Smoke exposure levels prediction following laboratory combustion of Pinus koraiensis plantation surface fuel.

High concentrations of harmful gases released from forest fire will pose a short-term hazard to fire-fighters' cardiopulmonary function, even threaten their lives. In this study, laboratory experiments were conducted to examine the relationship between harmful gases concentrations and burning environment and fuel characteristics. In the experiments, fuel beds were created with controlled moisture contents and fuel loads; a wind tunnel device was used to conduct 144 trials, each with a specific wind speed.

Effect of fire spread, flame characteristic, fire intensity on particulate matter 2.5 released from surface fuel combustion of Pinus koraiensis plantation- A laboratory simulation study.

PM is one of major pollutants emitted from forest fires. High PM concentration not only affects short-term human respiration health, but also poses a long-term threat to human cardiopulmonary functionality. Therefore, it is of great importance to quantitatively assess the PM released by forest combustion in forest fire studies.