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2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Fire and Explosion
Authors : Håkan Frantzich, Göran Holmstedt
Published in: Risks in Technological Systems
Publisher: Springer London
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This chapter deals with the consequences and risks associated with fires and explosions. The objective is to give a brief insight into the development of a fire scenario, the methodology of risk analysis for fire safety engineering and the calculation of the consequences of a fire or explosion. At the end of this chapter some precautionary activities relating to fires and explosions are presented. The content is mainly focused on the protection of people in a building. There are, however, some other aspects that must be taken into consideration. For example, the property damage that affects a company or the loss of production capacity that emerges as a result of a fire. Such analyses are rather extensive and the risk analysis is often greatly dependent on the company and its particular circumstances.