Postgraduate Course: Fire Science and Fire Dynamics (PGEE10002)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course is intended to provide the knowledge required for quantitative fire hazard analysis. Physical and chemical behaviour of combustion systems as well as the impact of fire on structures and materials will be addressed. The student will acquire skills for quantitative estimation of the different variables of fire growth. Basic principles of fire dynamics will be used to provide analytical formulations and empirical correlations that can serve as tools for design calculations and fire reconstruction. Focus will be given to the scientific aspects of fire but some basic features of fire safety engineering will be also developed. |
| Course description |
LECTURES
1. Introduction / scaling criteria
2. Basic fire chemistry, flames and explosions
3. Basic heat transfer, control volume models, conduction and radiation
4. Convective heat transfer
5. Ignition and burning
6. Fire spread and fire plumes
7. Smoldering and spontaneous ignition
8. Compartment fires & flashover
9. Ceiling jet, structural interactions, backdraft
10. Smoke
11. Tunnel fires (extra for MSc students)
TUTORIALS
1. Basic Fire Dynamics.
2. Applied Fire Dynamics.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 22,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 4.5,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
59 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
75 %,
Coursework
25 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The assessment will be made on the basis of: Intermittent assessment 20%; Degree examination 80% |
| Feedback |
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Fire Science and Fire Dynamics | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate an understanding of Combustion principles
- Pre-mixed flames: laminar flame speed, stoichiometry, deflagration, explosion, flammability limits and flame extinction
- Diffusion flames: Burke-Schumann formulation, flame location and mixture fraction
- Soot and Thermal radiation: factors influencing the production of soot and the radiation emitted by flames
- The effect of turbulence, Turbulence modelling
Demonstrate an understanding of the processes of Fire Growth and fire modelling
- Ignition: ignition of solid, liquids and gases
- Spontaneous ignition and smouldering: Semenov and Frank-Kamenetskii models, Diffusion-controlled ignition (smouldering) and gasification-controlled ignition (flames)
- Flame spread: Mechanisms of flame spread, upward, downward and lateral spread, Thermal models for flame spread and the blow-off limit
- Burning rate: Pyrolysis and gasification, Heat feedback and the mass transfer number
- Non-charring, charring, fire-retarded materials
- Combustible liquids: flash point and fire point, flame spread over liquid
Identify and quantify the impact of a Compartment on a fire
- Pool fires: turbulent plumes, flame height correlations, Ceiling jets
- Air entrainment and entrainment correlations, virtual origin
- The production of smoke: quantitative and qualitative analysis of smoke, CO, toxics and irritants, The concept of obscuration, extinction coefficients and its application to detection and visibility
- The effect of a compartment: Heat feedback effects on burning and burning rates, The concept of ventilation
- Fuel Limited Fire/Oxygen Limited Fire
- Flashover
- Backdraught
- Fully developed fire
Identify methods to quantify smoke movement
- Aspects of smoke management to control its movement, Passive and forced smoke evacuation calculations
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Richard Carvel
Tel: (0131 6)51 3576
Email: Ricky.Carvel@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Craig Hovell
Tel: (0131 6)51 7080
Email: c.hovell@ed.ac.uk |
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