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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 ... -
Pile burning of cutting debris in stands of hazel (Corylus avellana): An experimental study of smouldering combustion towards the validation of a burning protocol
Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Pérez Ramírez, Yolanda; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Miralles, Marta; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2010-01)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialSmouldering combustion in burning piles was experimentally investigated by studying temperature changes in six piles of 2 m of diameter of cutting debris of hazel (Corylus avellana) for three days after extinction. The ... -
Propietats extrínseques del combustible de les parcel les estudiades
Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Domènech Jardí, Ruth; Agueda Costafreda, Alba (2010-01-18)
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Accés restringit per acord de confidencialitatL’objectiu del present document és obtenir una bona caracterització de les propietats extrínseques del combustible present a les parcel·les d’estudi, les propietats intrínseques quedaran recollides en el DR3 (Propietats ... -
Propietats intrínseques de restes d’aclarida en regenerats de pi blanc. Mètodes i resultats experimentals.
Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Domènech Jardí, Ruth; Agueda Costafreda, Alba (2010-03-24)
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Accés restringit per acord de confidencialitatL’objectiu d’aquest document és recopilar els resultats del treball realitzat en el Bloc 3 “Propietats intrínseques” del projecte IRVA. Aquests resultats han de servir juntament amb d’altres paràmetres característics de ... -
Revisiting the dispersion safety factor (DSF) for vapor clouds of liquefied flammable gases (LNG and propane)
Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Subirana Puigcasas, Joan; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Miralles Schleder, Adriana; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2020-08-01)
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Accés obertThe concept of the Dispersion Safety Factor (DSF) was introduced by Vílchez et al., 2013, Vílchez et al., 2014 and has been revisited in this work. The DSF is defined as the ratio between the flammable region of the vapor ... -
Risk Assessment of water effluents in Catalan (NE Spain) waste-water treatment plants based on E-PRTR data
Ginebreda Marti, Antoni; Guillén, Daniel; Martínez, E.; Darbra Roman, Rosa Maria; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Barceló Cullerés, Damià; Moragas, Lucas; Robusté, Jordi (2011)
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Study of the daily and seasonal atmospheric CH4 mixing ratio variability in a rural Spanish region using Rn-222 tracer
Grossi, Claudia; Vogel, F. R.; Curcoll, Roger; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vargas Drechsler, Arturo; Rodó, Xavier; Morguí, Josep Anton (2018-04-26)
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Accés obertThe ClimaDat station at Gredos (GIC3) has been continuously measuring atmospheric (dry air) mixing ratios of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), as well as meteorological parameters, since November 2012. In this study ... -
Technical Note TN 2.2 Fuel load sampling of a Cupressus sempervirens hedge
Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2019-08-02)
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Accés obertIn this document, data from a destructive sampling of a Cupressus sempervirens hedgerow are shown, as well as the followed methodology. Measures of sizes and weights have been taken. With these data, moisture content, fuel ... -
Technical Note TN 2.4. Fuel sampling, tree ignition and burning tests in ADAI facilities
Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba (2019-12-04)
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Accés obertIn this document, the followed methodology to characterize several natural fuels (trees of Cupressus arizonica, Cupressocyparis leylandii, Prunus laurocerasus and Thuja occidentalis) is presented. Also, the ignition method ... -
Temporal and spatial variability of ground level atmospheric methane concentrations in the Ebro River Delta
Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Grossi, Claudia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Rioja, Eva (2017-07)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialDeltas provide many worthy ecosystem services. Yet, delta basins are quite vulnerable, especially in the face of climate change, which can affect the outcome of both agriculture and biodiversity. Moreover, rice paddy ... -
The “pudding effect” to promote solar-driving water purification
Mingot Béjar, Julia; Lanzalaco, Sonia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Torras Costa, Juan; Armelín Diggroc, Elaine Aparecida (John Wiley & sons, 2023-12-21)
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Accés obertThe use of solar energy (natural) and synthetic solar absorber hydrogels (SAHs) for purification of brackish water represent a challenge. Here in, this work reports the unexpected effect achieved for water desalination ... -
Thermal effects of a sonic jet fire impingement on a pipe
Foroughi, Vahid; Palacios Rosas, Adriana; Barraza, C; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Mata Miquel, Cristian; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim (2021-07)
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Accés obertAlthough the effects of jet fires are often limited to rather short distances, if their flames impinge on a pipe or a vessel collapse can occur in very short times. In such cases, the heat flux on the affected equipment ... -
Thermal radiation model for dynamic fireballs with shadowing
Bonilla Martinez, Juan M.; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Muñoz, Miguel; Vílchez Sánchez, Juan Antonio; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2019-08-01)
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Accés obertThis paper presents a new methodology for determining the thermal radiation of dynamic fireballs considering the presence of obstructions (i.e. safety barrier, topographic elevation). The specific type of obstruction ... -
Using fuzzy logic to evaluate fire vulnerability of dwellings located at the wildland-urban interface
Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2022)
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Accés obertWUI fires are posing great challenges to firefighting services, which are overwhelmed by the need to not only suppress the fire, but also protect the community. The need for self-protection is therefore growing, as is the ... -
Variability of methane fluxes at the Ebro Delta due to rice field: comparison between inventories and Radon Tracer Method based results.
Curcoll Masanes, Roger; Morguí, Josep-Anton; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vargas Drechsler, Arturo; Grossi, Claudia (2023)
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Accés obertThe Ebro River Delta, in the northwestern Mediterranean basin, has an extension of 320 km2 and is mainly covered by rice fields. Rice fields are known to be one of the main sources of anthropogenic methane emissions, and ... -
Vulnerability analysis to wildland- urban interface fires in metropolitan areas: an integrated approach
Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Caballero Valero, David; Rodríguez Giralt, Israel; Arenas Conejo, Miriam; Morán Núñez, Francisca Josefa; Canaleta Garcia, Guillem; Vacca, Pascale; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2022)
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Accés obertWildfires pose a growing threat to populated areas around the world and especially in the Mediterranean Basin. Numerous Mediterranean cities have typically developed neighbourhoods that expand into forest land in which ... -
Wildland–urban interface fires in spain: summary of the policy framework and recommendations for improvement
Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Caballero Valero, David; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Dalmau Rovira, Ferran; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2019-01-01)
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Accés obertSouthern Europe is recurrently being hit by forest fires affecting wildland–urban interface (WUI) areas which, particularly in the last decade, have resulted in tremendous consequences. In the years to come, self-protection ... -
WUI state of the art and regulatory needs in Europe
Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Scarponi, Giordano Emrys; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba (2019-08-31)
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Accés obertThe document summarizes the state of the art of the regulationsrelevant to WUI in Europe, providing an organized set of references to the specific regulatory documents. It is focused on three main relevant topics: i) ...