Author(s)

Amany F. Abd El-Aal¹, Adel Zaghloul², Magy M. Kandil^3*

¹National Radiation Monitoring Network, Egyptian Nuclear & Radiological Regulatory Authority, Cairo, Egypt.
²Electronic and Communication Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University (Currently at Delta University), Gamasa, Egypt.
³Nuclear Law and Licenses Department, Egyptian Nuclear& Radiological Regulatory Authority, Cairo, Egypt.

Simulation of egress is vital for minimizing losses during fire disasters, however accurate simulations are scarce and real-life data is hard to come by. In this paper, a Proposed Wireless Fire Evacuation Model (PWFEM) is proposed to simulate fire evacuation process in a short time to minimize evacuee’s exposure to the harmful radiation and fire hazards. The PWFEM simulation realistic by supposing fire scenario at cabined contains electrical cables inside a standard Main Control Room (MCR) in a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) building. In addition, a new Hybrid Safest Shortest Exit (HSSE) is developed which consists of three stages: safest route based on rules-based technique, evacuees location based on the DV-hop technique [1] and shortest route that depends on Dijkstra technique. The PWFEM Simulations are appreciated to yield a realistic fire scenario by using a telecommunications TCP/IP network in form of server and client sides that help in transfer data inside internal networks in the NPP building. On the server-side, suppose that Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (CFAST) fire modeling is applied to simulate the fire scenario in MCR through CFAST model to generate fire products as output data in excel sheets and sends them to the client-side. The client-side then runs HSSE to produce the tree map for safest and shortest routes to help the evacuee for safe exit from his/her location. HSSE can be implemented on evacuee’s watches. From the results, it is concluded that PWFEM can simulate the fire scenario inside MCR, furthermore it is validated that HSEE can be used as an efficient emergency fire evacuation technique that can produce safest and shortest exit route for evacuee in any location inside NPP in very small time. In addition, PWFEM can be used for simulating fire evacuation inside any high-risk buildings and can appreciate yielding any realistic fire scenario with many types of fire sources in different places inside buildings.

Fire Safety, Fire Evacuation Model, NPP Evacuation, Localization Technique, CFAST Model, DV-Hop Technique, Dijkstra Algorithm

El-Aal, A. , Zaghloul, A. and Kandil, M. (2021) Simulation Emergency Fire Evacuation Model for Nuclear Power Plant. Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, 9, 30-52. doi: 10.4236/jpee.2021.94003.