Fire Safety of the New Emerging Energy

Dear Colleagues,

Facing the global challenge of energy crisis and environmental pollution, the Paris Agreement was humanity was ratified by the many countries in 2016. In order to meet the objective of the Paris Agreement, the applications of new emerging energy sources, such as hydrogen, solar, wind, battery, and geothermal energy, etc., are becoming popular, which are beneficial for decreasing carbon emissions. The repeated fire accidents have raised increasing concerns about their safety during storage, transportation, and utilization, which is a major obstacle hindering the application of new emerging energies. Fire safety of the new emerging energies has drawn the attention of the academic and industrial communities. Many efforts have been devoted to the fire dynamics of the new emerging energy and also fire prevention strategies. However, further efforts are still required to better understand the fire safety of new emerging energies and also effective prevention strategies.

This Special Issue aims to present the recent state-of-art in the field of fire safety of new emerging energies. Original contributions are welcome, and the potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Consequence analysis of hydrogen fire safety, including leakage diffusion, spontaneous combustion, jet fire, fire and explosion propagation, etc.
• Lithium-ion thermal safety, including thermal stability of the battery materials, thermal runaway mechanism and consequent fire and explosions, as well as the thermal management.
• Photovoltaic fire safety, such as solar panel thermal stability, power station fire, etc.
• Wind turbine fire safety, such as the thermal stability of the wind turbine blades, wind farm fires, wind turbine fire accident statistics and investigations.
• Early and accurate fire detection and alarm technique for the new emerging energies.
• Effective mitigation and prevention strategies for new emerging energy fires.
• Fire risk analysis and assessment of new emerging energies.
• Other new emerging energy fire safety, such as biomass, geothermal energy, etc.

Prof. Dr. Depeng Kong
Dr. Qiangling Duan
Guest Editors

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• lithium-ion battery
• thermal runaway
• hydrogen leakage
• hydrogen jet fire
• wind turbine fire
• photovoltaic fire
• fire detection and early warning
• fire prevention