Fire Safety Equipment

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	030-0925/04
Abbreviation	PBZ
Course title	Fire Safety Equipment
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Fire Protection
Course coordinator	prof. Dr. Ing. Aleš Dudáček

Subject syllabus

Theory of early fire detection
Possibilities of determining the time of fire detection for various detectors
Influence of selected types of FSE on the course of fire
Monitoring systems for the detection of flammable gases and vapors
Interconnections of different types of FSE
Incorporation of FSE into fire safety of buildings and technologies

Literature

Arthur E Cote; John Raymond Hall; Pamela A Powell; Casey C Grant; Robert E Solomon: Fire Protection Handbook. National Fire Protection Association. Quincy, Mass. 2008.
Yu Chunyu; Fang Jun; Wang Jinjun; Zhang Yongming: Video Fire Smoke Detection Using Motion and Color Features. In: Fire Technology, July 2010, Volume 46, Issue 3, pp 651-663.
Borges, P.V.K.: A Probabilistic Approach for Vision-Based Fire Detection in Videos. In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 20 , Issue: 5, 2010.
Maciocia, Sandro: Fire Detection Systems. In: The Handbook of Tunnel Fire Safety. American Society of Civil Engineers 2005.
Marty Ahrens: Smoke Alarms in U.S. Home Fires. National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA September 2011.

Advised literature

It is entered individually in accordance with the assignment of the written work.

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