Postgraduate Course: Principles of the Fire Laboratory (MSc) (PGEE11244)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The course will introduce students to the measurement techniques used in fire science. Students will learn about the physical principles underpinning commonly used diagnostics. They will learn how to write bespoke programmes to communicate with instruments and make measurements. They will learn about best practice on the structuring, storage and preservation of data and in the limit of applicability of data types. They will perform basic analysis on exemplar data. |
| Course description |
The course will focus on the learning the principles required to undertake successful work in a fire laboratory. Topics will be:
Fundamentals of data collection - reliability and accuracy, archiving, structuring and preservation.
Interfacing with instruments - communication, calibration and conversion.
Measuring temperature _ principles of thermocouples.
Measuring heat flux - principles of heat flux gauges.
Measuring gaseous combustion products - GC-MS, spectroscopic techniques, oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.
Measuring fire-induced flows - Differential pressure, hot wire, laser doppler.
Calculating fire size - calorimetry.
Video analysis techniques - digital image correlation, flame analysis.
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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 2024/25, 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,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 76,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
0 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Written Exam 0%
Practical Exam 0%
Coursework 100% |
| Feedback |
Mid semester feedback |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain the operational principles of commonly used fire science measurement techniques
- Programme data logging equipment to measure, record and store data
- Analyse raw readings to quantify and present measurements of fire phenomena
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Measurement Techniques,Data recording,Data Structuring,Data Processing |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Rory Hadden
Tel: (0131 6)50 5944
Email: R.Hadden@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Wendy McCartan
Tel:
Email: wmccart2@ed.ac.uk |
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