Wildland Engineer Book 3rd Update
A updated version of the Apparatus Engineers Book will be arriving by October 2nd.
This version has a re-edited chapter 1 that gives a much better description of specific and latent heats and what they are.
Then chapter 2, completely re-written covers the calculation process of heat generation as well as heat absorption of water from the engines nozzle, to helicopter buckets, SEATS etc etc.
This is where I show what the FBANS on fires use in the form of the Fire Behavior Nomograms, however, today many use software such as Behave Plus and this software is largely derived from the Nomograms and the math developed by Richard Rothermel from the 1970’s.
This was missed the first time I wrote the book (sorry im not a writer ) and then upon noticing such I knew I had to do a major update.
This information is actually quite critical if you really want to be successful in suppression of major wildland fires as on the one hand you need to know how much water needed to cool the active flame front, yet on the other hand in order to do so, you have to know the fuel moisture percentage, slope, wind speeds and fuel types to obtain the rate of spread and fire intensity.
Then from there you can determine the amount of cooling agent. Yet, we do not have any courses anywhere in wildland that actually teach thermodynamics relationships!
Then I cover pump affinity laws and the relationships and what they mean in later chapters among several other updates.
I promised a couple a free update when it arrived, that is still going to happen.
Fire is heat, want it out? Learn thermo properties!
Engineers Make it Happen!