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...

W I T H T H E E N A C T M E N T in October of amendments to the Massachusetts law, the main State legislative ac t iv i ty of 1941 affecting unemployment compensation came to an end. D u r i n g the year the legislatures of 4 3 States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawai i , meeting in regular sessions, revised their unemployment compensation laws in some respect, and the United States Congr...

Forest fires are a major environmental issue, creating economical and ecological damage while endangering human lives. Fast detection is a key element for controlling such phenomenon. To achieve this, one alternative is to use automatic tools based on local sensors, such as provided by meteorological stations. In effect, meteorological conditions (e.g. temperature, wind) are known to influence ...

1.0 BACKGROUND By letters dated March 13, 1998, and March 12, 1999, PECO Energy Company (the licensee) submitted a response to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) Request for Additional Information (RAI) dated November 14, 1997, related to Generic Letter (GL) 92-08, "Thermo-Lag 330-1 Fire Barriers," for Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station (Peach Bottom), Units 2 and 3, and Limerick G...

Rice University turned up the heat hosting the 2011 Chefs Under Fire Regional Culinary Competition presented by the Keeper Collection at East Servery last Sunday. Executive Chef of Azuma Sushi & Robata Bar Harold Wong was declared winner for his Cap'n Carpaccio dish — sliced sirloin flap steak with orange jam, micro shiso, garlic chips, fried leeks and ito togarashi served with sliced eggplant ...

Optimal deployment of limited emergency resources in a large-scale area is of interests to public agencies at all levels. In this paper, the problem of allocating limited emergency service vehicles including fire engines, fire trucks and ambulances among a set of candidate stations is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming model, in which the objective is to maximize the service cover...

Line type heat detectors (LTHD) are used since many years in road tunnels for reliable fire detection. Today various systems as semiconductor sensor cables, fiber-optic sensor cables, and pneumatic copper tube systems are in use. In addition, after first pilot installations done in the last years, the demand for applications of LTHD in railroad and metro tunnels as well as in underground statio...

[1] We examined changes in the timing and frequency of major midlatitude cyclones (MLCs) during August through October for eight climate stations in the Northern Rockies from 1900–2004. As MLCs can effectively diminish fire activity through both cooler temperatures and higher humidity/precipitation, we also determined if area burned by wildfires from 1940–2004 was correlated with the timing and...

moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (modis) have been widely used for active fire detection in the world as the specific channels used for the fire detection have made the modis images applicable. the main objective was to explore the capability of modis images for active fire detection in the zagross forests using the modis contextual algorithm. the study was performed in the marivan...

Although a many studies concerning crop residue burning have been conducted, the influence of crop residue burning on local PM2.5 concentrations remains unclear. The number of crop residue burning spots was the highest in Heilongjiang province and we extracted crop residue burning spots for this region using MOD14A1 (Thermal Anomalies & Fire Daily L3 Global 1 km) data and national land cover da...