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Piotr Gorzelanczyk and Henryk Tylicki
With the rapid increase in the number of vehicles on the road, traffic accidents have become a rapidly growing threat, causing the loss of human life and economic assets. The reason for this is the rapid growth of the human population and the development...
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Yao-Hua Ho and Yu-Jung Tsai
Climate-related natural disasters have affected the lives of thousands of people. Global warming creates warmer and drier conditions which increase the risk of wildfires. In large-scale disasters such as wildfires, search and rescue (SAR) operations beco...
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Thomas Neil McManus, Ana Rosa and Assed Haddad
This article describes the development and demonstration of a non-intrusive method for the quantitative determination of speed of air movement along the ground and inside an isolated subsurface structure, a type of confined space. Natural ventilation occ...
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Edward Hulida,Ivan Pasnak,Artur Renkas,Volodymyr Sharyy
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A mathematical model and methodology has been developed to determine the optimal amount of means of a fire-prevention system for protecting warehouses in enclosed spaces, on the basis of which it is possible to determine measures to improve this system, ...
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Jian Ji, Zhihao Ma, Jiajun He, Yingjun Xu and Zhiqiang Liu
As an independent building entity on the sea, the ship has a large number of internal electrical equipment and a compact space structure, which is prone to fire. This paper proposes a key technology of virtual dynamic escape of ships based on the fire sp...
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Sugeng Riyadi,Yogi Setaji,Hansyah Faisal Pamekas,Reza Setiawan
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The number of waste problems in Karawang are increasing but the handling is still limited. Every day, the Karawang community produces 920 tons of garbage. Of that amount, 400 tons of waste is sent to TPSA in Jalupang, while 520 tons of the remaining garb...
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Shenghua Liu, Wei Chen, Zengqiang Zhu, Sa Jiang, Tongtong Ren and Hejun Guo
Biodiesel is regarded to be a renewable, CO2 neutral and thus sustainable biological alternative diesel fuel. With attention to the reduction of petroleum import, PM 2.5 aerosol particles and the greenhouse effect gas CO2, biodiesel has drawn great resea...
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Kylie Mason, Kirstin Lindberg, Deborah Read and Barry Borman
Developing environmental health indicators is challenging and applying a conceptual framework and indicator selection criteria may not be sufficient to prioritise potential indicators to monitor. This study developed a new approach for prioritising poten...
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Yoshinori Matsuda, Koji Kakutani, Teruo Nonomura, Yoshihiro Takikawa, Kiyotsugu Okada, Manabu Shibao, Kazuhiro Miyama, Shinya Yokoo, Shin-ichi Kusakari and Hideyoshi Toyoda
An electrostatic apparatus was constructed to capture tobacco sidestream smoke. This apparatus consisted of a perforated polypropylene plate with metal spikes and a grounded metal net arrayed in parallel at a defined interval. Spikes were negatively char...
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Maria-Monika Metallinou and Torgrim Log
General fire risk and the special risk related to cold climate cellulosic drying processes are outlined. Four recent subzero temperatures fires are studied with respect to health impacts: a wooden village fire, a single wood structure fire, a wildland ur...
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