Fire, Volume 8, Issue 5

This study evaluates the potential of hydrogen as a clean additive to conventional diesel fuel. Experiments were carried out on a single-cylinder, air-cooled diesel engine under half- and full-load conditions, across engine speeds ranging from 1000 t...

In recent years, agricultural landscapes have increasingly suffered from severe fire incidents, posing significant threats to crop production, economic stability, and environmental sustainability. Timely and precise detection of fires, especially at...

Ensuring the fire resistance and thermal stability of power cables is crucial for their reliable performance in fire environments, essential for sustainable power distribution, and allowing for more time to extinguish fires and for evacuation. This s...

This study investigates the suppression effect of ultrafine CaCO₃ powder on gas explosions through a series of experiments conducted in a medium-scale explosion tube (9.6 m in length) with varying concentrations of ultrafine CaCO₃. The gas explosion...

Penetration points on walls must include firestop measures to prevent the spread of fire. Countries worldwide have established standardized testing protocols for firestop methods, and firestop products must pass relevant tests before they can be used...

Dou-Gong brackets, the distinctive structural element in ancient Chinese architecture, fulfill critical roles in load transfer, span reduction, and decoration, making its preservation vital for safeguarding wooden heritage buildings. This study inves...

This study investigates the thermal behavior and ignition dynamics of DC series arcs in a lab-scale photovoltaic (PV) system. The impacts of current magnitude, dynamic current variations, and electrode gap on electrode surface temperatures are analyz...

As high-specification structures, civil aircraft hangars face significant fire risks, including rapid fire propagation and challenging rescue operations. The structural integrity of these hangars is compromised under high temperatures, potentially le...

In order to ensure the safety of methane/hydrogen, regular SiO₂ powder was modified. Fe(C₅H₅)₂/SiO₂ composite dry powder (CDP) was selected as the explosion-suppression material. Explosion-suppression experiments and numerical simulations were adopte...

In recent years, accelerated global climate change has precipitated an increased frequency of wildfire events, with their devastating impacts on ecological systems and human populations becoming increasingly significant. Satellite remote sensing tech...

Recent trends of intense forest fires in the Korean Peninsula have increased concerns about more extreme burning in the future under a warming climate. Accurate and reliable fire weather information has become more critical to reduce the risk of fore...

The primary atomization of planar liquid sheets near nozzle exits plays a critical role in the study of pressure-swirl atomizers, yet its intrinsic destabilization and breakup mechanisms remain insufficiently characterized due to the multi-scale natu...

To prevent the vertical spread of fire from flammable components in Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) modules during building fires, we applied a fire-resistant (FR) coating technology to the surface of BIPV modules, which are commonly used in...

A series of experiments were conducted on quartz sand beds wetted with transformer oil under initial temperatures of 80–140 °C and fuel–sand mass ratios of 1:4–1:8. The flame spreading process over the fine sand bed wetted with...

In order to analyze the explosion risk of the engine room, this paper uses CFD software to simulate the LNG leakage process in the engine room of the ship, and uses the combustible gas cloud obtained from the leakage simulation to simulate the explos...

The use of fiberglass blankets as fire suppression blankets to extinguish accidental cooking fires has been regulated and widely used, especially in homes and small firms and laboratories. Understanding the properties, which have significant effect o...

Fire safety is one of the critical concerns for the design and construction of modular structures. The lack of understanding of cavity fire spread in modular construction could create variations in the fire performance of structural members. This stu...

Wildfires represent a growing concern worldwide, and their frequency has increased due to climate change and human activities, posing risks to biodiversity and human safety. In the Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ), the combination of flammable ve...

It is noted that existing mine emergency-rescue algorithms have overlooked the requirement for multi-route sharing at critical nodes and have offered limited network visualisation. Consequently, a multi-team rescue-path-planning algorithm based on FA...

Agricultural fires significantly threaten global food systems, ecosystems, and rural economies, necessitating timely detection to prevent widespread damage. This study presents a lightweight and enhanced version of the YOLOv5s model, optimized for ea...

Forest fires are one of the risks with the greatest socio-territorial impact in island areas with Mediterranean precipitation characteristics. Regions such as the Canary Islands, densely populated and where there is no clear differentiation between l...

Compared to a single horizontal or inclined tunnel, a U-shaped underwater tunnel combines both types. If such tunnels catch fire, the resulting scenarios will lead to varying intensities of induced airflow, which significantly impact the internal hea...

The Wan’an Bridge, the longest wooden lounge bridge in China with a history of more than 900 years, was devastated by a catastrophic fire in 2022. This tragic event underscores the susceptibility of historical wooden structures to fire damage....

Global warming has driven a marked increase in forest fire occurrences, underscoring the critical need for timely and accurate detection to mitigate fire-related losses. Existing forest fire detection algorithms face limitations in capturing flame an...

Background: An effective risk assessment and management methodology is essential to minimize/mitigate health risks associated with firefighting activities. The use of a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) is mandatory during structure fires to...

This study analyzed the temperature characteristics of ceiling jets in corridor spaces by conducting experiments with varying heat release rates and ceiling heights and comparing the results with predictive equations based on the energy conservation...

Wildfires are a critical global threat, emphasizing the need for efficient detection systems capable of identifying fires and distinguishing fire-related from non-fire events in their early stages. This study integrates the swintransformer into the F...

Portugal’s increasing wildfire frequency has led to home destruction, large areas burned, ecological damage, and economic loss, emphasizing the need for effective fire exposure assessments. This study builds on a Canadian approach to wildfire e...

Live fuel moisture content (LFMC) significantly influences fire activity and behavior over different spatial and temporal scales. The ability to estimate LFMC is important to improve our capability to predict when and where large wildfires may occur....

Urban fire incidents pose significant risks to public safety and infrastructure, necessitating precise spatiotemporal prediction to enhance fire prevention and emergency response strategies. However, predicting fire occurrences remains a complex task...

Fire is a combustion reaction where fuel reacts with oxygen in the presence of heat, releasing energy as light, heat, and flames. The main components of fire are fuel, oxygen, and heat. All three components must be present to cause a fire. Fire is a...

This study addresses the problems of multi-source data redundancy, insufficient feature capture timing, and delayed risk warning in the prediction of gas concentration in fully mechanized coal-mining operations by constructing a three-pronged technic...

Obstacles “upstream” of the exit significantly impact evacuation efficiency and deserve attention. Based on the discrete cellular automaton model, this paper studies the impact of different obstacle settings on evacuation efficiency in di...

In the high-temperature cooking process of Chinese-style catering, the oil fume accumulates on the inner wall of the flue during the cooling process, forming grease stains, which can easily trigger flue fires and cause a kitchen fire. Statistics indi...

Forest fires are a critical ecological disturbance that significantly impact vegetation dynamics, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. This study investigates the impacts of forest fires in the Ghalahmah Mountains, Saudi Arabia, using remote sensing...

Firefighting foam is widely recognized for its excellent fire suppression performance. However, research on the effect of foam expansion ratio on the suppression efficiency of forest surface fires remains limited. In this study, the expansion ratio w...

Smoke detection is crucial for early fire prevention and the protection of lives and property. Unlike generic object detection, smoke detection faces unique challenges due to smoke’s semitransparent, fluid nature, which often leads to false pos...

As an emerging development field, in recent years, emergency industrial parks in China have faced increasingly complex and high-risk challenges. This article proposes the establishment of a scientific safety risk assessment and grading model to help...

Both single-skin and double-skin glass facades are extensively employed in commercial high-rise buildings and are gaining increasing popularity. However, the capability to deploy firefighting agents in such ultra-high structures remains limited and h...

Wildfire activity in the western United States has been on the rise since the mid-1980s, with longer, higher-risk fire seasons projected for the future. Prescribed burning mitigates the risk of extreme wildfire events, but such treatments are current...

With increasing wildfire severity and duration driven by climate change, accurately predicting fire behavior over extended time frames is critical for effective management and mitigation of such wildfires. Fire propagation models play a pivotal role...

Fires pose significant threats to human safety, health, and property. Traditional methods, with their inefficient use of features, struggle to meet the demands of fire detection. You Only Look Once (YOLO), as an efficient deep learning object detecti...

In order to study the characteristics of the thermal runaway process of a full-size prefabricated cabin energy storage system, a full-scale prefabricated cabin energy storage physical fire test platform was designed using 100% SOC energy storage batt...

Wildfires in the Mediterranean basin, particularly in Portugal, pose significant ecological challenges by altering landscapes and ecosystems. This study examines vegetation recovery in Serra do Açor seven years after the 2017 wildfires, using...