Resilience-based optimal firefighting to prevent domino effects in process plants

Domino effects triggered by fire can cause extremely severe damages to the chemical and process plants. In the need of a more effective prevention of fire domino effects, the present study focuses on firefighting which has received less attention compared to passive and active fire protection systems. Considering both the vulnerability and recoverability phases during fire domino effects, we have introduced a methodology for optimal identification of firefighting strategies so as to increase the resiliency of process plants in dealing with fire escalation scenarios. The area above the resilience curve (AARC), which is equal to the accumulation of loss of resilience over time, was considered as the metric to identify the optimal firefighting strategies. In other words, the strategy leading to the lowest AARC can be selected as the optimal strategy from a resiliency perspective.     

应用FDS软件对零售店铺火灾的数值模拟

客运总站等大空间建筑物中的小零售店铺通常会堆放许多可燃物。在此类建筑中都安装用于整个大厅的机械排烟系统似乎不太可行。因此,在店铺中建造了包括水喷淋以及排烟等主动式消防系统的屋顶,着火时挡板将落下封闭店铺。此时应关注在封闭的小空间内发生轰燃的可能性。如果店铺没有完全封闭,烟气可能会扩散到店铺以外的空间。文中用火灾场模拟软件FDS3．1模拟了消防系统启动前店铺内的火灾环境。模拟的结果将有助于评估制定的消防安全条例以及相关的设计参数。研究结果证实了如果着火的店铺没有完全封闭,更大的烟气羽流将会在店铺以外的大空间中形成。此外,文中还对控制店铺火灾用的排烟系统及水喷淋系统的性能进行了评估。     

山地历史小城镇的消防事故致因及其适应性对策研究

山地历史小城镇因区位偏远、地形地貌复杂、文物建筑密度大、居民文化水平偏低等多方面原因,导致消防工作难度大于其他小城镇。基于当前我国山地历史小城镇的消防建设工作处于被忽视的现状和小城镇建设步伐加快的背景,指出山地历史小城镇消防工作的紧迫性和重要性。以湖南洪江古城为例,针对山地历史小城镇的火灾特点,对其消防事故原因及其扑救障碍因素进行分析,提出山地历史小城镇消防工作的适应性对策。研究结果表明,山地历史小城镇的消防工作必须与保护不可再生文物建筑相结合,同时尊重山地生态环境,采用分区消防规划,结合科学的管理方法,做到消防方案的适应性与可行性。     

Scale considerations for fire testing of pressure vessels used for dangerous goods transportation

Fire protection of pressure vessels for transport and storage of dangerous goods is an active topic of research around the world. In many cases, organizations are conducting theoretical analysis followed by fire testing of thermal protection systems to determine how long they delay thermally induced failure, or if they eliminate failure. In most recent cases the organizations chose to do small scale fire testing because of the obvious cost savings.The question then is – are small scale experiments representative of highway tank truck and rail tank car scales? This paper discusses the scale issues involved. It goes on to show how identical fire heating conditions can give dramatically different failure times and modes of failure for small and large scale tanks if the conditions are not truly similar.     

三个机场候机厅的火灾安全分区评述

通过参观机场对公众开放的区域,对三个机场侯机厅的火灾安全分区进行了评述,这三个机场是,香港的旧启德机场,澳大利亚的悉尼机场和墨尔本机场,指出了一般的被动建筑设计和积极的火灾防护系统,按照估计的火灾载葆密度对零售区域商店的形状和商品进行了记录,利用消防工程计算程序FIRECALC对三种水喷头的启动时间进行了预测。     

不同区域古村镇消防行车时间统计特征研究

消防队介入时间是减少火灾损失、提高灭火成功概率的关键,作为消防队介入时间的重要部分,行车时间受到路况、天气等因素的影响,具有很大的不确定性.以位于远郊区和城市中心区域的两个典型古建筑群灭火救援的消防行车时间为研究对象,采用基于电子地图模拟导航的方法实时获取不同时刻消防站到古建筑群的行车时间,结合数据统计对比分析结果表明...     

危废焚烧工程火灾危险性分析及消防系统的选择

为更好地指导危废焚烧工程的消防设计,分析了《危险废物集中焚烧处置工程建设技术规范》(HJ/T 176—2005)、《建筑设计防火规范(2018年版)》(GB 50016—2014)、《石油化工企业设计防火标准(2018年版)》(GB 50160—2008)、《火力发电厂与变电站设计防火标准》(GB 50229—2019)、《钢铁冶金企业设计防火标准》(GB 50414—2018)和《火灾自动报警系统设计规范》(GB 50116—2013)的相关条文,明确了危废焚烧工程重点区域的火灾危险性,对各种火灾报警及灭火系统的适用性进行了对比,并对消防系统的选择提出了建议。     

火焰旋涡形成机制和运动形态分析

火焰旋涡研究在防火中是重要的课题。本文从涡量输运方程出发，讨论森林火灾中火焰旋涡形成机制、类型和运动形态，其结果可作为进一步研究飞火传播２规律和防止火灾蔓延的基础。     

Factors related to injury of shiftworking fire fighters in the Northeastern United States

Fire fighters, who provide society with an essential and life-saving service, are subjected to the effects of shiftwork and to the demands (physical and mental) and dangers of their profession, all of which can contribute to injuries. To identify factors involved in injuries to fire fighters, the timing, frequency, types, and places of occurrence of injuries sustained by fire fighters in three different municipal fire departments were examined. Data was obtained from analysis of Workers' Compensation forms. The most frequent injuries involved inhalation of hazardous materials and lacerations. Ninety-two percent of the injuries occurred at the fire scene, and their causes were related to fire fighting duties, such as rescue, extinguishment and overhaul. Although only 54% of fire alarms nationwide occurred from 12:00 to 16:00 and from 18:00 to 24:00 (42% of a 24 hour day), 68% of the injuries sustained by the fire fighters studied occurred during these time periods. Per alarm, at meal time or on the night shift fire fighters were more likely to be injured. Serious injuries were more prevalent at standardly accepted meal-times. The timing of the highest frequencies of injuries suggests that, due to the shiftwork nature of firefighting, both disruption of eating patterns and fatigue increase the risk of work-related injury to fire fighters. By understanding the contribution of factors, especially human ones, such as altered metabolism (due to disruption) and fatigue (due to time elapsed since awakening, alteration/disruption of sleep-wake pattern, or hypoglycaemia), interventions can be developed, which should decrease the incidence of injuries to fire fighters.     

Establishment of Aqueous Film Forming Foam extinguishing agent minimum supply intensity model based on experimental method

In recent years, serious fire and explosion accident in petrochemical storage tanks have taken place frequently. Therefore, increasing the firefighting force in petrochemical parks is particularly important. The ambition of the paper is mainly studying the supply intensity of Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) extinguishing agent. Fire extinguishing agent demand calculation method that can be capable of matching fire scale is established by carrying out series of fire extinguishing experiments. 6% AFFF is chosen to carry out three groups of experiments respectively: fire extinguishing agent fluidity determination, series groups of small size simulation oil pool fire and 177 square meters of large oil pool fire extinguishing experiment. The situation of fire extinguishing on fuel surface of AFFF can be explored through experimental means under cold and hot conditions. The data obtained from experiments prove a higher conformity between covering process and covering model under the cold condition. The model can predict the cold coverage of AFFF effectively. After unifying the supply flow from each experiment, the statistics can be fitted and come to the minimum supply intensity algorithm of AFFF against the target storage tank specifications. The algorithm is used to estimate the minimum supply intensity when extinguishing full liquid surface fire. This model also can be used as reference for petrochemical fire protection.     

高层建筑新型灭火装置的设计

高层建筑外围火灾灭火工作开展困难,为增强灭火效果,本文按照自上而下的灭火思路,探讨在高层建筑顶部设计一种新型灭火装置。该装置可迅速转向火灾一侧,升降到准确的高度,从外向内灭火。克服了现有云梯消防车存在的举高有限、供水器材的耐压强度不够等问题。该装置的设计可在紧急情况下弥补现有灭火设施的不足,为高层建筑外围灭火解决方案的完善提供了新的参考。     

要重视和加强发电企业的消防管理工作

发电厂到处都是易燃易爆物品 ,火灾事故发生率高 ,损失大 ,是防火重点单位。对全面加强发电厂的消防管理工作 ,有效地防止火灾事故发生 ,提出了一些建议和措施。     

Status of facilities for fire safety in hotels

This paper presents the results of a research work which analysed the status of fire precaution systems in hotels in Spain.Our field research involved visits to a total of 146 hotels during 2004. In order to examine the fire safety of these facilities we made use of the official checklist of the Spanish administrative body competent on the matter. The checklist monitors documentary and technical requirements as stated by the current fire protection regulations for buildings. As far as fire precaution systems are concerned, most of the defects detected had to do with either documentary issues (for example, absence of a technical installation project or certificates of compulsory maintenance contracts for the equipment) or technical issues, such as the absence of smoke detection and alarm devices, defective signage or difficult access to firefighting equipment (fire extinguishers and hydrants). Beach hotels present a higher safety level than city hotels. The lowest safety standards are found in isolated hotels, i.e., neither beach nor city hotels, usually in small towns or away from centres of population. Of all the hotels visited, the safety level was also higher in those subject to the regulations inspiring the checklist.     

高层住宅消防车通道设置问题探讨

通过对现行住宅及消防相关规范规定、条文解释的比照与分析,结合即将出台《建筑设计防火规范》、《高层民用建筑设计防火规范》合并的拟修订《建筑设计防火规范》稿及相关规定,根据住宅火灾危害表征及建设工程消防设计审核实践工作经验总结,提出对于高层住宅建筑消防车通道设置,建议可按现行《住宅建筑规范》规定执行,同时充实了新的消防登高车操作面、坡度、场地大小等要求,使得高层住宅消防车通道要求具体化。     

火灾风险评估相关概念辨析

对易于混淆的火灾风险评估相关概念进行辨析,界定一些概念的内涵和外延。根据防灭火涉及的不同因素,提出了火灾风险源、狭义火灾风险和广义火灾风险的概念。从3个层次上对火灾危险、火灾危险性和火灾风险进行阐释。分析结果表明,有关概念外形和语义上的相似性,不利于火灾风险评估的推广与普及,现行术语需要及时进行修订和统一;在危险源概念从理论向实践传播存在困难的情况下,采用由实践需要向理论提升而创新的风险源概念,有利于扩大火灾风险评估的适用性;从3个层次对火灾危险、火灾危险性和火灾风险进行界定,可促进对火灾风险评估的理解;狭义火灾风险与广义火灾风险概念的提出,可以为根据火灾风险评估的目标对象所处的不同阶段,选择使用不同的评估方法提供有益的参考。     

火焰撞击受限顶棚条件下顶棚最高温度数值模拟研究

顶棚下方最高温度是隧道火灾发展蔓延时的重要参数。针对火焰撞击顶棚并受到顶棚侧墙限制的强羽流驱动的顶棚射流,利用FDS模拟了18种缩尺寸隧道火灾工况,研究了顶棚下方最高温度随着火源功率、火源与顶棚距离的变化规律。结果表明:火焰撞击区域附近顶棚下方温度随着火源功率的增大而降低,随火源与顶棚距离的增大而升高;相反,在远离火源区域顶棚下方的温度随火源功率增大而升高,随火源与顶棚距离增大而降低;同时,通过分析隧道中心面上顶棚下方温度分布规律,提出了火焰撞击受限顶棚时顶棚下方最高温升的预测模型,研究结果能为实际的隧道消防提供一些参考。     

Development of a 3D risk analysis technique for fire disaster and its application on accident simulation of a public site

In this research, we constructed a three-dimensional fire risk analysis technique (3D-FRAT) for common building fires. To demonstrate its effect, the 3D-FRAT employed a self-developed 3D risk-calculating module in combination with the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) software to simulate the Welcome Restaurant accident that happened on February 15, 1995 in Taichung City, Taiwan. This study only focuses on thermal radiation and provide a preliminary method to quantify a fire risk. Different firefighting equipment that comply with the related building and fire-preventive regulations have been used in the simulations to test their mitigating effectiveness on the accident. The results were shown by animation, 3D pictures, and sliced pictures to facilitate the researchers’ understanding of human hazards caused by thermal radiation or smoke in a specific fire accident. The minimal personnel escaping times for different hazardous factors were estimated; various firefighting designs that can reduce loss of human life and property were also perused. According to the simulation results, the individual risk values in Welcome Restaurant were between 3.108 × 10⁻⁹ to 2.719 × 10⁻⁵ (deaths/year). It is foreseeable that the 3D-FRAT can become a useful tool for related organizations to choose better fire-resistant buildings or fire-fighting equipment in the future.     

建筑物火灾时人员的认知水平对疏散心理和行为影响研究

在建筑物火灾中,个体行为因人员的个体特征、认知水平、社会特质、面临不同危险局面等因素的不同会呈现出极大的差异性。因此,在建筑物火灾中,人员应急疏散策略和方案在充分考虑紧急情况下外界环境因素的同时,还必须综合考虑处于火灾等紧急情况下的人员心理和行为特征。本研究是在大量调查问卷获得的数据和资料的基础上,基于一定的数学模型,利用相应的统计分析方法,主要讨论体现人员认知水平的文化程度、消防知识与经验二个因素对疏散心理和行为的影响特点。研究结果将充实我国人员疏散心理和行为反应数据库,为建筑防火性能化设计和人员消防培训提供基础数据和指导。     

Implementing risk management to reduce injuries in the U.S. Fire Service

IntroductionRisk management, a proactive process to identify and mitigate potential injury risks and implement control strategies, was used to reduce the risk of occupational injury in a fire department. The objective of this research was to study the implementation of the risk management process for future replication. A second objective was to document changes in fire personnel's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to the selected control strategies that were implemented as part of the risk management process.MethodA number of control strategies identified through the risk management process were implemented over a 2-year period beginning in January 2011. Approximately 450 fire personnel completed each of the three cross-sectional surveys that were administered throughout the implementation periods. Fire personnel were asked about their awareness, knowledge, and use of the control strategies.ResultsFire personnel were generally aware of the control strategies that were implemented. Visual reminders (e.g., signage) were noted as effective by fire personnel who noticed them. Barriers to use of specific control strategies such as new procedures on the fireground or new lifting equipment for patient transfer included lack of knowledge of the new protocols, lack of awareness/access to/availability of the new equipment, and limited training on its use. Implementation challenges were noted, which limited self-reported adherence to the control strategies.ConclusionsFire personnel generally recognized the potential for various control strategies to manage risk and improve their health and safety; however, implementation challenges limited the effectiveness of certain control strategies. The study findings support the importance of effective implementation to achieve the desired impacts of control strategies for improving health and safety.Practical applicationsEmployees must be aware of, have knowledge about, and receive training in safety and health interventions in order to adopt desired behaviors.     

浅谈脱硫系统的防火设计

火灾报警及消防系统是人身、设备安全的重要保证.针对脱硫系统的具体实际,对火灾报警及消防系统设计进行了探讨,并给出一定的设计参考意见.