This course aims to extend the knowledge about fire protection in industry based on the practice in EU, as well as to provide basic knowledge on fire modeling. It starts with the theory of fire and extinguishment and explains sources of risk and fire protection installations. Fire modeling elaborates modeling principles and gives number of examples explaining use of different fire models.

Main topics of the course include:

• Fire Protection in Industry, Fundamentals (Structural fire protection, Theory of fire, Fire protection installations, Risks of fire, Theory of extinguishment, Sources of risks...)
• Fire protection and prevention (Fire Prevention - Reducing ignitability and combustibility of materials, Prevention of ignition sources...; Fire Protection - Reaction to fire of construction materials, Fire resistance of construction materials, Extinguishing systems, Smoke, Simple chemical models...)
• Fire protection concepts and application (Introduction, Behavior of structures in fire, Extinguishing systems...)
• Industrial fires (Industrial fires vs. fires in housing, Building regulations examples, Performance based design, Determination of fire load, Silo fires...)
• Fire modeling (Basic principles, Application of fire modeling, The phenomenon of a fire, Hierarchy of fire models, CFD models, A brief survey on numerical methods, Computational examples...).

Target participants

The contents of the course is structured to satisfy the needs of

• engineers from the private and the public sector
• regulators
• HSE practitioners
• academics and researchers from industry
• design / operations / maintenance staff from all sectors
• consultants in the field SHE / Risk assessment / Safety.

Benefits

At the end of the course students are expected to:

• have extended knowledge about fire theory
• understand basics of fire prevention and protection measures in industry as well as of structural fire protection and fire protection concepts
• know principles of fire modeling and be familiar with fire models

Lecturer:

Prof. Ulrich Krause, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil
Steinbeis University Berlin and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg