
Zhichao Wang: School of Highway, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 23, 1-19

Abstract: Ensuring the proper operation of tunnel firefighting systems in cold regions is a key issue at hand. According to the characteristics of cold region tunnel fire control systems, this paper puts forward a kind of air heat tracing system (AHTS) that is suitable for cold region tunnel firefighting systems. In the AHTS, an annular air duct was used to heat the firefighting pipe and keep it warm, so that the water temperature in the firefighting pipe is above the freezing point, which helps prevent the water in the firefighting pipe from freezing and avoids the failure of the firefighting system. Meanwhile, the finite element software ANSYS was used to simulate the working state of the AHTS under different conditions, and the insulation effect under different conditions was evaluated. The results showed that the AHTS has a good heating and heat preservation function, which can effectively maintain the normal operation of the tunnel firefighting system in cold regions under a low temperature environment (below 0 °C). Furthermore, increasing the air temperature and air speed in the system was beneficial to the working effect of the AHTS, and the “high temperature and low speed” mode was beneficial to reduce the system power consumption. It is recommended that v = 5 m/s and Ta = 50 °C be used as the preset operating parameters. Finally, according to the numerical analysis results, the scientific and reasonable working parameters of the AHTS under different working conditions were optimized. The research content can provide new ideas and theoretical support for the thermal insulation technology of tunnel firefighting systems in cold regions in the future.

Keywords: cold region tunnel; firefighting system; antifreezing heat preservation; air heat tracing system; numerical simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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