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  • 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 ...

  • 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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    The 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 ...

  • An experimental study on geometrical features of horizontal sonic and subsonic jet fires 

    Foroughi, Vahid; Palacios Rosas, Adriana; Mata, Christian; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim (2022-05-01)
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    Among the major accidents that can occur in process plants and in the transportation of hazardous materials, those involving fire are the most frequent ones. And one type of fire which has been the origin of severe accidents ...

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