2025 January - 34 articles
Climate conditions have long been recognised as an important factor influencing the start and spread of forest fires in Mediterranean areas. This is partly due to the long dry periods that characterise these regions. Mixed forest ecosystems are more...
Xinjiang is a region of China that suffers severe energy resource loss and air pollution resulting from long-term coalfield fires in near-surface inclined coal seams. Beneath these fire areas, abandoned mined-out goaf is common. Accidents easily occu...
This study shows how the fire regulations for railway seats used in international traffic have changed over the last 30 years. In the past, a paper cushion was used as a flame source, and today, a 15 kW burner is used; consequently, the requirements...
A new safety risk assessment model for battery pack production processes was developed using the DEMATEL-ANP method to analyze the impact and complex relationships of risk-influencing factors. Initially, five major risk-influencing factors were ident...
With public safety receiving widespread attention from society, the question of how to effectively evacuate crowds has become a key issue. Leaders can provide pedestrians with clear and accurate route information and play an important role in daily c...
This article offers a concise overview of the best practices for safety in offshore oil and gas operations, focusing on the risks associated with various types of equipment, particularly on the risk of fire. It identifies specific machinery and syste...
Utilizing the intermediate air shaft for smoke exhaust is one of the crucial emergency ventilation methods in metro tunnel fires. To study the impact of metro tunnel slope on smoke exhaust performance of intermediate air shaft, this paper employs num...
As a high-frequency disaster with potentially devastating consequences, urban fires not only threaten the lives of city residents but can also lead to severe property losses, especially for hazardous chemical leaking scenarios. Quick and scientific d...
Forest fires cause extensive environmental damage, making early detection crucial for protecting both nature and communities. Advanced computer vision techniques can be used to detect smoke and fire. However, accurate detection of smoke and fire in f...
(1) Background: this study investigates the impact of acid value changes on the thermal degradation and fire risks of palm oil. It emphasizes the need for systematic risk management in food manufacturing and preparation processes to address safety ch...
Shifts in global climate patterns can alter animal behavior, including movement and space use. The southwestern United States of America is currently undergoing a period of megadrought, which can have profound consequences on small ectothermic organi...
Outdoor fire detection faces significant challenges due to complex and variable environmental conditions. Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing (FO-DTS), recognized for its high sensitivity and broad monitoring range, provides significant advan...
Powder-based fire extinguishing methods are widely used to suppress fires of all kinds efficiently. However, these methods have several drawbacks, the most significant being the large powder residue left behind, which can complicate cleanup and damag...
This study investigates the performance of DC corona discharge electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) for NO conversion to increase DeNOx technologies’ efficiency for small-scale biomass combustion systems. Experiments were conducted using a 5 kW a...
The purpose of this study was to compare heart rate recovery (HRR) after a maximal treadmill (MAX-TM) and three-minute all-out (3MT) test between firefighters (FF) and a control (CON) group. Nine male CON and nine male FF participants completed heigh...
Wildfires have significant ecological, social, and economic impacts, release large amounts of pollutants, and pose a threat to human health. Although deep learning models outperform traditional methods in predicting wildfires, their accuracy drops to...
In the European Union, Regulation (EU) No 305/2011, in force since 2017 as CPR, requires the classification of cables permanently installed in buildings for reaction to fire, smoke, flaming droplets, and acidity. The latter is an additional classific...
Fires are classified into five types: A, B, C, D, and F/K, according to the components involved in combustion. Recognizing fire classes is critical, since each kind demands a unique suppression approach. Proper fire classification helps to decrease t...
A comprehensive understanding of airflow temperature distribution within high-temperature tunnels is crucial for developing effective cooling strategies that ensure a safe environment and acceptable construction costs. In this paper, we introduce a n...
Globally, fire incidents cause significant social, economic, and environmental destruction, making early detection and rapid response essential for minimizing such devastation. While various traditional machine learning and deep learning techniques h...
Ammonia has attracted considerable attention as a zero-carbon fuel for decarbonizing energy-intensive industries. However, its low reactivity and narrow flammability limit efficient ignition and efficient combustion. By using CONVERGR software, this...
The purpose of this study is to understand the law of gas migration in the goaf and reduce the gas on the working face. Taking the N2105 working face of the coal mining industry as the research object, the mathematical model of gas seepage in the goa...
To study the fire behavior of UHVDC (ultra-high-voltage direct current) converter transformers and the effectiveness of CAFs (compressed air foams) in suppressing fires, a full-scale model of a 220 kV converter transformer fire was constructed. The m...
The paper addresses the issue of forest fires and critical points in activities related to extinguishing and transport of extinguishing agent to the fire site. With the increasing incidence of forest fires, there are also serious implications for the...
Scientometric analysis using the Scopus database and VosViewer program identified the critical directions of development of this or that field to identify promising technologies and to understand how these achievements affect the practice of design a...
Tunnel fires often lead to vehicles being trapped inside, causing the “blocking effect”. In this work, fire plume behavior and the maximum ceiling temperature rise in a curved tunnel with blocked vehicles under longitudinal ventilation co...
Wildfires significantly impact ecosystems, economies, and biodiversity, particularly in fire-prone regions like the Caatinga biome in Northeastern Brazil. This study integrates machine learning with climate and land use data to model current and futu...
Fire detection and analysis have been a central focus of numerous studies due to their importance in potentially reducing fire’s harmful impact. Fire detection and classification using artificial intelligence (AI) methods have drawn significant...
Since the early 21st century, wildlands have witnessed an effusion of wildfires, with climate and social changes resulting in unanticipated wildfire activity and impact. For forest fires to be prevented and suppressed effectively, forest firefighting...
On the occasion of building fires, the risk of smoke, which adversely influences escape conditions, must be minimised. One way to reduce the risk is, for example, to pressurise the escape route in order to limit the infiltration of smoke. Careful det...
Understanding how fires impact the carbon cycle is crucial for developing effective climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. Although there is a substantial global body of research on fire carbon cycle (FCC), there are relatively few stud...
The increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires are affecting the use of wood products in rural areas as well as at the wildland–urban interface. The enhancement in wood products’ reaction/resistance to fire is a concern often raised...
Amid increasing deforestation, surface fires reaching the forest understory are one of the primary threats to Amazonian ecosystems. Despite extensive research on post-fire mortality in woody species, the literature on palm resilience to fire is scant...
There are a large number of steel components in substations/converter stations whose performance is seriously affected by being exposed to environmental corrosion and fire, endangering the operation of the substation/converter station. The current pr...
