Fire Engineering detailed syllabus for Safety & Fire Engineering (SFE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the SFE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit SFE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to SFE Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of fire engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF FIRE 9
Fire properties of solid. liquid and gases – fire spread – toxicity of products of combustion – theory of combustion and explosion – vapour clouds – flash fire – jet fires – pool fires – unconfined vapour cloud explosion. shock waves – auto-ignition – boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion – case studies – Flixborough. Mexico disaster. Pasedena Texas. Piper Alpha. Peterborough and Bombay Victoria dock ship explosions.
Unit II
EVACUATION SYSTEM AND CONTROL 9
Process of emergency evacuation – special features of personnel movement. Parameter characteristics of the movement of people-practical methods of designing evacuation passages and exists. Evacuation exits and routes – stages of evacuation; Exit Requirements- Planning of evacuation routes and exits – Seating arrangement – Passages and corridors; Smoke control during building design.
Unit III
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Unit IV
FIRE EXITS MANAGEMENT 9
General exit requirements as per NBC; Internal staircases; Pressurisation of stair staircases; horizontal exits; fire tower; ramps; fire lifts; external fire escape ladders; Planning of location and calculation of capacity, number and width of exit as per NBC for different occupancy classification.
Unit V
FIRE PROTECTINGEQUIPMENTS AND SYSTEMS 9
Selection and distribution of portable extinguishers (for class A and B fires) and other fire rotectionequipments and systems for different occupancy classification as per NBC; Planning of fixed fire fighting installation for different occupancy classification- sprinkler system; total flooding system; CO2 system; foam system; Fire training and education- Arson – Fire safety audits – Risk assessment.
Course Outcomes:
Students able to:
- Understand the basic theory of fire chemistry, the development of fire and its characteristics, and about different types of fire.
- Describe and determine the effect of the product of combustion and their characteristics.
- Develop and analyse operation and maintenance requirements of equipment, vehicles and accessories used in fire services.
- Understand the fundamentals of fire hydraulics and fire ground operations.
- Suppression and mitigation and fire safety engineering which focuses on human behavior and maintaining a tenable environment for evacuation from a fire.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Marchant E.W, A Complete Guide to Fire and Building.
- BIS, “NBC Part 4- Fire and Life safety”, Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi, 2005.
- Adam and Charles Black, Fire safety in Buildings.
- Fire Safety Engineering: A Reference Guide. Front Cover. R. Chitty, Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell. BRE Bookshop, 2003 – Technology & Engineering.
- Fire Safety Engineering A Reference Guide. R. Chitty, Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell, Fire Research Station.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem, visit SFE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Safety & Fire Engineering results, visit Anna University SFE all semester results direct link.