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Effect of wind and slope when scaling the forest fires rate of spread of laboratory experiments
Pérez Ramírez, Yolanda; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2010-06-18)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialThis paper uses the scaling laws obtained from a Froude Modeling perspective to analyze the variations experienced in the rate of spread of wind-aided and up-slope laboratory fires when changing the size of a scale model. ... -
Emissions from fires and carbon balance
Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2011-05)
Report de recerca
Accés restringit per acord de confidencialitatDocument del projecte: Preliminary CDM-NM to reduce GHG emissions with aerial firefighting -
Essential points in the emergency management in transport accidents which can lead to a bleve-fireball
Hemmatian, Behrouz; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2017)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialHuge amounts of hazardous materials are transported by rail and road, being from time to time involved in traffic accidents. In these cases, flammable materials such as, for example, LPG, can originate a severe accident ... -
Estudio experimental para evaluar la efectividad, sensibilidad y confiabilidad del sistema de detección de incendios PRODINT. Informe final
Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Agueda Costafreda, Alba (2019-07-25)
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Estudio experimental sobre la eficiencia de una lona ignífuga: temperaturas en el interior del vehículo y concentación de gases
Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2019-05-22)
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Evaluating wildfire vulnerability of Mediterranean dwellings using fuzzy logic applied to expert judgement
Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2023)
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Accés obertBackground. Wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires pose great challenges to firefighting services and there is a growing need for self-protection and the creation of fire-adapted communities. Aim. A tool that can aid homeowners ... -
Experimental analysis of real-scale burning tests of artificial fuel packs at the Wildland-Urban Interface
Vacca, Pascale; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Mata Miquel, Cristian; Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2022-02)
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Accés obertThe combustion of artificial fuels at Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) homeowner scale has been identified as a contributor to fire spread through a property, often leading to the ignition of structures, hence involving major ... -
Experimental and computational analysis of vertical jet fires of methane in normal and sub-atmospheric pressures
Rengel Darnaculleta, Francisco de Borja; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Casals Coll, Joaquin; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Hu, Longhua; Palacios Rosas, Adriana (Elsevier, 2020-04-01)
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Accés obertAccidental jet fires occurring in industrial facilities can involve severe consequences as they can trigger domino effect. The assessment of the flame-geometry descriptors of the jet can contribute to prevent flame impingement ... -
Experimental data and CFD performance for cloud dispersion analysis: The USP-UPC project
Miralles Schleder, Adriana; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Ramos Martins, Marcelo (2015-11-01)
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Accés obertForecasting the behaviour of a flammable or toxic cloud is a critical challenge in quantitative risk analysis. Recent literature shows that empirical and integral models are unable to model complex dispersion scenarios, ... -
Experimental methodology for characterizing flame emissivity of small scale forest fires using infrared thermography techniques
Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Rigueiro, A; Zárate López, Luis; Giménez, A; Arnaldos Viger, Josep; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2002-11-19)
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Accés obertAn experimental methodology based on thermography techniques has been developed and implemented with the aim of finding emissivity values of forest fuel flames. In this paper, previous works by different authors are ... -
Experimental study of horizontally lifted high-speed nonpremixed flame jets
Wang, Qiang; Mei, Xiaohan; Foroughi, Vahid; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Albadi, Ahmed; Zhang, Yuchun; Zhang, Yang (2023-01-01)
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Accés obertThis paper presents an experimental study on horizontally jet flames with rather high velocities (58 m/s-167 m/s, Reynolds number up to 3.0 × 105), which mainly fall in the momentum-controlled region. Both high-speed ... -
Experimental study of the emissivity of flames resulting from the combustion of forest fuels
Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Pérez, Yolanda; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2009-06)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialHeat transfer by radiation is taken into account in most models that predict the propagation of forest fires. This heat transfer mechanism is normally formulated according to the Stefan–Boltzmann law in terms of flame ... -
Explosión en un inmueble después de una fuga de agua
Rejat, Miquel; Queralt, Daniel; Sancho, Jordi; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2009)
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Fire as a primary event of accident domino sequences: The case of BLEVE
Hemmatian, Behrouz; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim (2015-07-01)
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Accés obertThe domino sequences found in major accidents have been analyzed for a large set of cases (330); the first event triggering the domino effect was an explosion or a fire, both with approximately the same contribution; the ... -
Fire intensity reduction in straw fuel beds treated with a long-term retardant
Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Pérez, Yolanda; Viegas, Domingo Xavier; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2011-01)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialThe present paper reports fire intensity reduction factors in partially retardant-treated straw fuel beds. Propagation experiments were carried out in the laboratory with fuel beds with a bulk density of 7.5 kgm_3 under ... -
Fire performance of residential shipping containers designed with a shaft wall system
Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale; Marimón Carvajal, Federico; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2022)
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Accés obertseven story building made of shipping containers is planned to be built in Barcelona, Spain. This study mainly aimed to evaluate the fire performance of one of these residential shipping containers whose walls and ceiling ... -
Fired equipment combustion chamber accidents: A historical survey
Espejo Delgado, Vicenç; Vílchez Sánchez, Juan Antonio; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2021-03)
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Accés obertA historical analysis was carried out on 189 accidents that occurred in gas and oil fuel fired equipment. The variation of frequency as a function of time, the main causes leading to a fire or an explosion, as well as the ... -
Fires at the wildland-industrial interface. Is there an emerging problem?
Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Paugam, Ronan Gabriel Michel; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2023-12-01)
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Accés obertOver the past years, wildfires have raged with unprecedented intensity across the world, becoming a growing problem, as weather conditions conductive to wildfire ignition and spread will increase in frequency and severity ... -
Flame filtering and perimeter localization of wildfires using aerial thermal imagery
Valero Pérez, Mario Miguel; Verstockt, Steven; Rios, Oriol; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Vandecasteele, Florian; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2017)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialAirborne thermal infrared (TIR) imaging systems are being increasingly used for wild fire tactical monitoring since they show important advantages over spaceborne platforms and visible sensors while becoming much more ... -
Flame structure modeling in forest fires
Domènech Jardí, Ruth; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Pérez Ramírez, Yolanda; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2009-06)
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Accés obertThis work in progress presentation wants to summarize the work done in flame modeling applied so far to forest fires and to present the on-going efforts at empirical and physical level that CERTEC is devoting to reach in ...