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  • 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 ...

  • Analysis of ground-based Rn-222 measurements over Spain: filling the gap in southwestern Europe 

    Grossi, Claudia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vogel, Felix; Vargas Drechsler, Arturo; Zimnoch, M.; Wach, P.; Martín, J. E.; López Coto, Israel; Bolívar Raya, Juan Pedro; Morguí, Josep Anton; Rodó, Xavier (2016-09-27)
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    Harmonized atmospheric 222Rn observations are required by the scientific community: these data have been lacking in southern Europe. We report on three recently established ground-based atmospheric 222Rn monitoring stations ...

  • Advances and gaps in Natech quantitative risk analysis 

    Mesa Gómez, Adriana María; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim; Sánchez Silva, Mauricio; Muñoz Giraldo, Felipe (2021-12-26)
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    The occurrence of Natech (natural hazard triggering technological disasters) accidents has generated a reflection about the need to manage adequately the risk to people, to the environment, and to the infrastructures ...

  • 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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    Although 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 infrared video stabilization for aerial monitoring of active wildfires 

    Verstockt, Steven; Jiménez González, Daniel; Rios Rubiras, Oriol; Queen, Lloyd; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
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    Measuring wildland fire behaviour is essential forfire science and fire management. Aerial thermal infrared (TIR)imaging provides outstanding opportunities to acquire suchinformation remotely. Variables ...

  • Safety distances for storage tanks to prevent fire damage in Wildland-Industrial Interface 

    Scarponi, Giordano Emrys; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2021-03)
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    Wildfire occurrence frequency is increasing worldwide, generating more and more concern, especially in Wildland-Urban interfaces (WUI) and Wildland-Industrial Interfaces (WII) areas. Wildfires approaching WII can cause ...

  • Fired equipment combustion chamber accidents: A historical survey 

    Espejo Delgado, Vicenç; Vílchez Sánchez, Juan Antonio; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2021-03)
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    A historical analysis was carried out on 189 accidents that occurred in gas and oil fuel fired equipment. The variation of frequency as a function of time, the main causes leading to a fire or an explosion, as well as the ...

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