Flames Are Fun
Flames Are Fun
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- Release Date: 18th March 1980
- Asset ID: 801806
- Synopsis: A programme looking at the industrial research which has turned many ideas into commercial propositions at Sunbury Research Centre, with examples of experiments
- Shotlist: Gas flame rotating around a hob; Ext. BP Research Centre, Sunbury; research scientists working in laboratory; Professor Dennis Desty arriving at Sunbury on foot; Desty presents to camera in laboratory; CAs - drawings of industrial settings, GVs research scientists working in laboratory; CU candle flame; gas flames; b&w archive commercial; WS production platform; gas flame; CU push on mixing tube for conversion burner; long and floppy flame; CU example of tubes developed for burner by Desty and colleagues; GVs of burner; prototype boiler; pre-mixed gas flame; 10:05:23 gas flame billowing out of chimney; an experiment where water is forced through a nozzle fixed to a curved sheet to show gas under pressure; CU tulip shaped gas flames produced using same principles; research flare at Sunbury; flares at oil well (Middle East?); production platform; drill rigs; experiment where a ball of wire is heated to show incandescent combustion; experiment using quartz pot with fire brick particles and igniting methane to produce incandescent flame; bright white flame; 10:09:43 coal-burning power station with cooling towers; smoking chimney; b&w archive of V-1 bomb; experiment to simulate the principle of the bomb - methylated spirits in glass jar, Professor Desty blows in air and sets off a flame which sounds like an engine revving; glass jars; acoustic pulsator propulsion unit which powers a glider; coil of plastic tube with oxygen and methane ignited to create detonation waves; CU of flames flying through tube in dark; thin metal combustor; gas and air fed through toroidal burner to create a rotating gas flame; coil of glass tubing is fed with methane and ignited; Professor Desty presents to camera; candle flame, flare END
- Production Company: None
- Licensing Restrictions: None
- Viewing Restrictions: Public
- Format: BetaSP_Small
- Alternative Language Notes: None