Duhok polytechnic University

Engineering Technical Collage

Highway and Bridges Department
Second stage

Asphalt Technology

-:Test name
Flash and Fair Point
Reported by: Muhammad Abdulla Muhammad Sharef
Test number :- (5)
The date of the test: - 7-4-2019

Date of giving experience: - 14-4-2019

Name group: - (B)

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  TABLE OF CONTENT

No . Subject Page
1. Table of content 2
2. Introduction 3
3. Objective, Test condition 4
4. Reference,Apparatus,material 5
5. Figures 6
6. Procedure 7&8

7. Calculation and Result 9

8. Discussion 10

Introduction :-

This test is carried out to define the temperature

degree of which the bitumen sample flashes and then fires,

when heated to a certain temperature degree, often very high

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degrees. The Flash& Fire points method depends on definite

rates of temperature increased, to control the precision of the

method. It is a non-equilibrium method. Its primary use is for

viscous materials having a flash point of 79 Celsius degrees

(175 Fahrenheit degrees) and above The experiment is

successful if the flash-point afternoon after the temperature 300

degrees .It is also used to determine the fire point which is a

temperature above the flash point temperature, at which the

sample will support combustion for a period of at least

5seconds.

Objective :-

 to determine the flash and fire points of all

petroleum products. Except fuel oils and materials
having an expected flash point below 79 ℃ .

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  the flash and fire points indicate the materials
combustibility. The fumes from the material at the
flash pint temperatures are explosive.

Test condition :-

For petroleum products except fuel oils and materials

having an expected flash point below 79 ℃

References :-

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ASTM D 92- 99 and AASHTO T 48-96:’’ Standard

Test Method for flash and fire points using Cleveland

open cup”

Apparatus :-

1. oven

2-cleveland open cup

3-contenar

4- Heater

5-thermometer

Material :-

1-bitumin

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Figures :-

Oven Heater

Procedure :-

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In this experiment, we initially heats the bitumen in the oven at a

temperature (130℃ -140℃ ),Then the mold is placed in the oven the

same degree of heat bitumen, Then we run hitter device

We pouring bitumen in the mold

until the limits of template we put asphalt on the hitter at first

temperature in large (14-17 ) Degree in minutes When it reaches a

temperature of 180 degrees to reduce the temperature to be (5-6)

degrees in minutes

There is a bonfire on

the bitumen, up 2

mm and in with a gas

bottle we control them.

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And we are moving the flame by the hands of the right and left

repeatedly until the flash points and happen to one second, And

temperature measurement in with Thermometer , And in an

experiment it was unsuccessful and was the flash point of the delay

and a lot was one of the reasons the use of bitumen and heated

more than once and affects air and light also affects the experience,

and this is an interesting experiment for safety in time of

connections.

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Calculations :-

Grade of bitumen
Flash point (℃ ) 340 c
Fire point (℃ ) 370 c
Barometric pressure ,mm Hg
Corrected flash and fire point

The result :-

The results of The experience is not successful and the degree in

which the flash point was a big 318 ℃ .

Discussion :–

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 This experiment task for safety and extracted using

flash points and Fire to determine the proportion of safety

when transported bitumen from the company to a laboratory

them to the whereabouts of the work, flash point the lowest

temperature corrected to a barometric pressure of 760 mm

Hg at which application of the flame causes the vapor of

specimen to ignite under specified conditions of test. Fire

point the lowest temperature at which a specimen will

sustain burning for 5 sec, Flash point appears first and then

going on Fire. In bitumen 40-60 needed flash point appears

in 230 degrees and fire 235 degrees. And the reason that led

to the failure of the experiment by a large margin was the

same

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asphalt heating more than aversive and neglect flame of fire

and air and light were to have a positive impact on them.

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