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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. ... -
Effects of long-term forest fire retardants on fire intensity, heat of combustion of the fuel and flame emissivity
Agueda Costafreda, Alba (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-10-30)
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Accés obertCada any milers d'hectàrees forestals es destrueixen a causa dels incendis forestals. Investigar quins són els mecanismes que controlen la ignició i la propagació dels incendis forestals és necessari per planificar estratègies ... -
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 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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
First estimation of CH4fluxes using the222Rn Tracer Method over the central Iberian Peninsula
Grossi, Claudia; Vogel, Felix; Morguí, Josep Anton; Curcoll Masanes, Roger; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Batet Torrell, Óscar; Nofuentes, Manel; Occhipinti, Paola; Vargas Drechsler, Arturo; Rodó, Xavier (WIT Press, 2014)
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Accés obertEmissions of CH4 over the central Iberian Peninsula have been estimated experimentally for the first time using the Radon Tracer Method (RTM), which uses the atmospheric noble radioactive gas 222Rn as an auxiliary tracer. ... -
Fuel load sampling of a Cupressus sempervirens hedge in Parc de Cervantes, Barcelona
Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2019-10-25)
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Accés obertIn this document, data from three destructive samplings performed in a Cupressus sempervirens hedge in Parc de Cervantes (Barcelona) are shown; the methodology applied is also described. Measurements of fuel load have ... -
Fuzzy approach for risk assessment of brominated flame retardants in aquatic ecosystems
Pujolasus, Edgar; Betró, S; Seguí Julià, Xavier; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim; Ocampo-Duque, W; Rudolph, I; Barra, Ricardo; Páez, M; Barón, E; Santín, G; Eljarrat, Ethel; Barceló Cullerés, Damià; Darbra Roman, Rosa Maria (2012)
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Accés obertBrominated flame retardants (BFR) are pollutants that represent a threat to both human health and environment due to their industrial use, their persistence and their ability to bioaccumulate and biomagnify in food chains, ... -
Fuzzy model for risk assessment of persistent organic pollutants in aquatic ecosystems
Seguí, Xavier; Pujolasus, Edgar; Betrò, S.; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim; Ocampo-Duque, W.; Rudolph, I.; Barra, Ricardo; Páez, M.; Barón, E.; Eljarrat, Ethel; Barceló Cullerés, Damià; Darbra Roman, Rosa Maria (2013)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialWe developed a model for evaluating the environmental risk of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to aquatic organisms. The model is based on fuzzy theory and uses information provided by international experts through a ... -
Investigación en incendios forestales: quemas experimentales en Australia
Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Cubells, Miquel; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Pérez, Yolanda; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2011)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialEn este trabajo se muestra un ejemplo de lo que se está haciendo actualmente desde el mundo de la investigación para contribuir en la mejora del conocimiento que se tiene del comportamiento de los incendios forestales. ... -
Methodology for the analysis of structural vulnerability of WUI settlements
Vacca, Pascale; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Caballero Valero, David; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2023-10-01)
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Accés obertAs WUI fires have become a global concern, there is a growing need for engineering methodologies that lead to proactive fire management not only at the landscape level, but at all WUI scales. This paper presents a quantitative ... -
Modelos de combustible para caracterizar el comportamiento de los incendios en regenerados clareados de pino carrasco
Domènech Jardí, Ruth; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Sans, Ariadna; Navascués, Pablo; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2013)
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Performance analysis of a self-protection system for vehicles in case of WUI fire entrapment
Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Sebastià, Joan; Mata Miquel, Cristian; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2020-04-25)
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Accés obertWe present the experimental performance analysis of a fire protection fabric for cars designed to protect people's life in case of fire entrapment. Two experimental burns were executed to simulate heat and smoke exposure ... -
Performance analysis of a self-protection system for vehicles in case of WUI fire entrapment
Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Sebastià, Joan; Mata Miquel, Cristian; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Valero Pérez, Mario Miguel; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2019)
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Accés obertSheltering inside a civilian vehicle has proved to be a high risk strategy in case of wildfire entrapment. Survival is by no means guaranteed, especially in moderate to high-intensity wildfires. However, vehicles do offer ... -
Pile burning of cutting debris in stands of hazel (Corylus avellana): an experimental study of smouldering combustion toward a validation of burning protocol
Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Pérez, Yolanda; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Miralles, Marta (2010-01)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialSmoulderingcombustioninburningpileswasexperimentallyinvestigatedbystudyingtemperature changes insixpilesof2mofdiameterofcuttingdebrisofhazel(Corylusavellana) forthreedaysafter extinction.ThepilesweremonitoredusinganIRc ...