TY - GEN
T1 - A study on fire risks to firefighters in the building with photovoltaic system
AU - Lee, Shin Ku
AU - Wu, Chun Mu
AU - Hung, Kuo Chan
N1 - Funding Information:
The author is grateful to the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China (Taiwan, R.O.C.) for their support of this research under grant MOST 106-3113-E-006 -006 -CC2
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/21
Y1 - 2017/7/21
N2 - Among all the available renewable energy sources, solar energy is the most abundant and is an inexhaustible source of clean energy. Moreover, photovoltaic (PV) module technology has been widely used in modern industry to directly convert solar energy into electricity to meet people's demands. The photovoltaic (PV) industry and solar cell panel installation capacity are rapidly expanding in Taiwan. In practice, many factors can cause fire hazards with PV systems, and this danger increases as such systems scale up, with high voltages of 600 to 1000 V posing a greater risk than less powerful systems. However, a limited body of knowledge and insufficient data exists for the fire service community to fully understand the risks of PV system catching fire to the extent that standard operational procedures have been developed in Taiwan. The object of this study is to document firefighter vulnerability to electrical and casualty hazards when mitigating a fire in a building involving photovoltaic system. The results of the survey would provide a technical basis for the fire service to examine their equipment, tactics, standard operating procedures and training content.
AB - Among all the available renewable energy sources, solar energy is the most abundant and is an inexhaustible source of clean energy. Moreover, photovoltaic (PV) module technology has been widely used in modern industry to directly convert solar energy into electricity to meet people's demands. The photovoltaic (PV) industry and solar cell panel installation capacity are rapidly expanding in Taiwan. In practice, many factors can cause fire hazards with PV systems, and this danger increases as such systems scale up, with high voltages of 600 to 1000 V posing a greater risk than less powerful systems. However, a limited body of knowledge and insufficient data exists for the fire service community to fully understand the risks of PV system catching fire to the extent that standard operational procedures have been developed in Taiwan. The object of this study is to document firefighter vulnerability to electrical and casualty hazards when mitigating a fire in a building involving photovoltaic system. The results of the survey would provide a technical basis for the fire service to examine their equipment, tactics, standard operating procedures and training content.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICASI.2017.7988500
DO - 10.1109/ICASI.2017.7988500
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85028547696
T3 - Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation: Applied System Innovation for Modern Technology, ICASI 2017
SP - 1174
EP - 1177
BT - Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation
A2 - Meen, Teen-Hang
A2 - Lam, Artde Donald Kin-Tak
A2 - Prior, Stephen D.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation, ICASI 2017
Y2 - 13 May 2017 through 17 May 2017
ER -
