FIVE 2023

Please note that the programme is preliminary!

* Speaker

11.00   Opening cermony

11.20   Keynote session

Fredrik Rosén, Dafo Vehicle Fire Protection, Sweden

Kjetil Solberg, The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB), Norway

12.20   LUNCH

13.40   Fire development

Experimental investigation of the HRR of modern ICE vehicles
Jean-Baptiste Tramoni¹*, Christophe Fraud², Mathieu Suzanne³, Gildas Auguin⁴, Christophe Thauvoye¹ and Bin Zhao¹, ¹CTICM, ²GagnePark, ³LCPP, ⁴Efectis, France

Fire, Due to Improper Maintenance
Robert Bruce McKay*, McKay Forensic Investigations, Australia

An Analysis of Cabin Exhauster Vents and Body Structure Pass-Throughs in Post-Collision Vehicle Fires
Christopher Clarke*, Brian Herbst, Lauren Bell, Christopher Newton, Jack Bish, SAFE, USA

14.40   Break

15.10   Bus fires

Fire safety of Zero Emission Buses depots: fire prevention and incident response
Nils Rosmuller* and Johan Reinders, NIPV, The Netherlands 

Development of toxicity assessment method for bus interior materials
A. Klippel¹*, A. Hofmann², K. Piechnik¹, T. Gnutzmann², ¹Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, ²Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Germany

Vehicle Fire Model and Evacuation in a Passenger Bus
Saumitra Mishra, Pushpendra Kumar Vishwakarma*, Boyeni Mahesh Yadav, Guru Manoj, Kirti Bhushan Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

16.10   Break

16.30   Alternative fuels 1 

(Fire) statistics on incidents with alternative fuel vehicles in The Netherlands
Tom Hessels*, NIPV, The Netherlands

Fire suppression and manual firefighting of battery electric vehicle fires on ro-ro ships
Magnus Arvidson¹, Jonatan Gehandler¹* and Jaime Bleye², ¹RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, ²Centro de Seguridad Marítima Integral Jovellanos, Spain

Large-scale tests of firefighting technologies for extinguishing electrical vehicles on board of ro-ro ferries
Thushadh Wijesekere*, Elena Funk, Konrad Wilkens, Bjarne Husted, Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology, Denmark

17.30   Cocktail reception

Please note that the programme is preliminary!

*Speaker

8.30   Keynote session

Dr. Christoph Meraner, RISE Fire Research, Norway

9.00   Posters corner

9.30   Break

9.50   Alternative fuels 2

Fire Suppression Studies on Large Lithium-ion Batteries
Judith Jeevarajan, Taina Rauhala, Mohammad Parhizi*, UL Research Institutes, USA

Study on Water Injection Methodology Applied to Lithium-Ion Battery Fires
David Sturk^1,2, Per Ola Malmquist¹*, Lena Håkansson³, ¹Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), ²AB Sturk Consulting, ³Cold Cut Systems, Sweden

Li-ion battery full scale thermal runaway test: environmental and personnel exposure influence in case of rescue operations
Marco Aimo-Boot¹*, Marco Pazzi -Valter Maurino², Fabrizio Malaspina³, ¹Iveco Group, ²University of Turin, ³Italian National Fire Corp, Italy

10.50   Break

11.20   Alternative fuels 3

Analysis of combustion gases and fire water run-offs from passenger vehicle fires
Jonna Hynynen*, Maria Quant, Ola Willstrand, Tove Mallin, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden

Fire Performance of a Cryogenic UN-T75 Storage Tank: Phase II – LNG
Jason Huczek¹*, Kyle Fernandez¹, Marc Janssens¹, Bill Bendele¹, Keith Friedman², Garrett Mattos², ¹Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), ²Friedman Research Corporation (FRC), USA

Fire propagation and temperature distribution in the vicinity of CNG fuel tanks during a bus fire
Václav Vystrčil^1,2*, Lucie Hasalová¹, Jan Karl¹, Milan Jahoda^{2, 1}Technical Institute of Fire Protection in Prague, ²University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

12.20   LUNCH

13.30   Car park fires

Hazards of EVs in the built environment and firefighting tactics
Victoria Hutchison, FPRF, USA

Fire safety in semi-automatic parking systems
Ellen Synnøve Skilbred^*, Ole Anders Holmvaag, Vidar Stenstad, Janne Siren Fjærestad, Tian Li, RISE Fire Research, Norway

Fire safety engineering case study of an electric vehicle car park fire
Bertrand Girardin, Virginie Drean*, Mohamad El Houssami, Efectis, France

14.30   Concluding remarks

15.00   Technical visit

Subsea road tunnel safari - joint technical visit together with ISTSS