IFAB was con­tract­ed to car­ry out fire tests for the pro­tec­tion of a test cells with Li-ion-bat­ter­ies for elec­tric vehi­cles to approve a high-pres­sure water mist sys­tem.

IFAB car­ried out fire tests to approve an aerosol extin­guish­ing sys­tem in cab­i­nets of a rail car accord­ing to EN 50553.

IFAB car­ried out fire tests for the pro­tec­tion of ener­gy stor­age con­tain­ers with Li-ion-bat­ter­ies

IFAB was tasked to devel­op a fire safe­ty con­cept for the con­ver­sion of a build­ing and for a new build­ing to dis­man­tle, process and recy­cle Li-Ion Bat­ter­ies (Nick­el­hütte Aue).

IFAB has devel­oped a fire safe­ty con­cept for a buil­dung with a rec­ti­fi­er plant of the pub­lic trans­port com­pa­ny of Berlin (BVG) and start­ed to con­duct eval­u­a­tion sim­u­la­tion for the BVG.

IFAB was con­tract­ed for the fire safe­ty con­cept and smoke sim­u­la­tions (CFD) for Berlin Alexan­der­platz (BVG). The unique under­ground sta­tion is over 100 years old and one of the most com­plex pub­lic trans­porta­tion hubs in Berlin. The work was car­ried out 2021-2022.

IFAB com­plet­ed review­ing a fire safe­ty plant con­cept for a nuclear pow­er plant.

IFAB car­ried out fire tests in dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions of of bicy­cles with Li-ion bat­ter­ies to deter­mine a fire design curve (heat release rate, HHR), fire spread and influ­ence of a water mist sys­tem

The mem­bers of the Inter­na­tion­al Water Mist Asso­ci­a­tion (IWMA) have dis­cussed and decid­ed: The 21st Inter­na­tion­al Water Mist Con­fer­ence will take place in Madrid, Spain. The con­fer­ence dates will be 9th and 10th Novem­ber 2022. The con­fer­ence venue will be the Elba Madrid Alcalá Hotel.
On 1st July, the con­fer­ence pro­gramme will be pub­lished. Again, IWMA expect speak­ers from around the globe. The 1st con­fer­ence day will be appli­ca­tions day and day two will main­ly be ded­i­cat­ed to research and sci­ences.
A spe­cial high­light will be the bestow­al of the IWMA Young Tal­ent Award which, in 2022, will go to the author of the best mas­ter the­sis. The win­ner will receive a prize mon­ey of 1,000 €, will be invit­ed to the con­fer­ence and will be grant­ed a speak­er slot to present his or her the­sis.
An exhi­bi­tion will run along­side the con­fer­ence. Twelve com­pa­nies have booked their table­tops already.
The con­fer­ence web­page is live and tick­ets can be bought. Until 15th Sep­tem­ber, del­e­gates can prof­it from the ear­ly bird peri­od.

The con­fer­ence web­page can be found here .

IFAB has again been asked by Goethe-Schule in Wet­zlar to car­ry out hot smoke tests to val­i­date the flaw­less func­tion­al­i­ty of the installed fire detec­tion sys­tem in the new school-build­ing. The tests became nec­es­sary because some of the smoke detec­tors installed in the ceil­ing were par­tial­ly cov­ered by new­ly sus­pend­ed ceil­ings.

The Inter­na­tion­al Water Mist Asso­ci­a­tion (IWMA) has announced that IWMC 2021 (the 20th Inter­na­tion­al Water Mist Con­fer­ence 2021) will take place on 27th and 28th Octo­ber 2021. The venue will be War­saw, Poland, the con­fer­ence will be held in the Regent War­saw Hotel. As in the pre­vi­ous years, IFAB will be an hon­orary spon­sor of the event.

The con­fer­ence web­page can be found here and the pro­gram has been pub­lished here.

Day one will as always be “Appli­ca­tions Day” and can be booked sep­a­rate­ly. Day two will most­ly be ded­i­cat­ed to sci­ences and research. An exhi­bi­tion will run along­side the event. The water mist con­fer­ence is an annu­al event and the only event sole­ly ded­i­cat­ed to the water mist tech­nol­o­gy.

IFAB was con­tract­ed by the Berlin pub­lic trans­port sys­tem (BVG) to cre­ate a design fire curve for the metro vehi­cle types H and HK (large and small pro­file). This devel­oped curve is used as a design fire curve for the smoke and evac­u­a­tion sim­u­la­tions in all BVG sta­tions in the future. The design fire curve is based on 4 dif­fer­ent pos­si­ble sce­nar­ios that all were sim­u­lat­ed. The results of the most suit­able sce­nario were cho­sen in order to cre­ate the final design curve.

IFAB car­ried out a train­ing for a client in Switzer­land with the fol­low­ing top­ic: NFPA 130:2020 (Stan­dard for Fixed Guide­way Tran­sit and Pas­sen­ger Rail Sys­tems).

IFAB was re-accred­it­ed accord­ing to the revised ISO/IEC 17025:2018-03 for the proof of the effec­tive­ness of water-based fire fight­ing sys­tems by fire tests for rolling stock (rail vehi­cles), indus­tri­al plants, pub­lic places, store rooms, engine and machin­ery spaces, tun­nel- and trans­port infra­struc­ture sys­tems as well as high-volt­age bat­ter­ies and the exper­i­men­tal deter­mi­na­tion of design fire sce­nar­ios by full scale fire tests: https://www.dakks.de/files/data/as/pdf/D-PL-19994-01-00e.pdf.

In a new build­ing of the Goethe-Schule in Wet­zlar IFAB has car­ried out hot smoke tests to val­i­date the flaw­less func­tion­al­i­ty of the installed fire detec­tion sys­tem.  The tests became nec­es­sary because some of the smoke detec­tors installed in the ceil­ing were par­tial­ly cov­ered by new­ly sus­pend­ed ceil­ings.

IFAB has car­ried out for and togeth­er with N2 Glob­al a series of fire tests using var­i­ous N2 Glob­al fire extin­guish­ing sys­tems. Nitro­gen was used as the extin­guish­ing agent. The test sce­nar­ios were devel­oped and imple­ment­ed in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with N2 Glob­al.

IFAB has car­ried out fire tests for one of the lead­ing water mist man­u­fac­tur­ers accord­ing to ARGE part II:2018 and UNI 11565:2016. High pres­sure water mist sys­tems were test­ed in order to approve its effi­cien­cy in pas­sen­ger areas for rolling stock. IFAB is specif­i­cal­ly accred­it­ed for the appli­ca­tion of such guide­lines in fire tests.

IFAB was autho­rised by the BVG to gen­er­ate fire safe­ty con­cepts of var­i­ous under­ground sta­tions in Berlin. This also includes a con­duc­tion of exten­sive CFD sim­u­la­tions to study the effi­cien­cy of smoke extract­ing and evac­u­a­tion con­di­tions.