2021 AUBE/SUPDET Papers

Suppression, Detection and Signaling Research and Applications Conference (SUPDET 2021) &
17th International Conference on Automatic Fire Detection (AUBE '21) Papers

All papers are in PDF format

Detection

Planning of Efficient Plant-technical Fire Protection - Examples of System Solutions from a Detection Point of View
Jörg Kelleter, GTE Industrieelektronik GmbH, Viersen, Germany

The Quantification of the Reduction of Fire Damage due to Fire Protection Measures
Sebastian Festag, vfdb Department 14, Sulzburg, Germany

Analysis of the Reliability of Automatic installed Fire Detection and Fire Alarm Systems
Sebastian Festag, Christopher Lipsch University of Wuppertal, Germany

Detection of CO – Results of the Research Project TEBRAS
Sarah-K. Hahn, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Institute of Instrumental & Environmental Technology, Magdeburg, Germany; Marion Meinert, Hekatron Vertriebs GmbH, Sulzburg, Germany; Sebastian Festag, Hekatron Vertriebs GmbH, Sulzburg, Germany

Characterizing Smoke Generator Smoke Transport for Aircraft Cargo Smoke Detection Certification
Matthew Karp, Federal Aviation Administration, Atlantic City, New Jersey; André Freiling, Airbus Operations GmbH, Bremen, Germany

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Visibility in Compartment Fires
Lukas Arnold, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal; Alexander Belt, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Thorsten Schulze, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany; Abdul Wahab Mughal, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal

Sound Pressure Levels and Alarm Tone Waking Effectiveness
Joshua Dinaburg, Jensen Hughes, Baltimore

Real-Time, Low-Cost, Multiple Criteria Gas Sensing for Fire Applications
Stephen J. Jordan, Juraj Repcik, Ryan Hutchens, Noah L. Ryder, Fire & Risk Alliance, LLC., Rockville, Maryland

Time Series Feature Extraction and Selection for Fire Data
Wai Cheong Tam, Jun Wang, Fire Research Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; Youwei Jia, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Guangdong, China; Eugene Yujun Fu, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung
Hom, Hong Kong; Jiajia Li, Department of Industrial Design, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangdong, China

Fire Detection and Fire Fighting Testing on Railway Vehicles – New Developments
Peter Stahl, Wagner Rail Schweiz GmbH, Wallisellen, Switzerland

I²C as a low-cost Field Bus in the Combustion Laboratory?
Gunnar Arndt, vacos GmbH, Nagold, Germany

Multi-criteria/Multi-sensor early Fire Detection in the Engine Compartment of Road Vehicles: Gas Sensors Performance at Elevated Ambient Temperature
Gunnar Arndt, Isabell Malisi, vacos GmbH, Nagold, Germany; Anna Staerz, Udo Weimar, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany

Multi-criteria / Multi-sensor early Fire Detection in the Engine Compartment of Road Vehicles: Gas sensors’ Performance in a Test Vehicle
Gunnar Arndt, Isabell Malisi, vacos GmbH, Nagold, Germany

Characterization of Nuisance Aerosols for scatteredlight Smoke Detection
Aleksandar Duric, Martin Sepiol, Christian A. Bruun, Armend Zendeli, Thomas Attinger, Christian Spagno, Ulrich Kuhn-Matysiak, Siemens Schweiz AG, Zug, Switzerland

Efficient Fire Detection Solutions for Ro-Ro Ships
Ola Willstrand, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, Sweden; Reidar Stølen, RISE Fire Research AS, Trondheim, Norway

Fire Detection Tests to develop a Fire Protection Concept for Stationary Lithium Ion Battery Energy Storage Systems
Stephanie Brandt, Siemens AG Smart Infrastructure, Munich, Germany; Gerd Hülsen, Markus Schreiner, Aleksandar Duric, Martin Zimmermann, Siemens Schweiz AG, Zug, Switzerland

It’s all about Statistics – Towards a Paradigm Shift for Performance Evaluation in the Fire Domain
Matthias Bauer, Thomas Hanses, Wolfgang Werkmeister, Christopher Haug, Bosch Sicherheitssysteme GmbH, Grasbrunn, Germany

Prevention and Detection of Fires at Conveyors Belts in Hazardous Areas by Fibre-Optic Linear Heat Detection
Stefan Breuer, Wieland Hill, Martin Fromme, Felix Heck, Bernd Horbach, NKT Photonics GmbH, Cologne, Germany; Herbert Schmitz, Advanced Automation Systems, Randburg, South Africa

Differentiation between Smouldering, Flaming and Nuisance Fires utilising CO2 and other Gas Detection
David Richardson, Daniel O’Shea, Michael Byrne, Ei Electronics, Shannon, Ireland; Romy McKenna, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Decision-making by a Combination of Feature-based and AI-based Algorithms for Early Wildfire Detection
Kurt, Winter, IQ wireless GmbH, Berlin, Germany

A simple Mie scattering calculation method based on approximate linear model
Mengxue Lin, Ming Zhu, Shu Wang, School of Electronic Information and Communicatins, Huazhong, University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Mass Distribution of Aerosol for Testing Smoke Detectors
Stephen Ellwood, AW Technology Ltd, Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Extinction Mechanism of a Diffusion Flame at Low or High Stretch Rate
Shangqing Tao, Jun Fang*, Lizhong Yang, University of Science and Technology of China, State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China

Safety Aspects for the Transport of Alternative Powered Vehicles on RORO Ferries
Dana Meissner, Institut für Sicherheitstechnik / Schiffssicherheit e.V., Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany

Deep Learning Solution for Early Wildland Fire Detection and Suppression
Azarm Nowzad, Kurt Winter, IQ wireless GmbH, Berlin, Germany; Azarm Nowzad, Ralf Reulke, Department of computer science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin,
Germany

On the Use of Machine Learning Models to Forecast Flashover Occurrence in a Compartment
Wai Cheong Tam, Jun Wang, Richard Peacock, Paul Reneke, Thomas Cleary, Fire Research Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; Eugene Yujun Fu, Grace Ngai, Hong-va Leong, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

Modeling Expected Performance of Smoke Alarms Meeting the Requirements of ANSI/UL 217-2015
Thomas Cleary, Paul Reneke and Richard Peacock, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Validation of Aerosol Dynamics in a Well-Stirred Isothermal Enclosure
Amy Mensch, Thomas Cleary, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Assessing Fire Smoke to Predict Backdraft and Smoke Explosion Potential
Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Thomas Cleary, National Institute of Standards, Gaithersburg

Analyzing the Robustness of Deep Learning Based Video Smoke Detection using Synthetic Smoke Videos
Philip Dietrich, Bosch Building Technologies, Grasbrunn, Germany

An Optical Fire Detector based on Polarized Fingerprint
Jin Zeng, Shu Wang, Tian Deng, Shu Yan, Ang Chen, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong, University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Fire Sensing Method based on Particle Size Distribution
Ang Chen, Tian Deng, Shu Wang, Shu Yan, Jin Zeng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Internet of Things and Alarm Systems: From the Perspective of Security
Santosh Sharman, Kiwa, Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Ready, Aim Fire: An Introduction to the Security of Fire Alarm Systems from the Perspective of a Penetration Tester
René Bisperink, Kiwa Fire Safety and Security Products, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

Validation Study for Smoke Detector Response in FDS
Thomas Cleary, Amy Mensch, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD; Gabriel Taylor, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC

Video Smoke Detection with Domain Knowledge and Transfer Learning Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Yang Jia, Haijuan Wang, Hanrong Du, Runyang Yu, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an, China; Gao Xu, Yongming Zhang, Qixing Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Temporal Deep Learning for Video Smoke Detection
Andreas, Wellhausen, Bosch GmbH, Hildesheim, Germany, University of Duisburg Essen, Duisburg, Germany

Video Smoke Detection Method Utilizing Variance in Smoke Flow
Yoshio Nakamura, Masahiko Nemoto, Hochiki Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Study The Fire Detection Method Using Support Vector Machine
Hiromchi Ebata, Katsuya Okayasu, Yusuke Noda, Hochiki Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Takuma Nishioka, Hiroharu Utsumi, Chyon Hae Kim, Iwate University, Iwate, Japan

Early Detection of Expressway Tunnel Fire and Risk Reduction Measures
Masahiro Yokota, Ken-ichiro Yamazaki,Takumi Ota, Taku Nakayama, Central Nippon Highway Engineering Tokyo Company Limited, Tokyo, Japan; Naoya Suzuki, Central Nippon Expressway Company limited, Nobuyoshi Kawabata, Komatsu University

Comparison of Aspirating Smoke Detector Codes and Standards
Pavla Pechová, Pavel Kuznetsov, Tomáš Kaločai, Czech Technical University in Prague; National Institute of Public Health, Czech Republic

A Study of Fire on Boeing 747 Overhead Cargo Compartment: Experiments and Fire Dynamics Simulator Validation
Marcos Vanella, Randall McDermott, Fire Research Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; Haiqing Guo, Richard Lyon,
Fire Safety Branch, William J. Hughes Technical Center, Federal Aviation, Administration, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ 

Dispersion of Fire Parameter within the Early Fire Stage: The influence of different Fire Types
Chiara Herbster, Marion Meinert, Sebastian Festag, Hekatron Vertriebs GmbH, Sulzburg, Germany

Digitalization in fire protection
Sebastian Brose, Bettina Bormann,VdS Schadenverhütung, Cologne, Germany

IR-Camera Devices for Fire Protection in Challenging Environments – Field Experiences and Test Methods
Bettina Bormann, Rafael Bernsdorf, VdS Schadenverhütung, Cologne, Germany

ITM Data Collection and Application
Alfred (Fred) Leber, AML Encore Corp., Toronto, Canada

Optimisation of the Technical Building Evacuation through Adaptive Systems
Lance Rütimann, Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Zug, Switzerland; Sebastian Festag, Hekatron, Sulzburg, Germany

Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance (ITM) Data Exchange Model
Victoria Hutchison, Fire Protection Research Foundation, Quincy MA; Bart van Leeuwen, Netage B.V., Linschoten, The Netherlands

Flame and Ember Localization Using Color and IR Cameras
Fabian Stoller, Alexander Fay, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany; Felix Kümmerlen, Bundeswehr Research Institute for Protective Technologies and NBC
Protection (WIS), Munster, Germany

Reducing the Influence of Variable Polarization Direction of the Light Source in the Optical Scattering Smoke Detector
Shu Yan, Shu Wang, Ang Chen, Tian Deng, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

Low Latency real-time Deflagration Detection using a Field Programmable Gate Array
Marcel Eckert, Jakob Krooß, Bernd Klauer, Alexander Fay, Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Felix Kümmerlen, Bundeswehr Research Institute for Protective Technologies and NBC Protection (WIS) Munster, Germany

ESID: Early Smoke Image Detection Algorithm Based on modified YOLO V4
Yinuo Huo, Yongming Zhang, Peiwen Dai, Qixing Zhang*, State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Suppression

Lithium Battery Thermal Runaway Vent Gas Analysis at Various Heating rates
Matthew Karp, Federal Aviation Administration, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Experimental Investigations of the Performance of Water Mist System for the Protection of Mass Timber Buildings Focused on Post-fire Damage
Yoon Ko, Eric Gibbs, Nour Elsagan, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Jason Juczek, Southwest Research Institute, St. Antonio, Texas

Coupled Automatic and Manual Fire Protection for Top-Loading Automatic Storage and Retrieval Systems
Benjamin Ditch, FM Global, Norwood, MA

Evaluation of Dry Chemical Fire Extinguishing Standards
Jason Huczek, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, TX

A Theoretical and Experimental Study of Extinguishing Compressed Air Foam upon n-heptane Storage Tank Fire with Variable Fuel Thickness
Kun Wang, Jun Fang, Hassan Raza Shah, Jingwu Wang, Yongming Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China

An Evaluation of the Firefighting Effectiveness of Fluorine-Free Foams
Gerard (Jerry) Back, Jensen Hughes, Baltimore, MD

The Renaissance of NFPA 13
Garner A. Palenske, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., San Diego, CA

The SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering: Looking Forward for the Next Generation of Fire Protection Engineers
Chris Jelenewicz, PE, FSFPE SFPE, Gaithersburg, MD

Screening Tests for Fluorine-Free Firefighting Foams
Joshua Dinaburg, Gerard Back, Matthew DiDomizio, Lindsay Huffert, Michelle Addai, Jonathan Hodges, Jensen Hughes, Baltimore; Brian Lattimer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg; John Farley, Stanley Karwoski, United States Naval Research Laboratory, Chesapeake Beach

Impact of Sprinkler K-Factor and Operating Pressure on Sprinkler Spray Discharge Characteristics and Spray Patterns
Stephen J. Jordan, Justin A. Geiman, Noah L. Ryder, Fire & Risk Alliance, LLC., Rockville, Maryland

From Fire Test Lab to NFPA 13 - An Overview of the ESFR Obstruction Testing Program and Resulting Application to NFPA 13
Garner A. Palenske, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., San Diego, CA

Review of Oxygen Reduction Systems for Warehouse Storage Applications
Patrick van Hees, John Barton, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Martin Nilsson, Zurich Insurance plc, Stockholm, Sweden; Brian Meacham, Meacham Associates, Shrewsbury, MA

Fuel Pick-up and Flammability of Fire-fighting Foams
David Meyer, Charles Darwin University, College of Engineering, IT and Environment, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia and Orion Fire Engineering Pty Ltd, NSW, Australia; Luis Herrera Diaz, Charles Darwin University, College of Engineering, IT and Environment and Energy and Resources Institute, Darwin, Northern Territory,
Australia; Bogdan Z Dlugogorski, Charles Darwin University, Energy and Resources Institute, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia

Protection against Modern Hazards and Threats to our Safety Systems
Victoria Hutchison, Fire Protection Research Foundation, Quincy, MA