Atmosphere Fire Interactions

A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 2135

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SPE UMR 6134 CNRS, University of Corsica, Campus Grimaldi, BP 52, 20250 Corte, France
Interests: wildland fires; fire safety; wildland urban interface; smoke characterization; aerosols; smoke dispersion

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Dear Colleagues,

Fires emit large smoke quantities into the atmosphere. This raises an important public health concern question regarding the major risk to the health of personnel and surrounding populations and the negative impacts on air quality. Smoke contains a complex mixture of gases, volatile organic (VOC) and semi-volatile (SCOV) compounds, and aerosols. In this Special Issue, we accept publications on several topics that combine fire and atmosphere, such as studies on fire weather, fire climate, smoke dispersion, smoke emission, smoke analysis, smoke toxicity, coupled atmosphere-fire simulation, and climate change, among others.

Dr. Toussaint Barboni
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • smoke
  • aerosols
  • VOC
  • gases
  • emission factor
  • particulate matter
  • coupled atmosphere-fire simulation

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Emission Factors for the Burning of Decking Slabs Made of Wood and Thermoplastic with a Cone Calorimeter
by Bruno Martinent, Karina Meerpoel-Pietri, Svetlana Petlitckaia, Toussaint Barboni, Virginie Tihay-Felicelli and Paul-Antoine Santoni
Fire 2023, 6(4), 162; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6040162 - 17 Apr 2023
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Abstract
Smoke is an important component of wildfires. Specifying the combustion process of different materials allows scientists to better prevent and adopt public health measures. This experimental study contributes to a better characterisation of the smoke emitted by two types of decking, wood and [...] Read more.
Smoke is an important component of wildfires. Specifying the combustion process of different materials allows scientists to better prevent and adopt public health measures. This experimental study contributes to a better characterisation of the smoke emitted by two types of decking, wood and thermoplastic, commonly used in terraces. Emission factors were characterised using a cone calorimeter for different incident fluxes ranging from 10 to 50 kW/m2. The study showed that compared to wooden (pine) decking, thermoplastic (polypropylene) decking produces more gases and aerosols, less VOCs, but with a chemical composition that is more carcinogenic. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Atmosphere Fire Interactions)
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