Programme 2025

Registration

Opening Ceremony

Keynote Session

Christina F. Francis
Tesla, Inc. 

EV Guidelines

Operational guide for Rescue operation involving lithium-ion batteries
Marcus Vilhelmsson
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), Sweden

Safety guidelines for battery swap station
Nils Rosmuller, Ben Riemersma and Tom Hessels
Netherlands Institute for Public Safety, The Netherlands

Coffee Break

EV Fires

Can we protect lives by pre-empting electric vehicle battery faults with global data?
Emma Sutcliffe, Dan Fish
EV FireSafe, Australia

Experimental investigation of fires with multiple Electric Vehicle (BEV) batteries in the storage situation
Justus FRENZ1, Jochen ZEHFUß¹, Björn MAIWORM², Kristina Steinbauer², Christian Knaust^3
1TU Braunschweig – iBMB, Germany
²Landeshauptstadt München - Branddirektion, Germany
³Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und Prüfung (BAM), Germany

E-bike: include the micro-mobility in fire safety engineering. Case study of bike storage fire.
Camille Waharte, Talal Fateh
Efectis UK/Ireland, United Kingdom

Lunch

Safety of Alternative Fuels

Solid State Batteries: are current regulations adapted?
Arnaud Bordes, Amandine Lecocq, Caroline Gaya, Jérôme Lesage, Clément Rabette, Thierry Delbaere and Guy Marlair
The French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks (Ineris), France

Electric shock from a burning or crashed vehicle – a comprehensive risk assessment
Vesa Linja-aho
Independent Electrical Safety Professional, Finland

Hydrogen Storage System for Vehicles
S. Sengupta¹, H. Singh¹, S. Ilinzeer², K. Kohl², V. Gettwert², S. Knapp², A. Koleczko², A. Keßler², and C.-C. Höhne^2
1LINAMAR, Canada
²Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, Germany

Coffee Break

EV Fire Suppression

Analysis of EV Firefighting Tactics and the Impacts on Stranded Energy: Full-scale Test Results
Victoria Hutchison Lutz
Fire Protection Research Foundation, USA

Performance Evaluation of Fire Suppression Systems for Electric Vehicles through Full-Scale Fire Experiments
Jong-jin Jeong¹, Kye-won Park¹, Sung-ho Hong¹, Jae-man Park^2
1Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea, Republic of Korea
²Ankug Engineering, Republic of Korea

Safety evaluation of extinguishing water after a lithium battery fire in terms of ecotoxicity and physicochemical parameters
Lucie Pokorná¹, Marek Martinec¹, Jan Karl², Hana Kujalová¹, Jan Bindzar¹, Lucia Tajnaiová¹, Klára Anna Mocová¹, Jana Kafroňová¹, Radek Vurm¹, Jakub Pilař¹, Kryštof Řehák¹, Barbora Štěpánová³, Petra Najmanová³, Romana Friedrichová², Milan Růžička^2
1University of chemistry and technology in Prague, Czech Republic
²Ministry of the Interior - General Directorate of the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, ³Dekonta a.s., Czech Republic

Poster Session

Cocktail Reception

Welcome day 2

Keynote Session

Electric vehicle fire safety and the impact on parking regulations
Carlo Mol
VITO/EnergyVille

Car Park Fires

Analysis in relation to English and French regulations of London Luton Airport’s Terminal 2 parking lot fire on Tuesday October 10, 2023
Jérémie GIRARD, Olivier LECOQ-JAMMES, Pascal VAN HULLE, Xavier DUPONCHEL, Daniel JOYEUX, Virginie DREAN
Efectis France, France

Risk mitigation toolbox for fire safety of modern carparks
Sigurjon Ingolfsson¹, Peter Dingemans², Nigel Williams², Tom Vandeweghe², Tom Antonissen^2
1Arup
²EPA

Influence of car park ceiling height on water-based suppression system performance in vehicle fires
Bogdan Racięga¹, Jakub Bielawski², Wojciech Węgrzyński^2
1Baltic Fire Laboratory, Poland
²Building Research Institute, Poland

Coffee Break

Fire Development

Application of design fire based on statistical analysis to predict the severity of electric and internal combustion engine vehicle fires
Mohd Zahirasri Mohd Tohir^1,2, César Martín-Gómez^1
1Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
²Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Vehicle Fires in a WUI-Type Scenario
Giovanni Di Cristina, Erik Johnsson, Matthew Bundy, Selvarajah Ramesh, Anthony Chaklis, Marco Fernandez, and Anthony Hamins
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Flammability Test Procedure Development for Motor Vehicle Interior Materials
Jason Huczek, Marc Janssens
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), USA

Lunch

Fire Incidents

The Use of Fire Testing in the Investigation and Conviction of a Serial Arsonist
Brian Grove, Jonathan Smith
Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), USA

Documented vehicle fires in marine vehicle carriers during 2013 to 2023
Magnus Arvidson, Anna Karlsson
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden

Fire safety in the car recycling chain
Tom Hessels, Margrethe Kobes, Nils Rosmuller
Nederlands Instituut Publieke Veiligheid, The Netherlands

Concluding Remarks

Coffee break

Technical Visit