Use of unmanned aerial systems in outdoor firefighting

BY Lattimer, X Huang, MA Delichatsios, YA Levendis… - Fire Technology, 2023 - Springer
The use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by the fire service is becoming more common,
especially for large outdoor fires where it is difficult to understand the state of the fire …

Experimental study on extinguishing oil fire by water mist with polymer composite additives

YC Liu, JC Jiang, AC Huang - Journal of Thermal Analysis and …, 2023 - Springer
Fire accidents are unpredictable, especially oil fires, which often lead to serious losses
because they cannot be extinguished quickly. Accidents are unavoidable, even though it is …

Experimental and numerical study of the fire behavior of a tank with oil leaking and burning

J Wang, M Wang, X Yu, R Zong, S Lu - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Leaking-burning coupling fires caused by oil leakage from tanks cause significant damage
to occupants and the equipment. A series of experiments was conducted to investigate the …

Experimental and numerical simulation research on fire suppression efficiency of dry powder mediums containing molybdenum flame retardant additive

X Guo, H Zhang, X Pan, L Zhang, M Hua… - Process Safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In order to cope with the frequent fire accidents in modern society, it is crucial to develop
efficient fire extinguishing agents to stamp out fires in its early stage. In this work, a new …

Research on the effect of ceiling centralized smoke exhaust system with air curtains on heat confinement and plug-holing phenomenon in tunnel fires

Z Chen, Z Liu, L Huang, G Niu, J Yan, J Wang - Process Safety and …, 2023 - Elsevier
As tunnel fires can easily cause numerous casualties, this paper proposes a combination of
ceiling centralized smoke exhaust and air curtain ventilation to study the temperature …

Assessment of the mass burning rate of LNG pool fires by a validated CFD model

Z Wang, S Hou, M Zhang, J Xu, Z Gao… - Process Safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is widely used, because it provides an easy and economic
solution to the transport and storage of natural gas (NG), especially on long distances or …

Influence of Water Mist Temperature Approach on Fire Extinguishing Effect of Different Pool Fires

T Liu, XY Yin, YC Liu, Y Tang, AC Huang, XL Dong… - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The aim of this paper was to study the suppression influence of water mist on oil pool fires,
taking diesel fires and n-heptane fires as experimental objects. The effects of spray pressure …

Providing a model to evaluate the spread of fire in a chemical warehouse using numerical simulation and Bayesian network

SM Hanifi, F Laal, M Ghashghaei, H Mandali - Process Safety and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chemical warehouses are one of the important sources in process units. Locations are one
of the issues that should be investigated in closed environments due to the many types of …

On the trajectory and reach of fire-suppressant liquid nitrogen droplets released from a spray nozzle

A Liu, MA Delichatsios, YA Levendis - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Liquid nitrogen (LN 2) can be used to supplement or replace currently used fire
extinguishers in challenging fire situations. This environmentally-benign cryogenic fluid can …

Effects of combined porous media on quenching and re-ignition characteristics of methane/air premixed combustion in a duct

J Wang, Y Li, G Liu, L Zheng, R Pan, C Lu… - Journal of Loss Prevention …, 2023 - Elsevier
During the study of foam metal suppression of methane combustion in ducts, it was found
that under certain conditions, after the flame is extinguished, a re-ignition phenomenon …