The OECD FIRE database
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A. Angner
Abstract
Realistic modelling of fire scenarios is still difficult due to the scarcity of reliable data needed for deterministic and probabilistic fire safety analysis. Therefore, it has been recognized as highly important to establish a fire event database on an international level. In consequence, several member countries of the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD have decided in 2000 to establish the International Fire Data Exchange Project (OECD FIRE) to encourage multilateral co-operation in the collection and analysis of data related to fire events at nuclear power plants. This paper presents the OECD FIRE project objectives, work scope and current status of the OECD FIRE database after 3 years of operation as well as first preliminary statistical insights gained from the collected data.
Kurzfassung
Die realistische Modellierung von Brandszenarien ist immer noch eine schwierige Aufgabe, da zuverlässige Daten zu Bränden, die für deterministische und probabilistische Brandschutzanalysen benötigt werden, in vorhandenen Ereignisdatenbanken fehlen. Deshalb wurde es als dringend notwendig erachtet, eine internationale Brandereignisdatenbank aufzubauen. Diese Idee wurde von verschiedenen Mitgliedern der Nuclear Energy Agency der OECD im Jahr 2000 aufgegriffen und als Konsequenz die internationale Datenbank OECD FIRE eingerichtet, um die Sammlung und Analyse von brandschutzrelevanten Daten zu fördern. Dabei werden zunächst nur Daten von Kernkraftwerken gesammelt. Nachfolgend werden Ziele und Umfang des Projekts OECD FIRE beschrieben, der aktuelle Stand der Datenbasis nach der ersten dreijährigen Phase vorgestellt und erste vorläufige statistische Auswertungen der bisher vorhandenen Daten erläutert.
References
1Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) OECD/NEA/CSNI. 2000. Fire Risk Analysis, Fire Simulation, Fire Spreading And Impact of Smoke And Heat on Instrumentation ElectronicsSearch in Google Scholar
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