Simulation Emergency Fire Evacuation Model for Nuclear Power Plant

Simulation of egress is vital for minimizing losses during fire disasters, however accurate simulations are scarce and real-life data is hard to come by. In this paper, a Proposed Wireless Fire Evacuation Model (PWFEM) is proposed to simulate fire evacuation process in a short time to minimize evacuee’s exposure to the harmful radiation and fire hazards. The PWFEM simulation realistic by supposing fire scenario at cabined contains electrical cables inside a standard Main Control Room (MCR) in a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) building. In addition, a new Hybrid Safest Shortest Exit (HSSE) is developed which consists of three stages: safest route based on rules-based technique, evacuees location based on the DV-hop technique [1] and shortest route that depends on Dijkstra technique. The PWFEM Simulations are appreciated to yield a realistic fire scenario by using a telecommunications TCP/IP network in form of server and client sides that help in transfer data inside internal networks in the NPP building. On the server-side, suppose that Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (CFAST) fire modeling is applied to simulate the fire scenario in MCR through CFAST model to generate fire products as output data in excel sheets and sends them to the client-side. The client-side then runs HSSE to produce the tree map for safest and shortest routes to help the evacuee for safe exit from his/her location. HSSE can be implemented on evacuee’s watches. From the results, it is concluded that PWFEM can simulate the fire scenario inside MCR, furthermore it is validated that HSEE can be used as an efficient emergency fire evacuation technique that can produce safest and shortest exit route for evacuee in any location inside NPP in very small time. In addition, PWFEM can be used for simulating fire evacuation inside any high-risk buildings and can appreciate yielding any realistic fire scenario with many types of fire sources in different places inside buildings.

RFES: a real-time fire evacuation system for Mobile Web3D

There are many bottlenecks that limit the computing power of the Mobile Web3 D and they need to be solved before implementing a public fire evacuation system on this platform.In this study,we focus on three key problems:(1)The scene data for large-scale building information modeling(BIM)are huge,so it is difficult to transmit the data via the Internet and visualize them on the Web;(2)The raw fire dynamic simulator(FDS)smoke diffusion data are also very large,so it is extremely difficult to transmit the data via the Internet and visualize them on the Web;(3)A smart artificial intelligence fire evacuation app for the public should be accurate and real-time.To address these problems,the following solutions are proposed:(1)The large-scale scene model is made lightweight;(2)The amount of dynamic smoke is also made lightweight;(3)The dynamic obstacle maps established from the scene model and smoke data are used for optimal path planning using a heuristic method.We propose a real-time fire evacuation system based on the ant colony optimization(RFES-ACO)algorithm with reused dynamic pheromones.Simulation results show that the public could use Mobile Web3 D devices to experience fire evacuation drills in real time smoothly.The real-time fire evacuation system(RFES)is efficient and the evacuation rate is better than those of the other two algorithms,i.e.,the leader-follower fire evacuation algorithm and the random fire evacuation algorithm.

Evacuation strategies for vertical ship lift during initial fire: Integrated application of stairs and elevators

Vertical ship lifts(VSLs)are widely used in navigation facilities worldwide because of their efficiency and low cost.Although several researchers have investigated fire evacuation strategies for reducing potential safety hazards in VSLs,an effective and integrated application of stairs and elevators when a fire occurs in a VSL is necessary.Several evacuation routes were analyzed according to VSL structure and evacuation times in this study.Objective function corresponding to the minimum vertical evacuation time and related simulation model was subsequently developed to obtain a cooperative evacuation plan considering different numbers of evacuees.The Three Gorges ship lift was used as an example,and simulation results indicate that number of evacuees and exit selection are the main influencing factors of the total evacuation time in the stair-and elevator-coordinated evacuation mode.Furthermore,the distance between people trapped in ship reception chamber and evacuation exits affects evacuees?choice of exits.The proposed model can provide a theoretical reference for evacuation research during initial fire events in VSLs.