El CERTEC duu a terme recerca sobre el risc associat a activitats industrials i al transport de mercaderies perilloses i sobre el risc ambiental que suposa l'activitat humana. Les principals línies en les que es treballa són:
--Fiabilitat de processos: predicció de la probabilitat/freqüència dels accidents
--Modelització matemàtica dels accidents greus (incendis, explosions, fuites tòxiques). Avaluació dels seus efectes i de les seves conseqüències sobre persones, equipament i entorn.
--Modelització d'incendis forestals: comportament i característiques del foc, efecte dels productes retardants, simulacions CFD.
--Optimització d'instal·lacions: reducció del risc.
--Avaluació del risc ambiental: impacte ambiental en ports, risc ambiental de les substàncies químiques.

A més dels estudis teòrics, el CERTEC duu a terme experimentació a escala real (incendis de vessaments d'hidrocarburs, dolls de foc, núvols de gas, incendis forestals)i reduïda (taula de combustió per incendis forestals).

The objective of the Centre for Technological Risk Studies (CERTEC) is to carry out research in the fields of technological risk and environmental impact (mathematical modelling of major accidents, fires, explosions, toxic releases, transportation of hazardous materials, environmental impact, etc.)
The main research lines are the study of hydrocarbon pool-fires; the mathematical modelling of major accidents; risk analysis in the transportation of hazardous materials; the assessment of the environmental state of sea ports; and the study of wildfires.

The objective of the Centre for Technological Risk Studies (CERTEC) is to carry out research in the fields of technological risk and environmental impact (mathematical modelling of major accidents, fires, explosions, toxic releases, transportation of hazardous materials, environmental impact, etc.)
The main research lines are the study of hydrocarbon pool-fires; the mathematical modelling of major accidents; risk analysis in the transportation of hazardous materials; the assessment of the environmental state of sea ports; and the study of wildfires.

Enviaments recents

  • CFD simulation of explosions in fired combustion chambers 

    Espejo Delgado, Vicenç; Papadaki, Artemis; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (Associazione Italiana Di Ingegneria Chimica, 2023-01-01)
    Article
    Accés obert
    A wide range of equipment (boilers, furnaces, reformers, etc.) in industrial processes use fired combustion chambers to retrieve heat from a fuel. Although these systems have been used since long time and their safety has ...
  • 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)
    Article
    Accés obert
    The 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 ...
  • Computer vision-based characterization of large-scale jet flames using a synthetic infrared image generation approach 

    Pérez Guerrero, Carmina; Ciprián Sánchez, Jorge Francisco; Palacios, Adriana; Ochoa Ruíz, Gilberto; González Mendoza, Miguel; Foroughi, Vahid; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Rodríguez Hernández, Gerardo (Elsevier, 2024-01-01)
    Article
    Accés restringit per política de l'editorial
    Different kinds of fire accidents can occur during industrial activities that involve hazardous materials, such as jet fires, which are often involved in a process known as a domino effect that generates a sequence of other ...
  • 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)
    Article
    Accés obert
    As 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 ...
  • 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)
    Article
    Accés obert
    Over 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 ...
  • 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)
    Article
    Accés obert
    Background. 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 ...
  • 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)
    Text en actes de congrés
    Accés obert
    The 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 ...
  • 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)
    Text en actes de congrés
    Accés obert
    WUI 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 ...
  • 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)
    Comunicació de congrés
    Accés obert
    Wildfires 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 ...
  • 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)
    Article
    Accés obert
    This 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 ...
  • Gestión integral de incendios de interfaz urbano-forestal: el caso de estudio de los municipios de Riba-roja del Túria y Paterna 

    Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Dalmau Rovira, Ferran; Anguiano, Francisco Javier; Ruiz, Mario; Del Campo, Antonio; Hernández, Francesc; Galisteo, Arturo; Adobes, Vicente (Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales (SECF), 2022)
    Comunicació de congrés
    Accés restringit per política de l'editorial
    Europa se encuentra en un nuevo contexto de incendios forestales, principalmente debido al cambio climático, con un riesgo creciente de ocurrencia de eventos extremos con consecuencias fatales en la interfaz urbano-forestal. ...
  • Experimental large-scale jet flames’ geometrical features extraction for risk management using infrared images and deep learning segmentation methods 

    Pérez Guerrero, Carmina; Palacios, Adriana; Ochoa Ruíz, Gilberto; Foroughi, Vahid; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; González Mendoza, Miguel; Falcón Morales, Luis Eduardo (2022-12-01)
    Article
    Accés restringit per política de l'editorial
    Jet fires are relatively small and have the least severe effects among the diverse fire accidents that can occur in industrial plants; however, they are usually involved in a process known as the domino effect, that leads ...

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