TY - CHAP A1 - Jordan, T. A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Holtappels, Kai A1 - Jopen, M. A1 - Stoll, U. A1 - Reinecke, E.-A. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Beyer, M. A1 - Markus, D. T1 - Fuels – Introduction | Hydrogen safety N2 - The introduction of hydrogen as a safe energy carrier needs a robust knowledge base, tools for the design and safety assessment of hydrogen technologies built on it, and an internationally harmonized set of standards and regulations. Many of the innovative technologies imply hydrogen at high pressures and/or cryogenic temperatures, with which private users come into contact for the first time in distributed applications. In order to avoid over-conservative, expensive safety solutions, while at the same time demonstrating the usability and safety of hydrogen applications and maintaining acceptance for the technology, safety research must also keep pace with, or better yet anticipate, trends in technological development. Thus, this overview article describes not only the current state of knowledge and technology regarding hydrogen safety, but also its further development. KW - Explosion protection KW - Accidental scenarios KW - Hazard and risk assessment KW - Regulations codes and standards (RCS) KW - Ignition KW - Hydrogen storage KW - Energy carrier PY - 2024 SN - 978-0-1240-9547-2 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96022-9.00195-X VL - 2nd Edition SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-59940 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jordan, T. A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Holtappels, Kai A1 - Deeg, S. A1 - Jopen, M. A1 - Stoll, U. A1 - Reinecke, E.-A. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Beyer, M. A1 - Markus, D. T1 - Stand der Kenntnisse und Technik bezüglich Wasserstoffsicherheit N2 - Die Einführung von Wasserstoff als sicherer Energieträger braucht eine robuste Wissensbasis, darauf aufgebaute Werkzeuge zur Auslegung und Sicherheitsbewertung von Wasserstofftechnologien und ein international harmonisiertes Regelwerk. Viele der innovativen Technologien implizieren Wasserstoff bei hohen Drücken und/oder kryogenen Temperaturen, mit denen in verteilten Anwendungen erstmalig private Nutzer in Kontakt kommen. Um überkonservative, teure Sicherheitslösungen zu vermeiden, gleichzeitig aber die Einsetzbarkeit und Sicherheit von Wasserstoffanwendungen zu demonstrieren und die Akzeptanz für die Technologie aufrecht zu halten, muss auch die Sicherheitsforschung mit den Trends der technologischen Entwicklung Schritt halten, oder sie besser noch antizipieren. So beschreibt dieser Überblicksartikel nicht nur den gegenwärtigen Stand der Kenntnisse und Technik bezüglich Wasserstoffsicherheit, sondern auch ihre Weiterentwicklung. KW - Alternative Energieträger KW - Explosionsschutz KW - Flüssigwasserstoff KW - Unfallszenarien KW - Wasserstoffspeicherung KW - Sicherheitsbewertung KW - Regelsetzung KW - Gefährdungs- und Risikobeurteilung PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-593629 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.202300141 SN - 0009-286X VL - 96 IS - 1-2 SP - 1 EP - 20 PB - Wiley-VCH AN - OPUS4-59362 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Moritz, W. A1 - Krause, S. A1 - Roth, U. A1 - Klimm, D. A1 - Lippitz, Andreas T1 - Re-activation of an all solid state oxygen sensor N2 - The silicon based semiconductor structure Si/SiO2/Si3N4/LaF3/Pt can be used as a potentiometric oxygen sensor working at room temperature. A thermal re-activation can be applied to overcome the earlier disadvantage of an increase in response time with continuous use. Using the Pt gate electrode as a resistive heater, very short electrical high-power pulses can be applied. A heating time as short as 300 ns was sufficient for the re-activation of the sensor. This way, only the sensitive thin layer system LaF3/Pt was heated, and the whole sensor was at room temperature immediately after heating. Impedance spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and quadruple mass spectrometric (QMS)–thermogravimetry (TG) were used to investigate the mechanism of deterioration in dynamic sensor behaviour and re-activation. The formation of hydrated carbonate and the desorption of CO2 and H2O have been shown to be the causes. KW - Chemical sensor KW - Thermal treatment KW - Activation KW - LaF3 KW - Pt PY - 2001 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-2670(01)00993-X SN - 0003-2670 SN - 1873-4324 SN - 0378-4304 VL - 437 SP - 183 EP - 190 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-6836 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Gothe, C. A1 - Scheid, Marc A1 - Krause, U. ED - Makhviladze, G. ED - Molkov, V. ED - Bradley, D. ED - Sunderland, P. ED - Tamanini, F. T1 - Determination of explosion behaviour of nano powders with modified 20-L-sphere test N2 - This paper describes a modified experimental setup for the test apparatus 20-L-Sphere (also known as 20-L Siwek Chamber), that enables the test samples to be kept under inert atmospheric conditions nearly until ignition. This setup was designed to allow the determination of safety characteristics of nano powders under most critical circumstances (e.g. minimisation of the influence of oxidation before the test itself). The aim of this modification was to determine, whether or not the current setup and procedures underestimate the explosion violence and ignitability of nano powders. For this purpose, two different methods, the so called inerting method and the modified method (using a special nozzle called mushroom nozzle) are used. Both methods are described in the paper. The work includes experimental results of micrometer dusts to validate the modified method. Moreover first results of nanometer iron and aluminium dusts are presented, which were kept at inert conditions until shortly before the ignition. The tested nano iron was found to react pyrophoric, as soon as it gets in contact with air, while the tested nano aluminium did not generally show such behaviour. Tests with nano aluminium using the inerting method revealed a higher pressure rise in comparison to the standard test procedure. This could suggest a different extent of passivation. To investigate this effect more closely, further testes with more nano powders are required. T2 - ISFEH7 - 7th International seminar on fire & explosion hazards CY - Providence, RI, USA DA - 05.05.2013 KW - Nano material KW - Dust explosion KW - Safety characteristics KW - Nanopowder PY - 2013 SN - 978-981-07-5936-0 SN - 978-981-07-5940-7 DO - https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-07-5936-0_13-03 SP - 801 EP - 809 PB - Research publishing AN - OPUS4-28560 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Romahn, T.-M. A1 - Scheid, Marc A1 - Krause, U. ED - Pierucci, S. ED - Klemes, J.J. ED - De Rademaeker, E. ED - Fabiano, B. ED - Buratti, S.S. T1 - Modified setup of 20-L-sphere for the determination of safety characteristics of nano powders N2 - This paper describes a modified experimental setup for the test apparatus 20-L-Sphere (also known as 20-L Siwek Chamber), that enables the test samples to be kept under inert atmospheric conditions nearly until ignition. This setup was designed to allow the determination of safety characteristics of nanopowders under most critical circumstances (e.g. minimisation of the influence of oxidation before the test itself). The aim of this modification was to determine, whether or not the current setup and procedures underestimate the explosion violence and ignitability of nanopowders. The work includes experimental results of micrometer dusts to validate the modified setup. Moreover first results of nanometer iron and Aluminium dusts are presented, which were kept at inert conditions until shortly before the ignition. The tested nano iron was found to react pyrophoric, as soon as it gets in contact with air, while the tested nano Aluminium did not generally show such behaviour. T2 - 14th International symposium on loss prevention and safety promotion in the process industries CY - Florence, Italy DA - 12.05.2013 KW - Dust explosion KW - Nanopowder PY - 2013 SN - 978-88-95608-22-8 DO - https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1331135 SN - 1974-9791 N1 - Serientitel: Chemical engineering transactions – Series title: Chemical engineering transactions IS - 31 SP - 805 EP - 810 PB - AIDIC, Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Chimica CY - Milano AN - OPUS4-28561 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Klippel, Alexander A1 - Scheid, Marc A1 - Krause, U. ED - Makhviladze, G. ED - Molkov, V. ED - Bradley, D. ED - Sunderland, P. ED - Tamanini, F. T1 - Progress on the research into the influence of dustiness on dust explosions N2 - In practice, occurring explosive dust/air mixtures are usually not homogeneous and in many cases do not spread over the whole enclosure. For the safety measure explosion venting, a smaller venting area might be sufficient as calculated according to venting standards (EN 14491 'Dust Explosion Venting Protective Systems'). The tendency of bulk materials to form dust clouds is not taken into account so far. To optimize the design of explosion protection measures, a new safety characteristic the so-called 'dustiness' (see VDI 2263 part 9 'Determination of Dustiness of Bulk Materials'.) could be useful. Dustiness means the tendency of dust to form dust clouds. There are six dustiness groups (DG) from one to six (one means little tendency to stay airborne, six the opposite). The paper describes first results on the reasons for different dustiness and on dust explosion venting for several dusts of different dustiness. A 75 L vertical tube apparatus for vented dust explosion experiments was created. Pressure, pressure rises and flame speeds were measured to evaluate the course of the dust explosions. In addition the paper includes CFD simulations (ANSYS CFX) about the possibilities to model the dust/air mixtures with the Euler/Lagrange approach. In order to simulate the settling of dust clouds more realistic the particle surface area was adjusted and the particle size distribution was taken into account. Results were compared to experimentally determined terminal velocities. T2 - ISFEH7 - 7th International seminar on fire & explosion hazards CY - Providence, RI, USA DA - 05.05.2013 KW - CFD KW - Dust explosions KW - Dustiness KW - Venting PY - 2013 SN - 978-981-07-5936-0 SN - 978-981-07-5940-7 DO - https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-07-5936-0_13-01 SP - 781 EP - 790 PB - Research Publishing AN - OPUS4-28502 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Wanke, Ch. T1 - Determination of measurement uncertainties in adiabatic hot storage experiments for flammable dusts T2 - 9th International Seminar on Hazars, Pevention and Mitigation of Industrial CY - Kraków, Poland DA - 2012-07-22 PY - 2012 AN - OPUS4-26367 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Löhnert, Andrea A1 - Rabe, Frederik A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Numerical and experimental investigation of fire smoke toxicity T2 - International congress ' Fire computer modeling' CY - Cantabria, Spain DA - 2012-10-18 PY - 2012 SN - 978-84-86116-69-9 SP - 171 EP - 188 AN - OPUS4-27893 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Deubel, Jan A1 - Werrel, Martin A1 - Krüger, Simone A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Experimentelle Untersuchungen zum Einfluss von Brandbeschleuniger auf den Verlauf von Raumbränden T2 - 3. Magdeburger Brand- und Explosionsschutztag / vfdb-Workshop CY - Magdeburg, Germany DA - 2013-03-21 KW - Brandbeschleuniger KW - Raumbrand PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-00-041601-9 SP - 1 EP - 9(?) AN - OPUS4-27989 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sipilä, J. A1 - Auerkari, Pertti A1 - Malmén, Y. A1 - Heikkilä, A.-M. A1 - Vela-Wallenschus, Iris A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Experience and the unexpected:risk and mitigation issues for operating underground storage silos for coal-fired power plant N2 - Observed autoignition events and extinguishing the resulting smouldering fires in an underground storage system of a coal-fired power plant have provided insight into the array of contributing variables, and some experience on quantifying the risk with alternative scenarios of event initiation, progress and potential mitigation. Although the first attempts to quantify the risk suggest high sensitivity to the sequence of action taken after fire alarm, and no similar storage sites really exist, some recommended preventive, corrective and other mitigating activities can be at least partly defined and improved by using the cumulative experience and parallel efforts in other closed or underground storage sites. However, there are also so-called black (or at least grey) swans: unexpected events for which the facility may be poorly prepared for. In the case of the underground storage silos, such an event was experienced when incoming cold coal during a harsh winter season froze the sewer system that normally protects the stored coal from seepage water. With blocked normal bypass, the seepage water found its way to the coal silos and created large clumps of icy coal that blocked the coal conveyors. Although freezing weather is not unusual at high-latitude power plants, the common methods to combat freezing of coal are mainly useful for open storage sites and above-ground transport. Options for mitigation are discussed, as well as the event chain leading to an event that had never previously occurred. The case is discussed from the point of view of options to prepare for rare or unforeseen events. KW - Coal KW - Underground storage KW - Fire KW - Freezing KW - Risk KW - Mitigation PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2012.729530 SN - 1366-9877 SN - 1466-4461 N1 - Geburtsname von Vela-Wallenschus, Iris: Vela, I. - Birth name of Vela-Wallenschus, Iris: Vela, I. SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London [u.a.] AN - OPUS4-28260 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Schoßig, Jörg A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Validierung von formalkinetischen Größen aus der adiabatischen Warmlagerung KW - Selbstentzündung KW - Adiabate Warmlagerung KW - Reaktionskinetik PY - 2011 SP - 1 EP - 57 ET - Abschlussbericht Forschungsvorhaben AN - OPUS4-25012 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Rabe, Frederik A1 - Knaust, Christian ED - Schmidt, J. T1 - Modeling fire scenarios and smoke migration in structures KW - Modeling fire scenarios KW - Field models KW - Fire dynamics simulator (FDS) KW - ANSYS CFX PY - 2012 SN - 978-3-527-33027-0 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527645725.ch10 IS - Chapter 10 SP - 159 EP - 177 PB - Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA AN - OPUS4-27738 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Beutel, R. A1 - Reinhardt, H.-W. A1 - Grosse, C. U. A1 - Glaubitt, A. A1 - Krause, Martin A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Algernon, Daniel A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert A1 - Schickert, M. T1 - Performance Demonstration of Non-Destructive Testing Methods T2 - 9th European Conference on NDT CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2006-09-25 KW - NDT-CE KW - Concrete KW - Ultrasonic echo KW - Impact-echo KW - Radar KW - Concrete cover of tendon ducts KW - Thickness measurement KW - Concrete slabs PY - 2006 SN - 3-931381-86-2 SP - 1(?) EP - 9(?) PB - European Federation for Non-Destructive Testing CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-14382 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hensel, Willi A1 - Krause, Ulrich A1 - Löffler, U. ED - Steen, H. T1 - Selbstentzündung fester Stoffe (einschließlich Stäube) PY - 2000 SN - 3-527-29848-7 SP - 257 EP - 289 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-6892 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hensel, Willi A1 - Krause, Ulrich A1 - Löffler, U. ED - Hattwig, M. T1 - Self-ignition of solid materials (including dusts) PY - 2004 SN - 3-527-30718-4 SP - 227 EP - 255 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-6895 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klippel, Alexander A1 - Scheid, Marc A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Investigations into the influence of dustiness on dust explosions N2 - A new safety characteristic the 'dustiness' according to VDI 2263 – part 9 (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, 2008) is investigated. Dustiness means the tendency of a dust to form clouds. The paper deals with the influence of the dustiness on vented dust explosions. In order to look into the effects of the dustiness on dust cloud formation and explosion properties experiments and simulations in a vertical dust dispersion glass tube apparatus were carried out. Preliminary explosion experiments showed that the dustiness has an influence on the reduced explosion pressure in a vented 75 L test apparatus. Dusts with comparable pmax and KSt values and different dustiness were tested. Dusts with higher dustiness produced higher overpressures, despite comparable safety characteristics. In order to verify the results for applications in the process industries further tests with different settings are planned as well as industrial scale experiments. Characteristics of the dust such as particle size, density, specific surface area and particle shape, which influence the dispersibility, have been determined experimentally. The Euler/Lagrange and the Euler/Euler approaches are compared for simulating an exemplary dust/air mixture. Especially sedimentation and the ability of the approaches to simulate the tendency of dust to stay airborne were investigated. The Euler/Lagrange approach is better suited for simulating local dust concentrations, particle size distributions and particle forces. It could be used to point out regions of high dust concentrations in a vessel. With the Euler/Euler method it is possible to achieve fast solutions for one specified diameter, but the simulated dust/air mixtures are always more homogenous than in reality. ANSYS CFX version 13 was used in all simulations. KW - Dust explosion KW - Dustiness KW - Dispersion KW - Venting KW - Computational fluid dynamiics (cfd) KW - Two-phase flow PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2013.07.016 SN - 0950-4230 SN - 1873-3352 VL - 26 SP - 1616 EP - 1626 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Guildford, Surrey AN - OPUS4-29000 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Wanke, C. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Determination of measurement uncertainties in adiabatic hot-storage experiments for reactive dusts N2 - The formal kinetics of self-ignition of solid bulk materials theoretically can be derived from just one single adiabatic hot-storage test. The question arises how uncertainties in the measurements can be quantified and how these uncertainties affect the results of the subsequent predictions. Adiabatic and isoperibolic hot-storage basket tests were performed for samples of lignite coal, black coal, cork dust, a polymer dust, and wax-coated silicid acid. In the adiabatic experiments, the starting temperature and the temperature control of the oven were varied systematically to study the uncertainty margin of adiabatic tests. The apparent activation energy and the pre-exponential factor of the lumped reaction were derived from the adiabatic tests including average values and standard deviations and compared to isoperibolic experiments performed according to the European standard EN 15188. It could be shown that with a precise temperature control of the adiabatic oven combined with an automated computation of the maximum rate of temperature rise the uncertainty of the apparent activation energy can be limited to less than 10%. KW - Adiabatic test KW - Bulk materials KW - Hot-storage test KW - Reactive dust KW - Self-ignition PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/ceat.201300068 SN - 0930-7516 SN - 1521-4125 VL - 36 IS - 10 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Wiley-VCH Verl. CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-29036 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Löhnert, Andrea A1 - Monreal, Nils A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, U. ED - Zingoni, A. T1 - Numerical and experimental investigation of the toxicity and light extinction of fire smoke using experimental data from fire tests of polymers N2 - The Fractional Effective Dose model was used to predict the fire smoke toxicity numerically. In this context fire tests were carried out for three different building materials: polyurethane, flame retardant polyurethane and polyvinyl chloride. The fire tests were performed for flaming and smoldering combustion. The aim of the fire tests was to determine the light extinction, the smoke density and the combustion products at varying oxygen concentrations, different temperatures and different irradiance levels. The fire tests were performed in the German DIN-tube and also in the Cone Calorimeter. Stoichiometric coefficients at varying oxygen concentrations and temperatures were determined from measurements. With these stoichiometric coefficients reaction equations were defined and implemented in the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program, ANSYS CFX. The implemented reaction equations were used to account for different ventilation and temperature conditions in the simulation. The fire and smoke propagation was calculated numerically with CFD in the room corner test geometry. Equations to account for toxicity and light extinction were also implemented and were used to analyse the toxicity and the optical properties of fire smoke with CFD. T2 - Research and applications in structural engineering, mechanics and computation - 5th International conference on structural engineering, mechanics and computation CY - Cape Town, South Africa DA - 02.09.2013 PY - 2013 SN - 978-1-138-00061-2 SN - 978-1-315-85078-8 SP - 2003 EP - 2008 PB - CRC Press AN - OPUS4-29279 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Scheid, Marc A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Wie brand- und explosionsgefährlich sind Nanostäube? N2 - Die Nanotechnologie gilt als die Wachstumsbranche der nächsten Jahrzehnte. Nicht zuletzt ist diese Entwicklung der veränderten Eigenschaften der Materialien im Nanometerbereich zuzuschreiben. Das andersgeartete Verhalten solcher Stoffe und die daraus ableitbare Unkenntnis über die Interaktion dieser Materialien mit ihrer Umgebung erfordert eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik zur Risikoabschätzung. Deshalb wurden und werden z.B. die gesundheitlichen Wirkungen von nanoskaligen Materialien auf den menschlichen Organismus bereits in zahlreichen Studien und Forschungsvorhaben untersucht. Fundierte Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse über Brand- und Explosionsgefahren bei der Herstellung und Handhabung von nanoskalig hergestellten brennbaren Materialien bzw. von Stoffen mit Partikelgrößen < µlpm liegen hingegen bisher kaum vor. Aufgrund von Erfahrungen mit Stäuben mit Partikelgrößen im Mikrometerbereich ist jedoch bekannt, dass Stoffe mit abnehmender Partikelgröße kritischer einzustufen sind, da beispielsweise ihre Explosionsheftigkeit und Zündempfmdlichkeit zunehmen. Die Explosionseigenschaften brennbarer Stäube werden durch sicherheitstechnische Kenngrößen beschrieben. Die Bestimmung sicherheitstechnischer Kenngrößen von Nanostäuben - welche die Grundlage für eine Gefährdungsbeurteilung und das Auslegen von Schutzmaßnahmen für Anlagen bilden - erfolgte bislang nur in geringem Umfang. Diese Untersuchungen wurden zudem großteils in Analogie zu den genormten Verfahren für Mikrostäube durchgeführt. Es wurde dabei jedoch nicht überprüft, ob die für Mikrostäube etablierten Prüfverfahren für eine sichere Bewertung des Brenn- und Explosionsverhaltens geeignet sind. Darüber hinaus kann es durch aus den Prüfapparaturen freigesetzten Staub zu einer Gesundheitsgefährdung der Mitarbeiter kommen. Da bisherige Untersuchungen zum Brand- und Explosionsverhalten von Nanostäuben den Oxidationsgrad der Proben nicht berücksichtigt haben, bestand die Vermutung, dass das Gefahrenpotential von Nanostäuben bislang unterschätzt werden könnte. Deshalb wurde ein modifizierter Prüfaufbau der Prüfapparatur 20-L Kugel entwickelt, um Nanostäube und deren Gefahrenpotential richtig einschätzen und der Kernfrage im Titel dieses Beitrages näher auf den Grund gehen zu können. Insbesondere metallische Nanostäube wurden bei den ersten Tests zur Bestimmung des Brand- und Explosionsverhaltens untersucht. Bei entsprechenden Stäuben ist zu erwarten, dass sich eine mögliche Oberflächenoxidation bzw. Passivierung besonders stark auf das Explosionsverhalten auswirken könnte. Darüber hinaus ist bekannt, dass metallische Stäube pyrophor reagieren oder sich aufgrund der hohen Scherkräfte bereites beim Eindüsen in die Versuchsapparatur entzünden können. Dies kommt gelegentlich bei Metallstäuben mit Medianwerten von wenigen Mikrometern vor. Da bei nanoskaligen Stäuben theoretisch wesentlich größere Oberflächen auftreten, ist davon auszugehen, dass sich dieses Verhalten bei solchen Stäuben verstärken könnte. Dies wurde von Wu et al. in für nanoskalige Eisen und Titanpartikel nachgewiesen. T2 - 11. Fachtagung Anlagen-, Arbeits- und Umweltsicherheit CY - Köthen, Germany DA - 07.11.2013 PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-86011-058-4 IS - P-17 SP - 1 EP - 10 AN - OPUS4-29533 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Klippel, Alexander A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Scheid, Marc A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Staubexplosionsschutz - Einfluss des Staubungsverhaltens auf druckentlastete Staubexplosionen T2 - 11. Fachtagung Anlagen-, Arbeits- und Umweltsicherheit CY - Köthen, Germany DA - 2013-11-07 PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-86011-058-4 IS - P-18 SP - 1 AN - OPUS4-29546 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lerena, P. A1 - Auerkari, Pertti A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Vela-Wallenschus, Iris A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Approaches towards a generic methodology for storage of hazardous energy carriers and waste products N2 - Energy carriers – either conventional or 'new' ones – have to be provided in large amounts to meet the requirements of permanent availability and reliable supply of electricity. Depending on their state of aggregation, energy carriers are either stored in large masses (if solid or liquid) or at elevated pressures (if gaseous). Both impose the hazard of large-scale fire, in the latter case additionally the danger of explosion or unintended release. Very similar hazards occur for wastes. Solid wastes are present in large masses and only a small part is recycled. Most of the solid wastes are used in energy conversion. The main gaseous waste is CO2. During capturing also the hazard of unintended release exists. In this article, existing approaches for safe storage and fire prevention are discussed and a generic methodology is outlined. This methodology consists of the following steps: • gaining knowledge about the behaviour of the material stored (reactivity, thermal stability, etc.), • assessing the environmental conditions for the storage site (neighbourhood, safety distances, etc.), • assessment of prospective consequences of an incident and • development of individual loss prevention conceptions. All steps require both experimental testing and theoretical considerations about accident scenarios as integral parts of the methodology. KW - Storage KW - Hazardous materials KW - Energy carriers PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2012.729524 SN - 1366-9877 SN - 1466-4461 N1 - Geburtsname von Vela-Wallenschus, Iris: Vela, I. - Birth name of Vela-Wallenschus, Iris: Vela, I. VL - 16 IS - 3-4 SP - 433 EP - 445 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London [u.a.] AN - OPUS4-26882 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kusche, Christian A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Verbrennungseffektivität als Grundlage für Brandlastberechnungen der DIN 18230 N2 - Die Brandlastberechnung für Industriebauten erfolgt in Deutschland entsprechend der DIN 18230-1. Brandlasten bestehen in den meisten Fällen aus verschiedenen brennbaren Feststoffen und Flüssigkeiten, die in Abhängigkeit ihrer Lagerungsart, ihren stofflichen Eigenschaften und den Ventilationsbedingungen unterschiedliche Wärmeleistungen zur Folge haben. Als Eingangsgröße zur Brandlastberechnung berücksichtigt der sogenannte Abbrandfaktor m (m-Faktor) das individuelle Abbrandverhalten von Feststoffen und Flüssigkeiten. Sein Wert ergibt sich aus dem Vergleich der zeitlichen Temperaturentwicklung beim Abbrand einer Probe mit der Referenzprobe. Bei der Referenzprobe handelt es sich um sägerauhes Fichtenholz, dem ein m-Faktor von m = 1,0 zugeordnet wurde. Die Bestimmung des m-Faktors erfolgte bis vor einigen Jahren entsprechend der DIN 18230-2 in dem m-Faktor-Ofen. Bis zu der Verschrottung des letzten in Deutschland existierenden m-Faktor-Ofens wurden mehr als 100 m-Faktoren von verschiedenen Stoffen ermittelt. Zurzeit ist es nicht möglich zur Brandlastermittlung m-Faktoren experimentell zu bestimmen. Da infolge industrieller Entwicklungen zunehmend neue Stoffe auf den Markt kommen, deren Abbrandverhalten zu bestimmen. T2 - 3. Magdeburger Brand- und Explosionsschutztag / vfdb-Workshop CY - Magdeburg, Germany DA - 21.03.2013 KW - Verbrennungseffektivität KW - Brandlastberechnung KW - Abbrandfaktor m PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-00-041601-9 SP - 1 EP - 12 AN - OPUS4-30074 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Löhnert, Andrea A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Monreal, Nils A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Numerische Analyse der Toxizität und Sichtverhältnisse im Brandrauch auf der Grundlage von experimentellen Untersuchungen von Polymeren im DIN-Rohr und Cone Calorimeter N2 - Im Rahmen der schutzzielorientierten Brandschutzbemessung müssen, neben dem Nachweis der Wirksamkeit von Schutzmaßnahmen, Nachweise zur Einhaltung von in Abhängigkeit des Sicherheitsniveaus festgelegter Grenzwerte für die zulässige Wärmestrahlung, die Temperatur der oberen und unteren Rauchschicht, die toxische Konzentration von Rauchgasen und die Mindestsichtweite zum Schutz von Personen im Bauwerk erbracht werden. T2 - 3. Magdeburger Brand- und Explosionsschutztag / vfdb-Workshop CY - Magdeburg, Germany DA - 21.03.2013 PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-00-041601-9 SP - 1 EP - 13 AN - OPUS4-30075 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Scheid, Marc A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Untersuchung des Explosionsverhaltens von Nano-Stäuben N2 - Dieser Beitrag beschreibt einen modifizierten Versuchsaufbau für die Prüfapparatur 20-L Kugel, der es ermöglicht, die zu untersuchenden Staubproben bis kurz vor deren Entzünden unter Ausschluss von Sauerstoff zu handhaben. Dieser modifizierte Aufbau wurde entwickelt, um die Bestimmung Sicherheitstechnischer Kenngrößen von möglichst unpassivierten Nanostäuben zu gewährleisten. Das Ziel dieser Modifikationen ist es, festzustellen, ob es bei der Standardapparatur und -prüfverfahren zu einer Unterschätzung der Explosionsheftigkeit und Zündempfindlichkeit durch Passivierung von Nanonstäuben vor der eigentlichen Untersuchung kommen könnte. Zu diesem Zweck wurden zwei verschiedene Methoden (das sogenannte Inertisierungsverfahren und das modifizierte Verfahren mit Verteilerschale) verwendet. Beide Methoden sind in diesem Artikel beschrieben. Er umfasst experimentelle Ergebnisse von Mikrostäuben, welche zur Validierung verwendet worden und darüber hinaus erste Ergebnisse mit Eisen und Aluminium Nanostäuben, die bis kurz vor dem Entzünden unter inerten Bedingungen gehandhabt worden. Das getestete Nano Eisen reagiert pyrophor, sobald es mit Luft in Kontakt kam, während bei dem untersuchten Nano Aluminium solches Verhalten nicht generell beobachtet werden konnte. Die Versuche mit Nano Aluminium und dem Inertisierungsverfahren zeigten einen höheren Druckanstieg im Vergleich zum Standard-Prüfverfahren. Dies könnte auf einen unterschiedlichen Grad der Passivierung hindeuten. Um diese Beobachtung näher zu untersuchen, sind weitere Versuche mit einer größeren Anzahl an Stäuben notwendig. T2 - 3. Magdeburger Brand- und Explosionsschutztag / vfdb-Workshop CY - Magdeburg, Germany DA - 21.03.2013 KW - Explosion KW - Brennbare Stäube KW - Nanostäube PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-00-041601-9 SP - 1 EP - 11 AN - OPUS4-28849 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wu, Dejian A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Huang, W. A1 - Wei, A. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Wu, W. T1 - Inhibition effect of N2/CO2 blends on the minimum explosion concentration of agriculture and coal dusts N2 - Minimum explosion concentration (MEC) of three agriculture dusts and two coal dusts was studied via a 20-L explosion chamber to reveal the role of gaseous inhibitors. Both active method (CO2 diluting air) and passive method (CO2 replacing O2) were used. The TG and DTG thermal analysis tests were conducted to study the pyrolysis and combustion characteristics of dust samples. An alternative explosion criterion based on combustion duration time was used to determine MEC, and compared with the standardized overpressure method. Under 10-kJ ignition condition, as oxygen mole fraction (XO2) decreased from 21% to 10%, MEC of agriculture dusts and coal dusts respectively increased by around 5 times and 2 times. The active inerting method with a lower N2/CO2 ratio was found to have a better suppression effect on the explosion of the five carbonaceous dusts because the blend has a higher specific heat and a lower oxygen diffusion rate. KW - CO2/N2 ratio KW - Explosion criterion KW - Combustion kinetics KW - Inerting effect KW - Explosion characteristics PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2022.117195 SN - 0032-5910 VL - 399 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-55013 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Tschirschwitz, Rico A1 - Schröder, Volkmar A1 - Brandes, E. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Bestimmungsverfahren sicherheitstechnischer Kenngrößen bei nichtatmosphärischen Bedingungen N2 - Es werden die Untersuchungsergebnisse für ein geeignetes Zündkriterium zur Bestimmung von Explosionsgrenzen bei nichtatmosphärischen Bedingungen vorgestellt. Dazu wurden für Anfangsdrücke bis 20 bar Zündversuche an den Explosionsgrenzen von CHL/Luft-, CaHg/Luft-, H2/Luft- und NHs/Luft-Gemischen in einem Autoklav mit Sichtscheibe durchgeführt. In der Auswertung wurden visuelle Zündkriterien und ein Druckschwellenkriterium miteinander verglichen. Weiterhin wurden Untersuchungen zum erforderlichen Mindesvolumen des Explosionsgefäßes in Abhängigkeit des Anfangsdrucks durchgeführt. Dazu wurden jeweils Zündversuche mit demselben Gemisch aus CH4 und Luft bei Anfangsdrücken bis 50 bar in Volumina zwischen 0,2 dm3 und 6,0 dm3 durchgeführt. T2 - 3. Magdeburger Brand- und Explosionsschutztag / vfdb-Workshop CY - Magdeburg, Germany DA - 21.03.2013 KW - Kenngrößen KW - Nichtatmosphärische Bedingungen KW - Zündkriterium PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-00-041601-9 SP - 1 EP - 12 AN - OPUS4-28271 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Tschirschwitz, Rico A1 - Schröder, Volkmar A1 - Brandes, E. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Zündkriterien für die Bestimmung von Explosionsgrenzen bei erhöhten Ausgangsdrücken N2 - Sicherheitstechnischen Kenngrößen stellen die Grundlage für die Bewertung von Explosionsrisiken in der chemischen Industrie dar, sowie für die Klassifizierung von gefährlichen Stoffen und Gütern. Sicherheitstechnische Kenngrößen sind, wie Stoff konstanten (z. B. Dichte, Siedepunkt) abhängig von Druck und Temperatur. Im Gegensatz zu Stoffkonstanten sind sicherheitstechnische Kenngrößen jedoch in unterschiedlichem Maße vom Bestimmungsverfahren abhängig. Einfluss können sowohl die Prüfapparatur (z. B. Zündgefäß, Zündquelle) als auch das Bestimmungsverfahren (vor allem das Kriterium) haben. Für die Anwendung im Explosionsschutz ist es erforderlich einheitliche und zuverlässige Werte für die Kenngrößen zu erhalten. Daher sind die Bestimmungsverfahren für Explosionskenngrößen in den meisten Fällen genormt. Sie sind in der Regel dem Geltungsbereich der europäischen Richtlinien 94/9/EG und 1999/92/EG zugeordnet. Wegen des Anwendungsbereiches der Richtlinien gelten bislang die meisten dieser genormten Bestimmungsverfahren (z. B. Explosionsgrenzen (EN 1839), Zündtemperatur (EN 14522)) nur für atmosphärische Bedingungen. Jedoch werden in der chemischen Industrie viele Prozesse mit anderen Oxidationsmitteln als Luft (z. B. reiner Sauerstoff, Distickstoffmonoxid) sowie bei höheren Drücken und Temperaturen durchgeführt. T2 - 11. Fachtagung Anlagen-, Arbeits- und Umweltsicherheit CY - Köthen, Germany DA - 07.11.2013 KW - Kenngrößen KW - Nichtatmosphärische Bedingungen KW - Zündkriterium PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-86011-058-4 SP - 1 EP - 5 AN - OPUS4-29530 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Tschirschwitz, Rico A1 - Schröder, Volkmar A1 - Brandes, E. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Determination of explosion limits - criterion for ignition under non-atmospheric conditions T2 - X ISHPMIE - 10th International symposium on hazards, prevention, and mitigation of industrial explosions CY - Bergen, Norway DA - 2014-06-10 KW - Explosion limits KW - Ignition criterion KW - Standardization KW - Non-atmospheric conditions PY - 2014 SN - 978-82-999683-0-0 SP - 291 EP - 302 AN - OPUS4-31299 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tschirschwitz, Rico A1 - Schröder, Volkmar A1 - Brandes, E. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Determination of explosion limits - Criterion for ignition under non-atmospheric conditions N2 - Many industrial processes are run at non-atmospheric conditions (elevated temperatures and pressures, other oxidizers than air). To judge whether and if yes to what extent explosive gas(vapor)/air mixtures will occur or may be generated during malfunction it is necessary to know the safety characteristic data at the respective conditions. Safety characteristic data like Explosion limits, are depending on pressure, temperature and the oxidizer. Most of the determination methods are standardized for ambient conditions. In order to obtain determination methods for non-atmospheric conditions, particularly for higher initial pressures, reliable ignition criteria were investigated. Ignition tests at the explosion Limits were carried out for mixtures of methane, propane, n-butane, n-hexane, hydrogen, ammonia and acetone in air at initial pressures up to 20 bar. The tests have been evaluated according to different ignition criteria: visual flame propagation, temperature and pressure rising. It could be shown that flame propagation and occasionally self-sustained combustion for several seconds occurred together with remarkable temperature rise, although the pressure rise was below 3%. The results showed that the combination of a pressure rise criterion of 2% and a temperature rise criterion of 100 K seems to be a suitable ignition criterion for the determination of explosion limits and limiting oxidizer concentration at higher initial pressures and elevated temperatures. The tests were carried out within the framework of a R&D project founded by the German Ministry of Economics and Technology. KW - Explosion limits KW - Ignition criterion KW - Standardization KW - Non-atmospheric conditions PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2015.01.012 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 36 SP - 562 EP - 568 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-36954 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Berchtold, Florian A1 - Forell, B. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Probabilistic set of filter criteria in the frame of Fire PSA N2 - Filter criteria in the Frame of Fire PSA identify compartments in a first qualitative analysis for which the contribution to the overall core damage frequency of the NPP is negligible. The aim of the filter criteria is to reduce the number of compartments to be analysed precisely in Fire PSA. One example for filter criteria is the 'fire load criterion'. By the fire load criterion compartments with a fire load density of less than 90 MJ/m² are 'screened out' which means to exclude them from a precise analysis in Fire PSA. Neither the justification of the particular value of 90 MJ/m² is well documented nor does this criterion take into account varying compartment configurations such as ventilation conditions, physical and chemical properties of the fire load as well as compartment characteristics. A probabilistic set of filter criteria was developed to overcome the restrictions of the fire load criterion. In line with the 'fire load criterion', the probabilistic set of filter criteria assumes that a compartment can be screened out if a fire is not able to cause any damage to other components within the compartment. Therefore, the electrical failure of an electrical cable conservatively represents the damages of all components. It is assumed that the electrical cable failure occurs when the maximum cable temperature exceeds an experimentally determined failure temperature. The maximum cable temperature that can occur in a compartment fire is mainly influenced by the four significant factors: 1. inlet air stream of the mechanical ventilation, 2. the fire growth rate, 3. the compartment floor area and 4. the compartment height. A parameter study revealed how the significant factors affect the maximum cable temperature in fictitious compartment fires. The results of the parameter study are transferred on true Nuclear Power Plant compartments. However, it is not possible to determine precisely the occurrence of an electrical cable failure because of uncertainties in the maximum cable temperature and the failure temperature. The probabilistic set of filter criteria considers these uncertainties and determines the probability of cable failure for true compartments to be screened in Fire PSA. Finally, a compartment can be screened out in Fire PSA if the failure probability exceeds a predefined accepted threshold value for the failure probability. The theoretical application of the methodology is shown at the end of the paper. T2 - International workshop on fire PRA CY - Garching, Germany DA - 28.04.2014 PY - 2014 SP - Paper 1-3 EP - 1-15 AN - OPUS4-31316 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kaudelka, Sven A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Anwendung und Vergleich von Verfahren zur Berechnung der äquivalenten Branddauer im Industriebau N2 - Die äquivalente Branddauer tä wird zur Bestimmung der Feuerwiderstandsdauer erftp von Bauteilen in Industriebauten verwendet. Die Berechnung erfolgt bislang auf der Grundlage des normativenAnsatzes nach DIN 18230 (Verfahren I) und gilt im Zusammenhang mit der Muster-Industriebaurichtlinie (M IndBauRL). Im Rahmen von brandschutztechnischen Nachweisen für Industriebauten ist es ebenfalls möglich, die äquivalente Branddauer unter Anwendung numerischer Methoden zu berechnen (Verfahren II). Die Anwendung solcher Ingenieurmethoden des Brandschutzes ermöglichen die Berücksichtigung komplexer Gebäudegeometrien und Ventialtionsbedingungen sowie lokaler Brandwirkungen auf Bauteile infolge inhomogener Brandlastverteilungen. Am Beispiel einer Industriehalle werden die Verfahren I und II angewendet und die Ergebnisse gegenübergestellt. T2 - 11. Fachtagung Anlagen-, Arbeits- und Umweltsicherheit CY - Köthen, Germany DA - 07.11.2013 KW - Äquivalente Branddauer KW - Numerische Simulation KW - Brandszenarien PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-86011-058-4 IS - P-02 SP - 1 EP - 4 AN - OPUS4-30226 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klippel, Alexander A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Mücke, Olaf A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Dust concentration measurements during filling of a silo and CFD modeling of filling processes regarding exceeding the lower explosion limit N2 - Measurement and numerical simulation of local dust concentrations over time in a vessel can only be done with some uncertainty due to the complexity of the behavior of dust/air mixtures. Dust concentration was measured in a 50 m³ vessel and compared to simulations with a commercial CFD code. A 50 m³ silo was used with two different filling methods. In one setup dust was conveyed with pneumatic filling at the top. The other filling was done with pressurized air and a homogenous injection via eight nozzles. Experiments were repeated three to four times with two kinds of dusts and the results were used to evaluate reproducibility of dust concentration measurements over time in a vessel depending on the filling method. Dust concentrations over time varied up to 30% from the average for homogenous injection and even more for pneumatic filling. Numerical investigations were done with maize starch. Measured concentrations were compared to simulated ones with the commercial CFD code ANSYS CFX R14 using an Euler/Lagrange approach. Drag force, turbulent dispersion force, particle size distribution, particle surface area and particle/particle interaction were modeled. A general agreement of measurement and simulation was achieved. Numerical simulations of filling processes were used to predict parts of the vessel where the lower explosion limit is reached and exceeded. This could help to improve dust explosion protection, if it is used to find configurations where the dust concentration exceeds the lower explosion limit only in small parts of the vessel during filling, e.g. using different injection points or injection angles. The volume where LEL is reached or exceeded in a 50 m³ silo is shown for pneumatic and homogenous filling. Volume of combustible atmosphere in the vessel over time is compared for two pneumatic filling configurations and one worst-case homogenous injection configuration. KW - CFD KW - Euler/Lagrange approach KW - Dust explosion protection KW - Dust concentration measurement KW - Dust explosion KW - Dustiness KW - Dispersion KW - Venting PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2014.02.006 SN - 0950-4230 SN - 1873-3352 VL - 29 SP - 122 EP - 137 PB - Butterworth CY - Guildford, Surrey AN - OPUS4-30330 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krause, Martin A1 - Dackermann, U. A1 - Li, J. T1 - Elastic wave modes for the assessment of structural timber: ultrasonic echo for building elements and guided waves for pole and pile structures N2 - This paper presents the state-of-the-art of using non-destructive testing (NDT) methods based on elastic waves for the condition assessment of structural timber. Two very promising approaches based on the propagation and reflections of elastic waves are described. While the first approach uses ultrasonic echoes for the testing of wooden building elements, the second approach uses guided waves (GW) for the testing of timber pole and pile structures. The basic principle behind both approaches is that elastic waves induced in a timber structure will propagate through its material until they encounter a change in stiffness, cross-sectional area or density, at which point they will reflect back. By measuring the wave echoes, it is possible to determine geometric properties of the tested structures such as the back wall of timber elements or the underground length of timber poles or piles. In addition, the internal state of the tested structures can be assessed since damage and defects such as rot, fungi or termite attacks will cause early reflections of the elastic waves as well as it can result in changes in wave velocity, wave attenuation and wave mode conversion. In the paper, the principles and theory of using elastic wave propagation for the assessment of wooden building elements and timber pole/pile structures are described. The state-of-the-art in testing equipment and procedures is presented and detailed examples are given on the practical application of both testing approaches. Recent encouraging developments of cutting edge research are presented along with challenges for future research. KW - Elastic wave KW - Ultrasonic echo KW - SAFT (synthetic aperture focusing technique) KW - Guided wave KW - Timber structure KW - Timber pole KW - Impulse response KW - Condition assessment KW - Timber KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Ultrasouind PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s13349-014-0087-2 SN - 2190-5452 SN - 2190-5479 VL - 5 IS - 2 SP - 221 EP - 249 PB - Springer CY - Berlin; Heidelberg AN - OPUS4-31867 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Scheid, Marc A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Explosion behaviour of metallic nano powders N2 - This paper describes experiences and results of experiments with several metallic dusts within the nanometer range. The nano dusts (aluminium, iron, zinc, titanium and copper) were tested in a modified experimental setup for the test apparatus 20 L-sphere (also known as 20-L Siwek Chamber), that enables the test samples to be kept under inert atmospheric conditions nearly until ignition. This setup was already introduced in earlier papers by the authors. It was designed to allow the determination of safety characteristics of nano powders under most critical circumstances (e.g. minimisation of the influence of oxidation before the test itself). Furthermore the influence of passivation on explosion behaviour is investigated and additional tests with deposited dust were carried out to describe the burning behaviour of all dusts. For a better characterisation all samples were tested with a simultaneous thermal analysis (STA). To minimise the influence of oxidation all samples were handled at inert conditions until shortly before ignition or start of the test respectively. T2 - X ISHPMIE - 10th International symposium on hazards, prevention, and mitigation of industrial explosions CY - Bergen, Norway DA - 10.06.2014 KW - Dust explosion KW - Nano dust KW - Ignition KW - Explosion protection PY - 2014 SN - 978-82-999683-0-0 SP - 1475 EP - 1485 AN - OPUS4-30938 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Brand- und Explosionseigenschaften von nanoskalig hergestellten Stäuben N2 - Nanotechnologie gilt als die Wachstumsbranche der nächsten Jahrzehnte. Nicht zuletzt ist diese Entwicklung den veränderten Eigenschaften der Materialien im Nanometerbereich zuzuschreiben. Das anders geartete Verhalten solcher Stoffe und die daraus ableitbare Unkenntnis über die Interaktion dieser Materialien mit ihrer Umgebung erfordert zur Risikoabschätzung eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik. Aufgrund von Erfahrungen mit Stäuben mit Partikelgrößen im Mikrometerbereich ist bekannt, dass Stoffe mit abnehmender Partikelgröße kritischer einzustufen sind, da ihre Explosionsheftigkeit und Zündempfindlichkeit durch die Zunahme der reaktiven Oberfläche des Staubs zunimmt. Nachfolgend werden Ergebnisse von Versuchen mit nanoskalig hergestellten Metallstäuben präsentiert. Der Fokus dieser Studie lag darauf, möglichst das kritischste Brand- und Explosionsverhalten solcher Stäube zu erfassen. KW - Staubexplosion KW - Nanostäube KW - Sicherheitstechnische Kenngrößen PY - 2014 SN - 2191-0073 VL - 4 IS - 9 SP - 44 EP - 49 PB - Springer-VDI-Verl. CY - Düsseldorf AN - OPUS4-31395 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Scheid, Marc A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Explosion behaviour of metallic nano powders N2 - This paper describes experiences and results of experiments with several metallic dusts within the nanometer range. The nano dusts (aluminium, iron, zinc, titanium and copper) were tested in a modified experimental setup for the test apparatus 20 L-sphere (also known as 20-L Siwek Chamber), that enables the test samples to be kept under inert atmospheric conditions nearly until ignition. This setup was already introduced in earlier papers by the authors. It was designed to allow the determination of safety characteristics of nano powders under most critical circumstances (e.g. minimisation of the influence of oxidation before the test itself). Furthermore the influence of passivation on explosion behaviour is investigated and additional tests with deposited dust were carried out to describe the burning behaviour of all dusts. For a better characterisation all samples were tested with a simultaneous thermal analysis (STA). To minimise the influence of oxidation all samples were handled at inert conditions until shortly before ignition or start of the test respectively. KW - Dust explosion KW - Nano powder KW - Ignition KW - Explosion protection PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2015.03.016 SN - 0950-4230 SN - 1873-3352 VL - 36 SP - 237 EP - 243 PB - Butterworth CY - Guildford, Surrey AN - OPUS4-33026 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klippel, Alexander A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Dustiness in workplace safety and explosion protection - review and outlook N2 - Behavior of dust/air mixtures is very complex and difficult to predict since it depends on material properties as well as boundary conditions. Without other influences airborne particles deposit due to gravity but the time it takes for total deposition as well as easiness of resurrection depends very much on the specific dust sample and the boundary conditions. It still lacks a complete understanding of all interacting reasons and one approach is using experimentally determined characteristics, one is named dustiness. Dustiness is the tendency of dust to form clouds and to stay airborne. Dustiness is determined with two basic principles, which are light attenuation and ratio of filled-in and measured mass. Assessment of dustiness of industrial powders has been done for a long time regarding work place safety. Dustiness is used there to determine inhalable fraction and to evaluate health risks. Lately it became interesting in dust explosion protection as well. Dustiness could be used to optimize determination of zones, adaption of venting area and/or for positioning of suppression systems. Dustiness can be useful in many ways but is not a physical property of dusts, therefore it depends on material properties such as density, particle size distribution, shape and water content as well as boundary conditions or determination method. This makes it very difficult to compare dustiness for different techniques and apparatuses and determination method as well as results should be considered carefully. This work gives an overview of existing standards, recent research and suggests improvements to the new dustiness as proposed for dust explosion protection. KW - Dustiness KW - Measurement methods KW - Workplace exposure KW - Dust explosion protection PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2015.01.011 SN - 0950-4230 SN - 1873-3352 VL - 34 SP - 22 EP - 29 PB - Butterworth CY - Guildford, Surrey AN - OPUS4-32467 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kusche, Christian A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Hahn, S.-K. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Experimental investigations of the combustion efficiency for fire load calculations T1 - Experimetelle Untersuchungen der Verbrennungseffektivität für Brandlastberechnungen N2 - The amount of heat, which is released by fire loads during the combustion process, depends on the material characteristics, the ventilation conditions, the storage density and the distribution. To evaluate the structural stability of buildings in case of fire, the fire load has to be quantified. In Germany, the fire load is quantified by using the combustion factor m, while internationally the combustion efficiency χ is applied. Both factors assess the burning behavior of materials, but the determination is carried out in different ways. Since the testing facility was abolished fifteen years ago, it is not possible to determine the combustion factor m anymore. So, it should be found out, if the combustion efficiency χ is a convenient method to quantify the fire load under the consideration of the German standards. As a part of the research, combustion efficiencies χ were determined for eight materials in the cone calorimeter and the single burning item test at different heat fluxes. The values of the combustion efficiencies χ as well as the corresponding combustion factors m were discussed and compared to the values of the literature. The results show an influence of the testing facility on the combustion efficiency. The values of the combustion efficiency determined in the single burning item test were higher than the values from the cone calorimeter. N2 - Die Wärmefreisetzung einer Brandlast im Brandfall hängt von den Materialeigenschaften, den Ventilationsbedingungen, der Lagerungsdichte und der Verteilung im Brandraum ab. Die Festlegung der erforderlichen Feuerwiderstandsdauer in industriellen Gebäuden erfolgt auf Basis der Brandlast. In Deutschland dient der Abbrandfaktor m (m-Faktor) zur Berechnung der Brandlast, wohingegen international die Verbrennungseffektivität χ zur Berechnung verwendet wird. Zwar charakterisieren beide Faktoren das Abbrandverhalten von Stoffen, jedoch sind ihre Bestimmungsmethoden unterschiedlich. Seit der Abschaffung des letzten m-Faktor-Ofens vor mehr als 15 Jahren, ist die Bestimmung von m-Faktoren nicht mehr möglich. Daher soll untersucht werden, ob die Verbrennungseffektivität χ an Stelle des m-Faktors zur Berechnung der Brandlast im Rahmen deutscher Normen verwendet werden kann. Für diese Untersuchungen wurde die Verbrennungseffektivität χ von acht Stoffen im Cone Calorimeter und im Single Burning Item Test bei unterschiedlichen Wärmestromdichten bestimmt. Die ermittelten Werte der Verbrennungseffektivität χ wurden den bestehenden m-Faktoren gegenübergestellt und mit Werten aus der Literatur verglichen. Die Untersuchungen haben ergeben, dass die Prüfapparaturen zu unterschiedlichen Verbrennungseffektivitäten führen. Die Werte aus der Messung des SBI waren höher als die des Cone Calorimeters KW - Combustion efficiency KW - Combustion factor KW - Fire load density KW - Cone calorimeter KW - Single burning item test PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.3139/120.110795 SN - 0025-5300 VL - 57 IS - 10 SP - 843 EP - 849 PB - Carl Hanser Verlag CY - München AN - OPUS4-38738 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kusche, Christian A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Ermittlung von Verbrennungseffizienzen für Feststoffe N2 - Brandlasten stellen eine Gefahr für den Menschen sowie für das industrielle Gebäude dar, in dem sie gelagert sind. Das Brandverhalten der Brandlasten bestimmt dabei maßgeblich die Schwere der Gefahr. Brandschutzmaßnahmen dienen dazu, im Brandfall das Schadensausmaß zu minimieren. Um geeignete Brandschutzmaßnahmen ableiten zu können, ist es erforderlich, das Brandverhalten der Materialien zu bewerten. Eine international angewandte Möglichkeit zur Bewertung des Brandverhaltens von Feststoffen und Flüssigkeiten ist die Verbrennungseffizienz χ. Sie ist das Verhältnis der während einer Verbrennung effektiv freigesetzten Wärme (effektive Verbrennungswärme) zu der maximal möglichen Wärmemenge (Heizwert). Die Grundlage zur Bestimmung von Verbrennungseffizienzen stellen die Wärmefreisetzungsrate (HRR) und die Massenverlustrate (MLR) dar. Ein standardisiertes Bestimmungsverfahren existiert nicht. So liegt es in dem Ermessen des Anwenders, in welcher Prüfapparatur die Experimente durchgeführt werden und welcher Zeitbereich der HRR und der MLR zur Berechnung der Verbrennungseffizienz verwendet wird. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden Versuche im Cone Calorimeter und im Single Burning Item test anhand von hölzernen Materialien durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen auf, dass sich in Abhängigkeit von der verwendeten Prüfapparatur und in Abhängigkeit des für die Berechnung betrachten Versuchszeitraumes verschiedene Werte der Verbrennungseffizienz ergeben. Auf Grundlage dieser Erkenntnisse wurde eine Methode entwickelt, mit der reproduzierbare Werte berechnet werden können. Dabei erfolgt die Berechnung lediglich für die Vollbrandphase. Diese Brandphase stellt die Hauptbrandphase dar und ist durch eine gleichmäßige Verbrennung mit wenigen Änderungen in der Branddynamik gekennzeichnet. T2 - 5. Magdeburger Brand- und Explosionsschutztage 2017 CY - Magdeburg, Germany DA - 23.03.2017 KW - Verbrennungseffizienzen KW - Rechenmodelle KW - Cone Calorimeter KW - Single Burning Item test KW - Brandverhalten KW - Modellierung von Bränden KW - Rauchausbreitung KW - Validierung KW - Brandlastberechnung PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-00-056201-3 DO - https://doi.org/10.978.300/0562013 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg CY - Magdeburg AN - OPUS4-40047 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hahn, S.-K. A1 - Rost, M. A1 - Kusche, Christian A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Dokumentation der Entwicklung des m-Faktors und neuer Aspekt der Verbrennungseffizienz T1 - Structural fire protection in industrial buildings - development of the m-factor and new aspect of the combustion efficiency N2 - Vor dem Hintergrund der Zurückziehung der DIN 18230 Teil 2 zur Bestimmung des m-Faktors von Materialien für die Brandlastbewertung im Industriebau müssen neue Wege gefunden werden, wie das Abbrandverhalten alternativ quantifiziert werden kann. Der Beitrag fasst die Entstehung und die Entwicklung der Bestimmungsweise von Abbrandfaktoren zusammen und gibt Ausblick auf eine neue Möglichkeit zur Bewertung von Brandlasten, die Verbrennungseffizienz. KW - Abbrandfaktor KW - DIN 18230 KW - Indrustriebau KW - Brandschutz im Brandlast KW - Verbrennungseffizienz PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/bate.201700020 SN - 0932-8351 SN - 1437-0999 VL - 94 IS - 6 SP - 337 EP - 343 PB - Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-40962 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Werrel, Martin A1 - Deubel, Jan A1 - Krüger, Simone A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Krause, U. T1 - The calculation of the heat release rate by oxygen consumption in a controlled-atmosphere cone calorimeter N2 - The standard cone calorimeter according to ASTM E 1354 and ISO 5660 enables reaction-to-fire tests to be performed in ambient atmospheric conditions. A controlled-atmosphere chamber modifies the standard apparatus in a way that allows tests to be performed in nonambient conditions as well. The enclosed chamber is placed underneath the standard exhaust hood and does not have a closed connection to the hood. With this open arrangement, the exhaust gases are diluted by excess air drawn in from the laboratory surroundings. Heat-induced changes in the consequential dilution ratio affect the calculation of fire quantities and, when neglected, lead to deviations of up to 30% in heat release rate. The paper introduces a test protocol and equations to calculate the heat release rate taking dilution effects into account. A mathematical correction is shown that compensates for the dilution effects while avoiding extensive mechanical changes in the equipment. KW - Controlled-atmosphere cone calorimeter KW - Heat release rate KW - Oxygen consumption KW - Cone calorimeter KW - Vitiation and ventilation control KW - Excess air PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.2175 SN - 0308-0501 SN - 1099-1018 VL - 38 IS - 2 SP - 204 EP - 226 PB - Heyden CY - London AN - OPUS4-30317 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Geoerg, Paul A1 - Rost, M. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja T1 - Vergleichende Untersuchung zur Personensicherheit am Beispiel eines Seminarraumes N2 - Um den Anforderungen der Bauordnung an den Brandschutz für Gebäude gerecht zu werden, sind bauliche Anlagen so zu errichten und zu betreiben, dass der Entstehung eines Brandes und der Ausbreitung von Feuer und Rauch vorgebeugt, die Rettung von Menschen und Tieren sowie wirksame Löscharbeiten ermöglicht werden. Hierbei besteht, einer steigenden Komplexität sowie einem differenzierten Nutzungskonzept öffentlicher Gebäude geschuldet, häufig die Notwendigkeit von normativen Vorgaben abzuweichen und dennoch ein gleichwertiges Sicherheitsniveau nachzuweisen. Es werden Personensimulationsmodelle eingesetzt, die einerseits das Vorhandensein eines Schutzzielniveaus durch die Abbildungen von Personenbewegungen nachweisen können und andererseits durch Parametervariation eine szenarienabhängige Betrachtung ermöglichen. Der vorliegende Beitrag vergleicht die Ergebnisse einer kleinskaligen Evakuierungsübung mit drei mikroskopischen Personensimulationsmodellen und geht der Frage nach der Aussagekraft dieser Bewertungsmethode nach. Es zeigt sich, dass die alleinige Betrachtung absoluter Entleerungszeiten keine zuverlässige Beurteilungsgrundlage für das komplexe Schutzziel Personensicherheit darstellt. T2 - 4. Magdeburger Brand- und Explosionsschutztag / 3. vfdb-Workshop Brandschutzforschung CY - Magdeburg, Germany DA - 26.03.2015 KW - Evakuierung KW - Routenwahl KW - Fußgänger KW - Sicherheit KW - Simulation PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-00-048960-0 SP - 1 EP - 13 AN - OPUS4-33123 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kaudelka, Sven A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Hauswaldt, S. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Auswirkung von Zündquellen und Systembeschaffenheit auf das Brandverhalten EPS-basierter Wärmedämm-Verbundsysteme N2 - Gegenstand des Aufsatzes ist die experimentelle Untersuchung der Auswirkungen verschiedener Zündquellen sowie der Systembeschaffenheit auf das Brandverhalten EPS-basierter Wärmedämm-Verbundsysteme (WDVS). Dazu wurden Brände ausgewertet, die mit EPS-basierten WDVS in Verbindung stehen. Ergebnis dieser Auswertung war, dass nicht wie bisher angenommen der Brand in dem Gebäude (z. B. der Wohnungsbrand), sondern vielmehr der Brand außerhalb des Gebäudes, insbesondere der des Abfallbehälters, das häufigste und kritischste Brandszenario für EPS-basierte WDVS darstellt. Daraufhin wurden an der BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung Brandversuche in der Single Burning Item-Prüfeinrichtung (SBI) an nicht intakten EPS-basierten WDVS-Ausschnitten durchgeführt. Mit zunehmender Beschädigungsgröße und -tiefe stieg die vom System freigesetzte Wärmefreisetzungsrate an. Zusätzlich werden Brandversuche eines Sockelbrandszenarios mit einer abfallbehälteräquivalenten Brandlast vorgestellt. Aus den Brandversuchen werden Empfehlungen zur Verbesserung der Systemsicherheit abgeleitet.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The influence of different ignition sources and conditions of the systems on the fire behaviour of external thermal insulating systems (ETICS) have been investigated experimentally. As a basis of the investigations real cases with EPS based ETICS have been analysed. The analysis showed that the fire in front of the building is the most common and critical fire scenario for these systems. These fires are often caused by waste containers. This result contradicts the former common assumption that the fire inside the building is the most critical fire scenario for ETICS. Intermediate scale experiments in the Single Burning Item (SBI) test apparatus have been performed at BAM with ETICS specimens. The render of the systems was partially damaged. The measured heat release rate of the specimens increased significantly with size and depths of the damages. Additionally results of large scale experiments with a waste container equivalent ignition source are presented and recommendations to enhance fire safety of these systems are given. KW - Fassaden KW - Wärmedämm-Verbundsystem (WDVS) KW - Expandiertes Polystyrol (EPS) KW - Brandverhalten von Baustoffen KW - Bemessungsbrandszenario KW - Sockelbrand KW - Abfallbehälter KW - ET/CS KW - External thermal insulation composite system KW - Expanded polystyrene KW - Waste containers KW - Released heat rate KW - Plinths-based fire scenario KW - Single burning item test KW - Single Burning Item-Prüfeinrichtung (SBI) KW - Wärmefreisetzungsrate KW - DIBt-Empfehlung KW - Façades KW - Brandschutz - Fire protection engineering PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/bapi.201510023 SN - 0171-5445 SN - 1437-0980 VL - 37 IS - 4 SP - 205 EP - 212 PB - Ernst CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-33835 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Werrel, Martin A1 - Deubel, Jan A1 - Krüger, Simone A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Antonatus, E. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Duerler, F. T1 - Use and benefit of a controlled-atmosphere cone calorimeter N2 - A controlled-atmosphere cone calorimeter that is built by modifying the Standard apparatus with the addition of a controlled-atmosphere chamber offers a time- and cost-saving approach for reaction-to-fire testing in vitiation- and ventilation-controlled atmospheres. Due to the design of the added enclosure no mechanical changes on cone calorimeter’s Standard ductwork are required. This offers some advantages but also important limitations. The design has an open connection between the outlet of the added enclosure and the cone calorimeter’s exhaust hood. Therefore, sufficient ambient air from the laboratory surroundings is drawn into the System to introduce effects which have the potential to affect test results significantly. A procedure which is is suitable to consider physical effects of the ambient air on the calculation of the heat release rate is presented as well as initial results of an application towards toxic potency assessment. Signs for Chemical effects of the ambient air such as post reactions are shown but subject of an ongoing work. T2 - Fire and materials 2013 - 13th International conference and exhibition CY - San Francisco, CA, USA DA - 28.01.2013 KW - Controlled-atmosphere cone calorimeter KW - Heat release rate KW - Oxygen consumption KW - Smoke toxicity PY - 2013 SP - 273 EP - 286 PB - Interscience Communications CY - London, UK AN - OPUS4-27707 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Geoerg, Paul A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Comparative study of evacuation dynamics using a lecturer room N2 - Computer simulation tools were used to evaluate pedestrian movement. This study compares the reliability of three simulation tools and the calculation method by Predtetschenski und Milinski with a controlled evacuation exercise of a lecturer room. The comparison shows that each simulation tool used underestimate the total evacuation time and that an indicator for a low level of fitness does not necessarily lead to a long evacuation time. Results revealed that calibration of simulation tools is required to model heterogeneous population properly. Therefore, further experiments with a realistic, heterogeneous composition of participants have to be made. T2 - 6th international symposium on human behaviour in fire 2015 CY - Cambridge, UK DA - 28.09.2015 KW - Pedestrian KW - Simulation KW - Evacuation KW - Heterogeneous groups PY - 2015 SN - 978-0-9933933-0-3 SP - 667 EP - 670 AN - OPUS4-34549 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Löhnert, Andrea A1 - Monreal, Nils A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Krause, U. T1 - CFD modeling approach of smoke toxicity and opacity for flaming and non-flaming combustion processes N2 - Current engineer’s methods of fire safety design include various approaches to calculate the fire Propagation and smoke spread in buildings by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Because of the increased computational capacity, CFD is commonly used for prediction of time-dependent safety parameters such as critical temperature, smoke layer height, rescue times, distributions of chemical products, and smoke toxicity and visibility. The analysis of smoke components with CFD is particularly complex, because the composition of the fire gases and also the smoke quantities depends on material properties and also on ambient and burning conditions. Oxygen concentrations and the temperature distribution in the compartment affect smoke production and smoke gas toxicity qualitatively and quantitatively. For safety designs, it can be necessary to take these influences into account. Current smoke models in CFD often use a constant smoke yield that does not vary with different fire conditions. If smoke gas toxicity is considered, a simple approach with the focus on carbon monoxide is often used. On the basis of a large set of experimental data, a numerical smoke model has been developed. The developed numerical smoke model includes optical properties, production, and toxic potential of smoke under different conditions. For the setup of the numerical model, experimental data were used for calculation of chemical components and evaluation of smoke toxicity under different combustion conditions. Therefore, averaged reaction equations were developed from experimental measurements and implemented in ANSYS CFX 14.0. KW - Fire modeling KW - Fire safety KW - Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) KW - Smoke toxicity PY - 2016 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.2340 SN - 1099-1018 VL - 40 IS - 6 SP - 759 EP - 772 PB - Wiley CY - West Sussex, UK AN - OPUS4-37514 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hachenberger, Y. U. A1 - Rosenkranz, D. A1 - Kriegel, Fabian L. A1 - Krause, B. A1 - Matschaß, René A1 - Reichardt, P. A1 - Tentschert, J. A1 - Laux, P. A1 - Jakubowski, Norbert A1 - Panne, Ulrich A1 - Luch, A. T1 - Tackling Complex Analytical Tasks: An ISO/TS-Based Validation Approach for Hydrodynamic Chromatography Single Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry N2 - Nano-carrier systems such as liposomes have promising biomedical applications. Nevertheless, characterization of these complex samples is a challenging analytical task. In this study a coupled hydrodynamic chromatography-single particle-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (HDC-spICP-MS) approach was validated based on the technical specification (TS) 19590:2017 of the international organization for standardization (ISO). The TS has been adapted to the hyphenated setup. The quality criteria (QC), e.g., linearity of the calibration, transport efficiency, were investigated. Furthermore, a cross calibration of the particle size was performed with values from dynamic light scattering (DLS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Due to an additional Y-piece, an online-calibration routine was implemented. This approach allows the calibration of the ICP-MS during the dead time of the chromatography run, to reduce the required time and enhance the robustness of the results. The optimized method was tested with different gold nanoparticle (Au-NP) mixtures to investigate the characterization properties of HDC separations for samples with increasing complexity. Additionally, the technique was successfully applied to simultaneously determine both the hydrodynamic radius and the Au-NP content in liposomes. With the established hyphenated setup, it was possible to distinguish between different subpopulations with various NP loads and different hydrodynamic diameters inside the liposome carriers. KW - Single particle ICP-MS KW - Nanoparticle characterization KW - Nano-carrier KW - Iposomes KW - Hydrodynamic chromatography (HDC) KW - Validation PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-506609 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13061447 VL - 13 IS - 6 SP - 1 EP - 14 CY - Basel, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-50660 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kaudelka, Sven A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Ansätze zur numerischen Berechnung von Brandeinwirkungen auf Bauteile N2 - Bei der Erstellung von brandschutztechnischen Nachweisen für Industriebauten werden häufig Ingenieurmethoden des Brandschutzes genutzt. Dazu zählen die Modellierung und Berechnung von Brandszenarien mittels numerischer Strömungsmechanik (computational fluid dynamics, CFD). In dieser Arbeit wurde ein auf numerischer Strömungs- und Strukturmechanik basierendes Verfahren zur brandschutztechnischen Bemessung von Bauteilen am Beispiel einer Industriehalle angewendet. Instationäre Temperaturverläufe aus der Heißgasschicht dienten dabei als Eingangswerte für die Bauteilberechnung. Aus den Ergebnissen wurde die äquivalente Branddauer berechnet, mit der die rechnerisch erforderlichen Feuerwiderstandsdauern der Bauteile bestimmt werden konnte. KW - Äquivalente Branddauer KW - Brandschutz im Industriebau KW - Feuerwiderstandsdauer KW - Numerische Strömungsmechanik KW - Numerische Strukturmechanik PY - 2016 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.201500174 SN - 1522-2640 SN - 0009-286X VL - 88 IS - 8 SP - 1157 EP - 1168 PB - Wiley CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-38179 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Knaust, Christian A1 - Krause, Ulrich A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja A1 - Schneider, U. T1 - Modeling fire scenarios in buildings with CFD N2 - In the frame of the European harmonization, new European technical standards (Eurocodes) have been developed in recent years. Classical methods, like tables and simplified analytical procedures, as well as general engineering techniques are allowed by the Eurocodes for the fire protection design. The modeling and calculation of fire scenarios with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) numerical methods is one of the general engineering methods. It is nowadays still difficult to check and evaluate the CFD results for their use as technical documents for fire safety design. Analytical engineering techniques, zone models and CFD-models have been used and compared in the present work for the prediction of the fire development in a building. To solve the conservation equation for the CFD-model, the CFD-program FDS, with the mixture fraction model, and the CFD-program FLUENT, with the one step reaction model as well as with the volumetric source term model, have been used. The combustion of polyurethane is modeled in FDS by specifying the heat release rate and the stoichiometry. For the combustion in volumetric source term model, the heat release rate and the smoke release were specified with respect to the stoichiometry. The input parameter for the one step reaction model is the pyrolysis mass flow. In the one step reaction model, the transport equations for polyurethane, H₂O, N₂, O₂, CO₂, CO and C (soot) are solved and the heat of combustion is determined from the standard formation enthalpy of all the components. In volumetric source term model, the transport equation is solved for air and smoke. FDS solves the transport equation for the mixture fraction. To model the fire development, and where no literature data was available, the required material characteristics like specific heat capacity, absorption coefficient and heat of combustion were measured. In all the investigated CFD-models the heat- and species transport equation has been solved and the absorption coefficient of soot has been considered. Furthermore, the fire development has also been investigated using zone models with the programs CFAST and MRFC. Results from analytical engineering techniques (plume calculations), which were design criteria in the past, have been used as plausibility checks for the present work. The calculation results from the investigations were compared to measurements in the same building performed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). T2 - 11th International Symposium on Fire Protection CY - Leipzig, Germany DA - 08.06.2010 KW - CFD KW - Computational fluid dynamics KW - Zone model KW - Analytical technique KW - Combustion KW - Soot model KW - FLUENT KW - FDS KW - CFAST KW - MRFC KW - Measurements PY - 2010 SN - 978-3-00-03966-2 N1 - Geburtsname von Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja: Hofmann, A. - Birth name of Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja: Hofmann, A. SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Vereinigung zur Förderung des Deutschen Brandschutzes (vfdb) CY - Münster AN - OPUS4-23159 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tschirschwitz, Rico A1 - Bernardy, Christopher A1 - Wagner, Patrick A1 - Rappsilber, Tim A1 - Liebner, Christian A1 - Hahn, S.-K. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Harmful effects of lithium-ion battery thermal runaway: scale-up tests from cell to second-life modules N2 - For a comprehensive safety assessment of stationary lithium-ion-battery applications, it is necessary to better understand the consequences of thermal runaway (TR). In this study, experimental tests comprising twelve TR experiments including four single-cell tests, two cell stack tests and six second-life module tests (2.65 kW h and 6.85 kW h) with an NMC-cathode under similar initial conditions were conducted. The temperature (direct at cells/modules and in near field), mass loss, cell/module voltage, and qualitative vent gas composition (Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and diode laser spectroscopy (DLS) for HF) were measured. The results of the tests showed that the battery TR is accompanied by severe and in some cases violent chemical reactions. In most cases, TR was not accompanied by pregassing of the modules. Jet flames up to a length of 5 m and fragment throwing to distances to more than 30 m were detected. The TR of the tested modules was accompanied by significant mass loss of up to 82%. The maximum HF concentration measured was 76 ppm, whereby the measured HF concentrations in the module tests were not necessarily higher than that in the cell stack tests. Subsequently, an explosion of the released vent gas occurred in one of the tests, resulting in the intensification of the negative consequences. According to the evaluation of the gas measurements with regard to toxicity base on the “Acute Exposure Guideline Levels” (AEGL), there is some concern with regards to CO, which may be equally as important to consider as the release of HF. KW - Large-scale tests KW - Lithium-ion battery KW - Gas emission KW - Thermal runaway KW - Consequences PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-579054 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/D3RA02881J SN - 2046-2069 VL - 13 IS - 30 SP - 20761 EP - 20779 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) CY - Cambridge, UK AN - OPUS4-57905 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hachenberger, Y. U. A1 - Rosenkranz, Daniel A1 - Kromer, C. A1 - Krause, B. C. A1 - Dreiack, N. A1 - Kriegel, F. L. A1 - Kozmenko, E. A1 - Jungnickel, H. A1 - Tentschert, J. A1 - Bierkandt, F. S. A1 - Laux, P. A1 - Panne, Ulrich A1 - Luch, A. T1 - Nanomaterial Characterization in Complex Media - Guidance and Application N2 - A broad range of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) and their dissolved ions possess a possible toxicological risk for human health and the environment. Reliable and robust measurements of dissolution effects may be influenced by the sample matrix, which challenges the analytical method of choice. In this study, CuO NPs were investigated in several dissolution experiments. Two analytical techniques (dynamic light scattering (DLS) and inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)) were used to characterize NPs (size distribution curves) time-dependently in different complex matrices (e.g., artificial lung lining fluids and cell culture media). The advantages and challenges of each analytical approach are evaluated and discussed. Additionally, a direct-injection single particle (DI sp)ICP-MS technique for assessing the size distribution curve of the dissolved particles was developed and evaluated. The DI technique provides a sensitive response even at low concentrations without any dilution of the complex sample matrix. These experiments were further enhanced with an automated data evaluation procedure to objectively distinguish between ionic and NP events. With this approach, a fast and reproducible determination of inorganic NPs and ionic backgrounds can be achieved. This study can serve as guidance when choosing the optimal analytical method for NP characterization and for the determination of the origin of an adverse effect in NP toxicity. KW - Nanon KW - Characterization KW - SpICP-MS KW - Matrix KW - Dissolution PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-572138 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13050922 VL - 13 IS - 5 SP - 1 EP - 19 AN - OPUS4-57213 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wu, Dejian A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Effect of oxygen concentration, inert gas and CH4/H2 addition on the minimum ignition energy of coal dusts N2 - MIKE III apparatus tests were conducted to investigate the minimum ignition energy (MIE) of coal dusts in air and O2/CO2 atmospheres with and without small amount of CH4/H2. The O2 mole fraction (XO2) in the gas mixtures varied from 21% to 50% with the CH4/H2 mole fraction from 0 to 2%. Experimental result showed that MIE of coal dusts significantly decreases even by three orders of magnitude in mJ with increasing XO2 and the addition of CH4/H2. Compared with CH4, H2 had a relatively strong promotion effect on the spark ignition of coal dusts. The inhibiting effect of CO2 was found to be much stronger than N2, but this inhibiting effect of CO2 could be eliminated by 9% increment of XO2. The effect on MIE of coal dusts thus followed by the order: 9% increment of XO2 > CO2 replacing N2 > 2% CH4 or H2 addition. Moreover, two empirical models were used to estimate the MIE of hybrid dust-gas mixture (HMIE), and the results showed that calculated data can well reflect the promoting effect of elevated XO2 and flammable gas addition, and the inhibiting effect of inert gas KW - Ignition energy KW - Hybrid mixture KW - Oxygen rich KW - Inerting effect KW - Empirical model PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2022.104772 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 77 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-55888 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Amano, K. O. A. A1 - Hahn, S.-K. A1 - Butt, N. A1 - Vorwerk, P. A1 - Gimadieva, E. A1 - Tschirschwitz, Rico A1 - Rappsilber, Tim A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Composition and Explosibility of Gas Emissions from Lithium-Ion Batteries Undergoing Thermal Runaway N2 - Lithium-based batteries have the potential to undergo thermal runaway (TR), during which mixtures of gases are released. The purpose of this study was to assess the explosibility of the gaseous emission from LIBs of an NMC-based cathode during thermal runaway. In the current project, a series of pouch lithium-based battery cells was exposed to abuse conditions (thermal) to study the total amount of gases released and the composition of the gas mixture. First, the battery cells were placed in a closed vessel, and the pressure and temperature rise inside the vessel were measured. In a second step, the composition of gases was analysed using a Fourier transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. We found that the amount of released gases was up to 102 ± 4 L, with a clear dependence on the battery capacity. This study showed that the concentration of gaseous emissions such as carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), ethylene (C2H4), ethane (C2H6), and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) increased with higher cell capacity. Of the five studied flammable gases, the maximum concentrations of carbon monoxide (16.85 vol%), methane (7.6 vol%), and ethylene (7.86 vol%) were identified to be within their explosible range. Applying Le Chatelier’s law, a calculated lower explosion limit (LEL) of 7% in volume fraction was obtained for the gas mixture. The upper explosion limit (UEL) of the gas mixture was also found to be 31% in volume. A filter comprising pyrobubbles was used for the removal of the studied gas components released during the thermal abuse. The investigation revealed that the pyrobubbles filter was highly effect in the removal of HCN (up to 94% removal) and CO2 (up to 100% removal). Herein, we report the dependency of the method of thermal runaway trigger on the measured maximum temperature. KW - Lithium-ion battery KW - Thermal runaway KW - Smoke gas emission KW - Gas explosion KW - Explosion limit PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-576477 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries9060300 VL - 9 IS - 6 SP - 1 EP - 19 PB - MDPI CY - Basel, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-57647 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Amano, K. A1 - Hahn, S. A1 - Tschirschwitz, Rico A1 - Rappsilber, Tim A1 - Krause, U. T1 - An Experimental Investigation of Thermal Runaway and Gas Release of NMC Lithium-Ion Pouch Batteries Depending on the State of Charge Level N2 - In this study, 19 experiments were conducted with 25 pouch cells of NMC cathode to investigate thermal runaway and the release of gases from lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Single cells, double cells, and a four-cell battery stack were forced to undergo thermal runaway inside an air-tight reactor vessel with a volume of 100 dm3 . The study involved two series of tests with two types of ignition sources. In the Series 1 tests, a heating plug was used to initiate thermal runaway in LIBs in the ranges of 80–89% and 90–100% SOC. In the Series 2 tests, a heating plate was used to trigger thermal runaway in LIBs in the ranges of 30–50%, 80–89%, and 90–100% SOC. Thermal runaway started at an onset temperature of 344 ± 5 K and 345 K for the Series 1 tests and from 393 ± 36 K to 487 ± 10 K for the Series 2 tests. Peak reaction temperatures ranged between 642 K and 1184 K, while the maximum pressures observed were between 1.2 bar and 7.28 bar. Thermal runaway induced explosion of the cells and lead to a rate of temperature increase greater than 10 K/s. The amounts of gases released from the LIBs were calculated from pressures and temperatures measured in the reactor. Then, the gas composition was analyzed using a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. The highest gaseous production was achieved at a range of 90–100% SOC and higher battery capacities 72 L, 1.8 L/Ah (Series 1, battery stack) and 103 L, 3.2 L/Ah (Series 2, 32 Ah cell)). Among the gases analyzed, the concentration of gaseous emissions such as C2H4 , CH4 , and C2H6 increased at a higher cell capacity in both series of tests. The study results revealed characteristic variations of thermal behavior with respect to the type of ignition source used. KW - Lithium-ion batteries KW - Battery KW - Pouch cell KW - NMC Cathode KW - Thermal runaways PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-548601 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries8050041 VL - 8 IS - 5 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - MDPI CY - Basel, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-54860 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zinke, R. A1 - Virothi, N. A1 - Köhler, F. A1 - Klippel, A. A1 - Schalau, Sebastian A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Experimental measurement of initial evaporation mass flows from gasoline spills and comparison with empirical models N2 - In this paper, we investigate the evaporation mass flow originating from spills of gas-oline. Large spills of gasoline may form during partial or complete roof sinkings or inthe case of perforations at various deck fittings at external floating roof tanks usedfor the storage. Additionally, spills may form in the retention area in the case of leak-ages at pipes or at the hull. The aim is to predict the order of magnitude of real-scaleevaporation mass flow. The determined evaporation mass flows will be used in arelated project as input values for subsequent dispersion modeling in the vicinity ofthe tanks. This is relevant for questions of fire and explosion protection as well as forenvironmental protection aspects in tank farms or refineries, which use externalfloating roof tanks. The measurements presented in this paper were compared withpredictions by empirical models and investigations of evaporations from small floorspills, round-bottom flask, or from Petri dishes published in the literature. The maingoal of this paper is to test the applicability of empirical models to provide reasonableevaporation mass flows as input for CFD dispersion simulations. KW - Spill evaporation PY - 2019 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-504322 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/prs.12128 VL - 39 IS - 3 SP - e12128 PB - Wiley Online Libary AN - OPUS4-50432 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Zakel, S. A1 - Schröder, Volkmar A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Gabel, D. A1 - Hirsch, W. A1 - Kleinert, J. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Meistes, J. A1 - Sachtleben, A. A1 - Schmidt, Martin T1 - Sicherheitstechnische Kenngrößen des Explosionsschutzes von hybriden Stoffgemischen - Normungsfähige Bestimmungsverfahren N2 - In diesem Verbundvorhaben werden standardisierte Messverfahren für hybride Gemische erarbeitet, die der Bestimmung sicherheitstechnischer Kenngrößen des Explosionsschutzes dienen. Unter einem hybriden Gemisch wird dabei ein mehrphasiges System aus Brenngas oder brennbarem Dampf, sowie Luft und brennbarem Staub verstanden. Die Veröffentlichung der Ergebnisse erfolgt in einem Abschlussbericht und als DIN-Spezifikation (DIN SPEC). Diese DIN SPEC versetzt Prüfinstitute und Industrie in die Lage, Explosionsgefahren beim Betrieb technischer Anlagen mit hybriden Gemischen einzuschätzen und damit Prozesse sowohl sicherer als auch effizienter zu steuern. Dieses Projekt wird im Rahmen des WIPANOProgramms (Wissens- und Technologietransfer durch Patente und Normen) vom BMWi gefördert. T2 - 14. Fachtagung Anlagen-, Arbeits- und Umweltsicherheit CY - Köthen, Germany DA - 07.11.2019 KW - Explosionsschutz KW - Sicherheitstechnische Kenngrößen KW - Hybride Gemische KW - Normung PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-89746-220-5 SP - 73 CY - Frankfurt am Main AN - OPUS4-49954 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zhao, P. A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Duan, Q. A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Wu, Dejian T1 - Experimental study on the minimum explosion concentration of anthracite dust: The roles of O2 mole fraction, inert gas and CH4 addition N2 - The explosion characteristics of anthracite coal dust with/without small amount of CH4 (1.14 vol %) were investigated by using a 20 L spherical explosion apparatus with an emphasis on the roles of oxygen mole fraction and inert gas. Two methods based on overpressure and combustion duration time were used to determine the minimum explosion concentration (MEC) or the lower explosion limit (LEL) of the pure anthracite coal dust and the hybrid coal-methane mixtures, respectively. The experiment results showed that increasing oxygen mole fraction increases the explosion risk of coal dust: with increasing oxygen mole fraction, the explosion pressure (Pex) and the rate of explosion pressure rise ((dp/dt)ex)) increase, while MEC decreases. The explosion risk of anthracite dust was found to be lower after replacing N2 with CO2, suggesting that CO2 has a better inhibition effect on explosion mainly due to its higher specific heat. However, the addition of 1.14% CH4 moderates the inhibition effect of CO2 and the promotion effect of O2 on anthracite dust explosion for some extent, increasing explosion severity and reducing the MEC of anthracite dust. For hybrid anthracite/CH4 mixture explosions, Barknecht’s curve was found to be more accurate and conservative than Chatelier’s line, but neither are sufficient from the safety considerations. The experimental results provide a certain help for the explosion prevention and suppression in carbonaceous dust industries. KW - Lower explosion limit KW - Minimun explosion concentration KW - Explosion charasteristics KW - Hybrid mixture KW - Explosion regimes PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104490 VL - 2021 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Elsevier Ltd. ET - 71 AN - OPUS4-54074 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Reyes Rodriguez, M. A1 - Kristen, A. A1 - Kadoke, D. A1 - Abbas, Z. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Ignition temperatures and flame velocities of metallic nanomaterials N2 - The production of materials with dimensions in the nanometre range has continued to increase in recent years. In order to ensure safety when handling these products, the hazard potential of such innovative materials must be known. While several studies have already investigated the effects of explosions (such as maximum explosion pressure and maximum pressure rise) of powders with primary particles in the nanometre range, little is known about the ignition temperatures and flame velocities. Therefore, the minimum ignition temperature (MIT) of metallic nano powders (aluminium, iron, copper and zinc) was determined experimentally in a so called Godbert-Greenwald (GG) oven. Furthermore, the flame velocities were determined in a vertical tube. In order to better classify the test results, the tested samples were characterised in detail and the lower explosion limits of the tested dust samples were determined. Values for the burning velocity of aluminium nano powders are higher compared to values of micrometre powd ers (from literature). While MIT of nanometre aluminium powders is within the range of micrometre samples, MIT of zinc and copper nano powders is lower than values reported in literature for respective micrometre samples. KW - Dust explosions KW - Nanomaterial KW - Flame propagation KW - Minimum ignition temperature PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104482 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 2021 IS - 71 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-54076 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Abbas, Z. A1 - Gabel, D. A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Quasi-static dispersion of dusts for the determination of lower explosion limits of hybrid mixtures N2 - Knowledge of explosion limiting concentration of explosible materials is necessary forthe design of explosion protection measures. Currently employed methods of testing MEC of a dust cloud or LEL of a hybrid mixture are based on arbitrary assumptionsand possess technical limitations that often lead to values of MEC/LEL, which are unrealistically low or poorly reproducible. This contribution presents an improved method for experimental determination of MEC of a combustible dust cloud or LEL of a flammable gas or hybrid mixture. The new setup operates under laminar conditions and allows a uniform suspension of dust particles in an open top acrylic glass tube. Dust concentration is measured with the help of infrared sensors installed a few centimeters above and below the ignition source. In order to evaluate the dependence of MEC on flow front velocity, MEC of lycopodium was determined at four flow velocities. The results show that the flow field intensity does not significantly influence the MEC of lycopodium for the flow ranges tested in this work. Moreover, LEL of hybrid mixtures of lycopodium and methane was also tested at flow velocities of 4.7 cm/s, 5.8 cm/s, 7 cm/s and 11 cm/s and compared with the values obtained from other sources. The results suggest that the requirement of high energy pyrotechnical igniter may be relinquished, provided that a truly homogeneous suspension of dust particles could be achieved. Moreover, the effect of relative amount of dust and gas, on the course of ignition and flame propagation in hybrid mixtures at their LEL, was studied by the help of high speed videos. For hybrid mixtures of carbonaceous dusts (like lycopodium) at their LEL, ignition occurs in the gas phase, however, flame propagation is only possible through a two-way interaction of dust and gas during the course of combustion. KW - Dust explosions KW - Gas explosions KW - Lower explosion limit KW - Hybrid mixtures PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104640 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 74 SP - 1 EP - 18 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-54077 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Reyes Rodriguez, M. A1 - Kristen, A. A1 - Kadoke, D. A1 - Abbas, Z. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Ignition temperatures and flame velocities of metallic nanomaterials N2 - The production of materials with dimensions in the nanometre range has continued to increase in recent years. In order to ensure safety when handling these products, the hazard potential of such innovative materials must be known. While several studies have already investigated the effects of explosions (such as maximum explosion pressure and maximum pressure rise) of powders with primary particles in the nanometre range, little is known about the ignition temperatures and flame velocities. Therefore, the minimum ignition temperature (MIT) of metallic nano powders (aluminium, iron, copper and zinc) was determined experimentally in a so called Godbert-Greenwald (GG) oven. Furthermore, the flame velocities were determined in a vertical tube. In order to better classify the test results, the tested samples were characterised in detail and the lower explosion limits of the tested dust samples were determined. Values for the burning velocity of aluminium nano powders are higher compared to values of micrometre powders (from literature). While MIT of nanometre aluminium powders is within the range of micrometre samples, MIT of zinc and copper nano powders is lower than values reported in literature for respective micrometre samples. T2 - 13th Symposium International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions (ISHPMIE) CY - Online meeting DA - 27.07.2021 KW - Dust explosions KW - Nanomaterial KW - Flame propagation KW - Minimum ignition temperature PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-540930 DO - https://doi.org/10.7795/810.20200724 SP - 591 EP - 605 PB - Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt AN - OPUS4-54093 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Gabel, D. A1 - Abbas, Z. A1 - Dufaud, O. T1 - Quasi-static dispersion of dusts for the determination of lower explosion limits of hybrid mixtures N2 - Knowledge of explosion limiting concentration of explosible materials is necessary for the design of explosion protection measures. Currently employed methods of testing MEC of a dust cloud or LEL of a hybrid mixture are based on arbitrary assumptions and possess technical limitations that often lead to values of MEC/LEL, which are unrealistically low or poorly reproducible. This contribution presents an improved method for experimental determination of MEC of a combustible dust cloud or LEL of a flammable gas or hybrid mixture. The new set-up operates under laminar conditions and allows a uniform suspension of dust particles in an open top acrylic glass tube. Dust concentration is measured with the help of infrared sensors installed a few centimeters above and below the ignition source. In order to evaluate the dependence of MEC on flow front velocity, MEC of lycopodium was determined at four flow velocities. The results show that the flow field intensity does not significantly influence the MEC of lycopodium for the flow ranges tested in this work. Moreover, LEL of hybrid mixtures of lycopodium and methane was also tested at flow velocities of 4.7 cm/s, 5.8 cm/s, 7 cm/s and 11 cm/s and compared with the values obtained from other sources. The results suggest that the requirement of high energy pyrotechnical igniter may be relinquished, provided that a truly homogeneous suspension of dust particles could be achieved. Moreover, the effect of relative amount of dust and gas, on the course of ignition and flame propagation in hybrid mixtures at their LEL, was studied by the help of high speed videos. For hybrid mixtures of carbonaceous dusts (like lycopodium) at their LEL, ignition occurs in the gas phase, however, flame propagation is only possible through a two-way interaction of dust and gas during the course of combustion. T2 - 13th Symposium International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions (ISHPMIE) CY - Online meeting DA - 27.07.2020 KW - Dust explosions KW - Gas explosions KW - Lower explosion limit KW - Hybrid mixtures PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-540955 DO - https://doi.org/10.7795/810.20200724 SP - 750 EP - 764 PB - Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt AN - OPUS4-54095 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiler, L. A1 - Pfingsten, J. A1 - Eickhoff, H. A1 - Geist, I. A1 - Hilbig, H. A1 - Hornig, U. A1 - Kalbe, Ute A1 - Krause, K. A1 - Kautetzky, D. A1 - Linnemann, V. A1 - Gschwendtner, M. A1 - Lohmann, D. A1 - Overeem-Bos, E. A1 - Schwerd, R. A1 - Vollpracht, A. T1 - Improving consistency at testing cementitious materials in the Dynamic Surface Leaching Test on the basis of the European technical specification CENTS 16637–2 – Results of a round robin test N2 - The environmental impact assessment of materials is usually based on laboratory tests, mostly in combination with models describing the longterm fate of the substances of interest in the targeted environmental compartment. Thus, laboratory tests are the fundamental link to achieve appropriate assessment conclusions which makes it essential to generate consistent results. This just as applies to the leaching of cementitious materials. In Europe, the leaching behavior of monolithic building materials is tested in the Dynamic Surface Leaching Test following the specification CEN/TS 16637–2. An interlaboratory comparison on European level regarding this technical specification showed relatively high intra- and interlaboratory variations for the tested materials (monolithic copper slag and cement stabilized coal fly ash). Therefore the German Committee for Structural Concrete (DAfStb) framed a guideline to specify additional testing conditions for cementitious materials. To assess the possible improvement by this guidelines measures, a round robin test with 11 participants from Germany and the Netherlands was conducted. This work aims to provide insight into the factors to be considered in the testing of alkaline materials, including sample preparation, and highlights crucial procedures and their manifestation in the results. All evaluated parameters showed improved results compared to the earlier round robin test. The relative standard deviations for repeatability (RSDr) and reproducibility (RSDR) of the elements calcium, barium, antimony, chromium, molybdenum and vanadium, which are the parameters evaluated in both round robin tests, were RSDr = 4%, 4%, 2%, 5%, 5%, and 5% respectively (4% in average) for this work, in comparison to the European round robin test with an average RSDr of 29% (17%, 17%, 20%, 40%, 36%, and 42%). The RSDR improved from 41% (30%, 36%, 29%, 57%, 40%, and 56%) to 14% (12%, 8%, 6%, 28%, 15%, and 12%). CO2 ingress during testing and the inaccuracy of eluate analytics for concentrations close to the determination limits were identified as the main sources of error. KW - Environmental assessment KW - Leaching KW - Heavy metals KW - Round robin test KW - Building Material PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114959 SN - 0301-4797 VL - 314 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-54647 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Benke, Alexander A1 - Cloney, C. A1 - D’Hyon, S. A1 - Dufaud, O. A1 - Dyduch, Z. A1 - Gabel, D. A1 - Geoerg, P. A1 - Heilmann, V. A1 - Jankuj, V. A1 - Jian, W. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Mynarz, M. A1 - Norman, F. A1 - Skrinsky, J. A1 - Taveau, J. A1 - Vignes, A. A1 - Zakel, S. A1 - Zhong, S. T1 - 1st international round robin test on safety characteristics of hybrid mixtures N2 - There is no applicable existing standard for the determination of safety characteristics for hybrid mixtures. While developing a new standard in a joint research project in Germany first results from parameter studies led to a standard procedure that can be adopted by laboratories that are already testing dusts in the so called 20L-sphere with as little additional effort as necessary. In fact, one of the main objectives of this research project was to keep modifications and adjustments from the generally accepted dust testing procedures as easy and minimal as possible so as to limit potential deviations from one laboratory to another. In this first round robin test on hybrid mixtures ever, with methane as gas component and a specific corn starch as dust sample, the practicality of the whole procedure, the scattering of the results and the deviation between the testing apparatuses is investigated. This paper summarizes the experimental procedure adopted and objectives of the first round-robin phase involving three of the four original German companies, plus volunteering laboratories from Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Poland and P.R. China. The results will have an impact on the new standard and may lead to robust data for later simulation purposes. KW - Hybrid mixtures KW - 20L-sphere KW - Round robin test KW - Turbulent combustion PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2022.104947 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 81 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-56516 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wu, Dejian A1 - Zhao, P. A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Krietsch, Arne A1 - Amyotte, P. A1 - Krause, U. T1 - A review on hybrid mixture explosions: Safety parameters, explosion regimes and criteria, flame characteristics N2 - The hybrid mixture of combustible dusts and flammable gases/vapours widely exist in various industries, including mining, petrochemical, metallurgical, textile and pharmaceutical. It may pose a higher explosion risk than gas/vapor or dust/mist explosions since the hybrid explosions can still be initiated even though both the gas and the dust concentration are lower than their lower explosion limit (LEL) values. Understanding the explosion threat of hybrid mixtures not only contributes to the inherent safety and sustainability of industrial process design, but promotes the efficiency of loss prevention and mitigation. To date, however, there is no test standard with reliable explosion criteria available to determine the safety parameters of all types of hybrid mixture explosions, nor the flame propagation and quenching mechanism or theoretical explanation behind these parameters. This review presents a state-of-the-art overview of the comprehensive understanding of hybrid mixture explosions mainly in an experimental study level; thereby, the main limitations and challenges to be faced are explored. The discussed main contents include the experimental measurement for the safety parameters of hybrid mixtures (i.e., explosion sensitivity and severity parameters) via typical test apparatuses, explosion regime and criterion of hybrid mixtures, the detailed flame propagation/quenching characteristics behind the explosion severities/sensitivities of hybrid mixtures. This work aims to summarize the essential basics of experimental studies, and to provide the perspectives based on the current research gaps to understand the explosion hazards of hybrid mixtures in-depth. KW - Hybrid mixtures KW - Explosion protection KW - Safety characteristics PY - 2023 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2022.104969 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 82 SP - 1 EP - 54 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-56856 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zinke, R. A1 - Wothe, K. A1 - Dugarev, D. A1 - Götze, O. A1 - Köhler, F. A1 - Schalau, Sebastian A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Uncertainty consideration in CFD-models via response surface modeling: Application on realistic dense and light gas dispersion simulations N2 - Major accidents in the process industry often lead to the release of light or dense gases, which can mean a thread to employees, local residents or to the environment. Possible scenarios are therefore analyzed and evaluated in advance for approval issues. There is a trend, where simple empirical models are being replaced with more complex numerical models. Gaussian dispersion models or models based on dimensional analysis approaches are for example, increasingly replaced by CFD simulations. The main reason for this is the potentially higher accuracy. However, usually scenarios using sharp parameter values are calculated, since comprehensive consideration of parameter distributions via Monte Carlo or Latin Hypercube Sampling fails due to the numerical effort. This includes the risk that the influence of uncertainties on the simulation results is not taken into account. Response surface methods offer an alternative, with which the CFD problem can be mapped onto an algebraic surrogate model. If this is sufficiently precise, parameter sampling can also be carried out with the surrogate as well, as shown in some publications. Previous investigations only demonstrated the basic principle using trivial dispersion models. In this paper two realistic CFD simulations from the plant safety area are considered: VOC emissions from a storage tank and near-ground dense gas emissions. The entire procedure of response surface determination and parameter studies was automated and parallelized for high-performance-computing, and is carried out on the underlying CFD grids. For the CFD simulations as well as for all visualizations, the commercial software ANSYS CFX and the open source software OpenFOAM were used. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the method using industry-relevant applications as well as to show how this can be used in practical engineering applications. The quality of surrogate modeling, the numerical effort and advantages that can result from the procedure are discussed as well as advantages which may result from taking parameter uncertainties into account in safety studies. KW - CFD KW - Accidental release KW - Response surface methods KW - Air dispersion modeling PY - 2022 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104710 SN - 0950-4230 VL - 75 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-56887 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spitzer, Stefan A1 - Askar, Enis A1 - Benke, Alexander A1 - Janovsky, B. A1 - Krause, U. A1 - Krietsch, Arne T1 - Influence of pre-ignition pressure rise on safety characteristics of dusts and hybrid mixtures N2 - For the determination of the safety characteristics of dusts it is necessary to disperse the dust in the oxidating atmosphere (usually air). In the standard procedures for dusts this is realized by a partially evacuated explosion vessel (20L-sphere) in which the dust gets injected from a dust chamber pressurized with air. Shortly after that injection (60 ms) the dust cloud gets ignited under turbulent conditions, that are otherwise seen as almost ambient with 20 ◦C and about 1 bar (abs). While there has been a lot of research about the influence of the ignition delay time and the level of turbulence in the recent years little attention was paid to the pre–ignition pressure rise and the allowed variations in the standards. In the following work we showed that the allowed ranges for the pressures in the different dust standards influence the safety characteristics of dust alone severely. Even though hybrid mixtures are an emerging risk problem in an interconnected industry there is no standard for the determination of their safety characteristics. In this work it is shown that especially for the preparation of hybrid mixtures of flammable dust and gas the pressures after injection of the dust and the mixing procedure have a large influence on the composition of the tested mixtures and therefore on the safety characteristics. Considering both effects, wrong concentration of gas and wrong initial pressure, the discrepancy of safety characteristics from different facilities will be too big to applicable. The methods to overcome these weaknesses are also presented. KW - Hybrid mixtures KW - 20L-sphere KW - Pre-ignition pressure rise KW - Post-injection pressure drop KW - Safety characteristics KW - Mixing procedure PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-537358 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.122495 VL - 311 SP - 122495 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Niederlande AN - OPUS4-53735 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Amano, K.O.A. A1 - Hahn, S.-K. A1 - Tschirschwitz, Rico A1 - Rappsilber, Tim A1 - Krause, U. T1 - Experimental Investigation on Explosion Pressure Characteristics of Lithium-based (NMC) Pouch Batteries during Thermal Runaway N2 - Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are prone to spontaneous and subsequent fire or explosion resulting from thermal runaway. The vented gases are not only toxic and flammable, their emission can also raise the surrounding pressure rapidly. In this study, characteristic variations of explosion pressure rise, rate of explosion pressure rise and 𝐾(sT)-value have been evaluated. The characteristic 𝐾(𝑠𝑇)-values were determined to evaluate the explosive behavior of LIBs during thermal runaway. The estimated values were compared to that of other explosive substances. T2 - Batterieforum Deutschland 2021 CY - Online meeting DA - 20.01.2021 KW - Pressure KW - Lithium KW - Thermal Runaway KW - Battery KW - Pouch PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-52033 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schalau, Sebastian A1 - Habib, Abdel Karim A1 - Krause, U. T1 - CFD-Simulation von Schwergasausbreitungen N2 - Um die Ausbreitung von Schwergaswolken infolge störfallbedingter Freisetzungen in bebautem Gelände besser vorhersagen zu können, wird eine praxisorientierte Methode zur numerischen Simulation von Schwergasausbreitungen vorgestellt. T2 - 15. BAM-PTB-Kolloquium zur chemischen und physikalischen Sicherheitstechnik CY - Brunswick, Germany DA - 21.05.2019 KW - Explosionsschutz KW - CFD KW - Schwergas KW - Gasausbreitung PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.7795/210.20190521G SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) AN - OPUS4-48940 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beutel, R. A1 - Reinhardt, H.-W. A1 - Grosse, C.U. A1 - Glaubitt, A. A1 - Krause, Martin A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Algernon, Daniel A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert A1 - Schickert, M. T1 - Comparative performance tests and validation of NDT methods for concrete testing N2 - Validation of non-destructive testing methods is necessary to create a common basis where different systems can be compared and their applications and limitations be identified. This can be achieved through comparing the measurements taken by several systems used for a common diagnostic purpose under practical but controlled testing conditions. Well-designed small and large laboratory or field specimens promise such conditions. The special concrete specimen (LCS) at BAM was constructed for validation purposes, in particular, to be used for evaluating the performance of echo methods. The thickness of the specimen is varying and it contains carefully designed built-in faults, such as voids, honeycombs and tendon ducts with various degrees of grouting defects. Since the geometry and condition of the defects are known, it can be used to compare the performance of radar, ultrasonic, impact-echo. The research was conducted within the Research group FOR384, sponsored by the German Research Society DFG. KW - Performance demonstration KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Concrete KW - Radar KW - Ultrasound KW - Impact-echo PY - 2008 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-008-0037-1 SN - 0195-9298 SN - 1573-4862 VL - 27 IS - 1-3 SP - 59 EP - 65 PB - Plenum Press CY - New York, NY AN - OPUS4-17925 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -