Conditions that enhance the spread of forest fires and the emission of gaseous pollutants to atmosphere

• Grant number: 13/21231-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2014
• End date: April 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Transport Phenomena
• Principal Investigator: João Andrade de Carvalho Junior
• Grantee: Simone Simões Amaral
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FEG). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Guaratinguetá. Guaratinguetá , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 08/04490-4 - Combustion of tropical forest biomass, AP.TEM

Abstract

Despite the new technologies of management and fire fighting, these still occur in large scales and are difficult to be contained, causing damage to the environment and society. The study of spread of fire in planted and native forests is very useful in the prevention of fires. As burning experiments in forests are almost prohibitive, many studies regarding the behavior of fire are conducted on laboratory scale. However, during bibliographical research, it was found that in laboratory tests are not done simultaneous analysis of key variables that influence the spread of fire in vegetable fuels, in actual conditions of forest burning. Thus, we propose to analyze the spread of fire in planted forest of Pinus sp. and native forest of Amazon, under controlled conditions of laboratory. For that will be analyzed simultaneously the three main factors that affect the spread of forest fires (fuel, weather and topography of the terrain), its influence and potential interactions, which enhance the spread of fire. Gaseous pollutants will be analyzed (CO2, CO, NOx e CH4) issued throughout each experiment in terms of emission factor. The planning, execution and analysis of the results will be from the methodology "Design of Experiments".

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CARVALHO, JR., J. A.; AMARAL, S. S.; COSTA, M. A. M.; SOARES NETO, T. G.; VERAS, C. A. G.; COSTA, F. S.; VAN LEEUWEN, T. T.; KRIEGER FILHO, G. C.; TOURIGNY, E.; FORTI, M. C.; et al. CO2 and CO emission rates from three forest fire controlled experiments in Western Amazonia. Atmospheric Environment, v. 135, p. 73-83, JUN 2016. (08/04490-4, 13/21231-0)

AMARAL, SIMONE SIMOES; DE CARVALHO, JR., JOAO ANDRADE; MARTINS COSTA, MARIA ANGELICA; PINHEIRO, CLEVERSON. An Overview of Particulate Matter Measurement Instruments. ATMOSPHERE, v. 6, n. 9, p. 1327-1345, SEP 2015. (08/04490-4, 13/21231-0)

AMARAL, SIMONE SIMOES; DE CARVALHO, JR., JOAO ANDRADE; MARTINS COSTA, MARIA ANGELICA; PINHEIRO, CLEVERSON. Particulate Matter Emission Factors for Biomass Combustion. ATMOSPHERE, v. 7, n. 11, NOV 2016. (08/04490-4, 13/21231-0)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

AMARAL, Simone Simões. Conditions that enhance the spread of forest fires and the gases emissions to atmosphere. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Engenharia. Guaratinguetá Guaratinguetá.