Objective The objective is: to perform medium and large scale experiments and specify a 3-dimensional model to describe gas movement near the flame; to determine the speed of pyrolysis and combustion and production of toxic and corrosive products; to validate standard method and models; and to study the thermohydraulics of the flame and its radiation Fire can be the cause of considerable damage to the plants themselves and to their environment due to mechanical, thermal and toxicologic effects (eg the fire at the SANDOZ plant in BALE). The MISTRAL project will supply the manager of potentially hazardous plants with qualified tools to prevent or mitigate fire consequences. There are 7 main work programmes as follows. Determination of data necessary to qualify fire and plume elevation codes. Creation of the 3-dimensional code flamme 3. Studies of the pyrolysis and combustion kinetics including laboratory tests which can be used to validate a model describing the rate of combustion and pyrolysis. Standardized tests. Some experiments will be carried out on small and medium sized samples to standardize tests used in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Studies of toxic and/or corrosive combustion products. Several families of chemical products will be tested to deteminine the function of incident thermal flux and oxygen concentration on the release of noxious products. Results will be compared with large scale tests. Atmospheric diffusion of aerosols and gas. The results will be used to qualify an existing code. The models take into account the deposition of solids and atmospheric diffusion of gas. Study of the thermohydraulic and of radiation. The work will describe the combustion zone in different geometric configurations and will model the radiative properties of a diffusion flame on combusting surface. Programme(s) FP2-STEP - Two specific research and technological development programmes (EEC) in the field of the environment STEP/EPOCH - STEP -, 1989-1992 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) EU contribution No data Address Centre d'etudes de fontenay-aux-roses 92265 Fontenay-aux-roses France See on map Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution No data Address Avenue de la recherche scientifique 1 c 45071 Orleans See on map Total cost No data Compagnie Internationale de Services en Informatique France EU contribution No data Address Route de nice 13100 Aix-en-provence See on map Total cost No data Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA) Italy EU contribution No data Address Via martiri di monte sole 4 40129 Bologna See on map Total cost No data Institut National des Industries Extractives Belgium EU contribution No data Address 200,rue du chéra 4000 Liège See on map Total cost No data Rhône-Poulenc Industrialisation SA France EU contribution No data Address 24 avenue jean jaurès 69151 Décines-charpieu See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO Portugal EU contribution No data Address Campus de santiago 3810-193 Aveiro/eixo See on map Total cost No data Université de Poitiers France EU contribution No data Address 443 domaine du deffend 86550 Mignaloux-beauvoir See on map Total cost No data