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  • Estimation of 3D shape and volume of fire plumes from multiple views 

    Blanco Arnaus, Júlia Ariadna; Pardàs Feliu, Montse; Casas Pla, Josep Ramon; Paugam, Ronan Gabriel Michel; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Wagner, Joel; Parsons, Russell; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2024)
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    This study evaluates deep-learning and Shape from Silhouette (SfS) methods for 3D reconstruction of smoke plumes. It demonstrates the deep-learning method’s superiority in cases with limited camera views and calibration ...
  • Comparison of machine learning models for prediction of safety distances in toxic dispersion scenarios 

    Papadaki, Artemis; Belda Ley, Mercedes; Bramato, Stefania; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Chimica (AIDIC), 2024-01-01)
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    In the recent years, Machine Learning (ML) has demonstrated a significant potential in handling big amounts of diverse data and generating rapid and accurate predictions. These capabilities, applied in risk analysis studies, ...
  • 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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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 ...
  • 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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    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 ...
  • 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)
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    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 ...
  • Asset integrity in the case of wildfires at wildland-industrial interfaces 

    Ricci, Federica; Scarponi, Giordano Emrys; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Cozzani, Valerio (2022-05-30)
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    Wildfires are uncontrolled fires involving the combustion of wild vegetation. When a wildfire front approaches the Wildland-Industrial Interface there can be a serious threat for process and storage equipment items located ...
  • Dual-responsive polypropylene meshes actuating as thermal and SERS sensors 

    Lanzalaco, Sonia; Gil Martínez, Pau; Mingot Béjar, Julia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Alemán Llansó, Carlos; Armelín Diggroc, Elaine Aparecida (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2022-06-02)
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    Polypropylene (PP) surgical meshes, with different knitted architectures, were chemically functionalized with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and 4-mercaptothiazole (4-MB) to transform their fibers into a surface enhanced Raman ...

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