TY - JOUR A1 - Hahn, A. A1 - Zellmer, S. A1 - Riesselmann, B. A1 - Krüger, Simone A1 - Raspe, Tina A1 - Schwarz, Silke A1 - Stahn, Sebastian A1 - Urban, Klaus T1 - Carbon monoxide release curves from measurements during indoor charcoal burning: systematic research on toxic levels for humans JF - Clinical toxicology N2 - The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) DocCenter has received more and more reports of cases of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, some even with fatal outcomes after indoor use of charcoal grills. CO is odorless, colorless, non-irritant and does not produce any other warning effect perceptible to humans. The BfR and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) have completed a cooperative research project to investigate the toxic concentrations of CO that are reached when charcoal grills or open fires are used indoors. KW - Toxicity KW - Indoor charcoal burning PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.3109/15563650.2014.906213 SN - 1556-3650 VL - 52 IS - 4 SP - 351 PB - Informa Healthcare CY - Philadelphia, Pa. AN - OPUS4-34582 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krüger, Simone A1 - Raspe, Tina A1 - Deubel, Jan T1 - Detailed analysis of a smouldering fire scenario at the murder scene - experimental and numerical investigations JF - Fire and materials N2 - Based on forensic evidence, a smouldering fire was observed to have occurred at a murder scene. Identification of a reasonable timeline – specifically the fire dynamics of the ignition and fire growth that occurred coincident with the death that took place – became an important focus of the criminal investigation that followed. The fire service was called when a neighbour saw a grey smoke escaping through the ventilation system of the bathrooms on the roof of the house. One flat door with elevated temperatures was found. The fire fighter who entered the flat first reported later that the flat was completely filled with smoke and all windows were closed. When the fire fighter opened the balcony door, he saw flames on the sofa that he extinguished. Then he found a body on the floor. The autopsy showed later that the victim was dead before the fire started. The police suspected that the murderer probably had deliberately set the fire to destroy evidence. One suspect had been witnessed to be in the flat approximately 2 h before the fire was detected by the neighbour. The aim of this project was to investigate how the fire most likely started and developed. KW - Fire investigation KW - Smouldering fire KW - Fire development KW - Crime KW - Numerical modelling PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.2222 SN - 0308-0501 SN - 1099-1018 VL - 38 IS - 8 SP - 806 EP - 816 PB - Heyden CY - London AN - OPUS4-32016 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nörthemann, K. A1 - Moritz, W. A1 - Bienge, J.-E. A1 - Müller, J. A1 - Despinasse, Marie-Claire A1 - Raspe, Tina A1 - Krüger, Simone ED - Krüll, W. T1 - Forest fire detection using hydrogen sensors T2 - AUBE '14 - 15th International conference on automatic fire detection (Proceedings) N2 - Forest fires start mostly in partial combustion. In this paper we present a hydrogen sensor to defect early stages of forest fires. First indoor experiments in a smoke density chamber with wood samples, proved that the sensor produce a strong signal change when the smouldering of wood starts, already before the CO concentration, measured in FTIR spectrometry, exceeds 10 ppm. In outdoor experiments we were able to detect forest fire in a distance of 110 m. T2 - AUBE '14 - 15th International conference on automatic fire detection CY - Duisburg, Germany DA - 14.10.2014 KW - Hydrogen sensor KW - Forest KW - Fire detection KW - Smoke gases KW - FTIR KW - Rauchkammer PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-940402-02-8 VL - 1 SP - 247 EP - 254 CY - Duisburg AN - OPUS4-31949 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -