Fire and Explosions Risk in Industrial Processes
A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255). This special issue belongs to the section "Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 10815
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fire safety science; dust explosions; energy; industrial safety
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Interests: explosion/flammability behaviour of of gas, liquid, dust and hybird mixtures; H2 production, storage and safety; CFD models for the simulation of reactive, laminar and turbulent, stationary and non-stationary flows; catalytic micro-reactors; dynamic fire stability; risk assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global challenge constituted by fire and its effect on the human environment is still present although technologies and progress in protection and mitigation are improving. Industrial structures and facilities are those more prone to fire and explosion risk, in particular chemical plants.
The processing industry is associated with high-injury high-frequency accidents, with respect to events in civilian buildings, while major episodes also occurred in industrial plants, such as the recent Beirut harbor explosion (2020) and Kaohsiung gas explosions (2014). Economic major losses are associated with non-residential premises.
The advance in progress and the rise of emerging technologies, as for energy infrastructures, is critical. In fact, sustainable processes and materials could mislead fire and explosion risk assessment with the paradigm “greener means safer” and “safer means greener”. Fire safety science needs to deal with the enhancing risks posed by the adoption of new technologies (H2, fuels, energy storage, nanomaterials) to investigate their hazard potential and with respect to traditional processes.
I am pleased to invite you to submit your contribution to this Special Issue, which is intended to give an overview of current fire and explosion risk studies and safety data related to the industrial context. This will be published in the Fire journal, including perspectives on fire generating in the industrial landscapes and its interaction with human communities, structural response to fires on industrial premises, and fires from emerging storage technologies (such as batteries).
This Special Issue aims to cover the above-cited themes and both original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas and topics (suggested) may include the followings:
- Manufacturing plant fire causes, mitigation and protection;
- Fire risk assessment study for emerging energy storage systems (batteries, metal capacitors, H2 storage);
- Industrial fire effects on surrounding human environment (interactions with community emergency management, social impact, fire emergency strategy management);
- Traditional industry (oil and gas, chemicals) emerging fire and explosion risks due to new technologies, new materials (nanomaterials, bio-based materials, metal-polymer composites), external events (war crisis), change in safety management, proximity with high-density population areas (gas networks, hazardous material transportation);
- Industrial fire and explosion case studies and investigations
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Enrico Danzi
Prof. Dr. Almerinda Di Benedetto
Dr. Maria Portarapillo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fire & explosion
- industrial safety
- fire safety science
- fire risk management
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