Fire risk assessment in fire hazardous zones of gasoline stations

Fire and explosion risk assessment in a chemical company by the application of DOW fire and explosion index

Background: Fire and explosion hazards are extremely important in processing units. This study was performed to identify the risk centers, the potential damage caused by fire and explosion, and the days of production cessation in the processing company. Materials and Methods: The present qualitative case study was conducted using Dow’s index in 2015. The fire and explosion hazard index...

Investigation of forest fire hazard areas in Golestan province based on fire risk system index (FRSI) using the technique (GIS)

Abstract  Fire in natural resources is one of the crises that causes irreparable damage to ecosystems and the environment every year. The purpose of this research is to attempt to study areas of risk aversion and to prepare a map of forest fire hazard area by integrating topographic data and other additional information from a GIS system for Golestan province. In order to carry out this resear...

Literature Review of Fire Risk Assessment Methodologies

This paper provides a review of recent work in the area of fire risk assessment and its application. For completeness, the paper covers the following areas: basics of fire risk assessment, types of fire risk assessment methods, and comprehensive fire risk assessment models. The first section provides information on the definition of fire risk, measures of fire risk, acceptable fire risk levels,...

Layouts, solids, grammar interpreters and fire stations

Risk Assessment: a Forest Fire Example

The concern of this paper is obtaining baseline values for the number of forest fires as a function of time and location and other explanatories. A model is developed and applied to a large data set from Federal lands in the state of Oregon. To proceed the data are grouped into small spatial-temporal cells (voxels). Fires are rare so there are many of these voxels with no fires. In fact there a...