Fire has been an important part of the Earth system for over 350 Myr. Humans evolved in this fiery world and are the only animals to have used and controlled fire. The interaction of mankind with fire is a complex one, with both positive and negative aspects. Humans have long used fire for heating, cooking, landscape management and agriculture, as well as for pyrotechnologies and in industrial ...

Maritime safety is an ongoing process in shipping that constantly being improved by the modernization of equipment and constant improvements operators’ procedures training. However, human error remains a significant factor maritime accidents, as it contributes to 75% incidents. Addressing this problem, current paper shows proof principal for on-board fire monitoring extinguishing software agent...

A Robot suitable for automatically extinguishing the fire during fire accidents is presented in this paper. The Robot moves in the direction with respect to the fire intensity and avoids self-destruction using calcium silicate boards shielded with, that are capable of withstanding very high temperatures. The principle used, was designed and experimented at a temperature of 300°C. The temperatur...