Environmental Benefits of Rapid Fire Detection
(2023) In TVBB- Abstract
- A study has been undertaken to investigate the environmental implication of early detection of a fire for the environmental impact of the fire when taking into account the global impact of the intervention itself and the need to replace building and contents as a function of the size and duration of the fire. The various scenarios investigated show that the greatest benefit is gained if a fire is detected early and can be extinguished while small without the intervention of the fire service. Significant savings can also be made if a sprinkler can keep the fire small while the fire service is on their way to the fire so that they meet a small fire which they can rapidly extinguish once they are on the scene. The methodology is based on an... (More)
- A study has been undertaken to investigate the environmental implication of early detection of a fire for the environmental impact of the fire when taking into account the global impact of the intervention itself and the need to replace building and contents as a function of the size and duration of the fire. The various scenarios investigated show that the greatest benefit is gained if a fire is detected early and can be extinguished while small without the intervention of the fire service. Significant savings can also be made if a sprinkler can keep the fire small while the fire service is on their way to the fire so that they meet a small fire which they can rapidly extinguish once they are on the scene. The methodology is based on an assumption of a single enclosure size, a generic fire load, detection and response. Future work should investigate different building typologies, fire loads and response types. (Less)
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- Mcnamee, Robert LU ; Mcnamee, Margaret LU ; Meacham, Brian LU and Amon, Francine
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-12
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- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
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- TVBB
- issue
- 3257
- pages
- 50 pages
- publisher
- Lund University
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 63a0ce10-c013-4ace-b26e-3750d280a87b
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- 2023-12-11 16:04:41
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