Fire/Fast Incident Response Equipment for the DescRiptionOf Noxious particle Emissions (Q4295104)
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Project Q4295104 in France, United Kingdom
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Fire/Fast Incident Response Equipment for the DescRiptionOf Noxious particle Emissions |
Project Q4295104 in France, United Kingdom |
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1,162,369.16 Euro
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1,684,592.99 Euro
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69.0 percent
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29 September 2020
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30 June 2023
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Institut National des Science Appliquées (INSA) de Rouen
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49°26'35.05"N, 1°6'11.52"E
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50°56'4.13"N, 1°23'47.04"W
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51°19'37.45"N, 0°32'24.22"W
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49°27'38.70"N, 1°4'13.73"E
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51°28'49.58"N, 0°26'25.19"W
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49°23'13.09"N, 1°3'55.26"E
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The FIREDRONE project will increase the safety, speed and accuracy of firefighters’ response to industrial fires and wildfires by developing a compact airborne robotic system for live monitoring dangerous emissions in smoke, designing its operational procedures and providing demonstrations to fire emergency services. It will analyse particles in fire smoke 90% faster and 80% cheaper than current equivalent solutions while providing more accurate data. Decision makers in disaster management situations require a rapid, precise and safe way to measure and characterise the solid particles in the smoke, also known as soot or black carbon – BC, that are dangerous for the health of firefighters and the general population. Without this information, they are incapable of balancing the economic impact of restrictive measures (such as evacuation) against the health risk to the population of the affected area, or to accurately assess the risk to firefighters. Currently there is no tool available to perform these measures that is sufficiently reactive, safe and inexpensive to be routinely used during fire response operations. The FIREDRONE project will solve this problem through a combination of miniaturized optical measurement systems installed on a bespoke unmanned aircraft (drone). The system designers will work in close cooperation with end-users (the fire brigades and training centres) and experts in drone operations design and remote flight training of emergency services. FIREDRONE will attain this by developing further and combining low to middle TRL technologies (up to TRL4) and by developing and testing a device up to TRL7, thus ready for a potential commercialization afterwards. Thanks to the early involvement of emergency services and expert drone operators, this project will accelerate the uptake of aerial robotics and remote sensing technologies in the fire management sector across the Interreg Channel area and more widely across France and the UK. The need and demand for such a device is imminent. 289 Seveso rated sites exist in the French part of the Channel-Manche region and 150 in the UK part (named COMAH – Control of Major Accident Hazard), making up respectively 22% and 17% of the SEVESO rated industrial sites in France and the UK, such as the Lubrizol plant that burnt in Sep. 2019 in Rouen. Every year ca 370 industrial fires happen in the Channel area, leading to costs of almost 10M€ for public health and increasing firefighter mortality by ca. 20%. Interested stakeholders are various: Fire services, local authorities, environmental agencies, industries aiming to reduce their air pollution, audit engineering offices as well as research groups. (English)
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