This page contains the presentations of Section A of the 2nd International Scientific Conference on Fire Engineering and Disaster Management 2022. (Az oldal a II. Tűzvédelmi Mérnöki és Katasztrófavédelmi Nemzetközi Tudományos Konferencia angol nyelvű előadásainak anyagait tartalmazza.)
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Lajos Kiraly was born on 22nd of April in Tatabanya. He began his studies in 2004 at the University of Szechenyi Istvan, Gyor and graduated as an environmental engineer and in 2014 the BSc degree in mechatronics engineer in Banki Donat Faculty of Obuda University. He began his PhD studies in 2016 at the Doctoral School of Military Engineering at the University of Public Service. He is currently an EHS task owner in a multinational chemical industry, who works in the automotive industry and has market lead worldwide. His research topic is “research developements in ATEX.” The expected time for his thesis defence is spring 2021.
ZsuzsannaKerekes was born 1958 in Budapest. She began her hight studies in 1976 at the Pannon University in Veszprém, and obtained the MSc degree in chemical engineering, silicate chemistry specialization. She began her dr.univ studies in 1981 at the Doctoral School of Budapest University of Technology Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. She has been an university lecturer since 1999-2020 at Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering Fire-safety Engineering Óbuda University as fire protection laboratory leader. She obtained a PhD degree in 2015 and habil degree in 2019. Instructor since 2019 at the University of Public Service.
She has been working in her profession for 40 years in various fields: material structure research, ceramics, glass, analytics.
Her research topic is “research and development combustion mechanism of non-combustible and combustible materials.
László Bodnár was born on 31 of January 1992 in Budapest. He began his studies in 2010 at the University of Public Service and obtained the BSc degree in defence administration as a Defence Administration Organizer and in 2016 the MSc degree in defence administration as a Defence Administration Manager. He began his PhD studies in 2016 at the Doctoral School of Military Engineering at the University of Public Service and defended his thesis in 2021. He is currently an assistant lecturer at the National Directorate General for Disaster Management, who works at the Institute of Disaster Management of the Faculty of Law Enforcement at the University of Public Service. His research topics are wildfires, firefighting and fires at Wildland-urban interface.
Dr Ágoston Restás (Eng., ret. Firefighter Lt. Colonel) habilitated associate professor at the National University of Public Service, Faculty of Law Enforcement, Institute of Disaster Management, head of the Department of Fire Protection and Rescue Operation Management. Restas holds mechanical engineering (1988), economist (1999) and disaster manager (2002) degrees. In 2008 Restás made his PhD thesis at the Miklós Zrínyi National Defense University, titled “Research and development of the aerial reconnaissance and extinguishing of forest fires”. In 2013 Restas prepared his other PhD thesis at the Corvinus University of Budapest, titled “Decision-making of firefighting managers in emergencies”. Habilitation was also passed in 2015 at the National University of Public Service, Budapest.
Sándor Fehérvári was born on 21st September 1981 in Budapest, Hungary. After completing his schoolwork in 2000, Sándor entered the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He received a Master of Science in Civil Engineering with a major in geotechnics, buildings, and engineering structures in 2006. During his university studies, he earned the Student Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic for four semesters, the Student Scholarship of the BME for two semesters, the Student Scholarship of the Faculty of Civil Engineering for two semesters. He won Hungarian National Students’ Scientific Workshop in 2005. He was a PhD student at BME during 2006-2009, whereafter he received his summa cum laude PhD in civil engineering in 2009. In September 2009, he joined the Budapest Transport Corporation as a project manager for constructing the M4 metro line in Budapest, Hungary. Parallel to his industrial work, he was a senior lecturer later a college associate professor for tunnelling, foundation, and bridges at the University of Debrecen between 2009-2017. In 2017, he entered the Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Szent István University. The faculty joined the University of Óbuda in 2020. He is an associate professor and teaches various types of lectures regarding to construction materials. In 2021, Sándor was appointed to the head of the Department of Fire Safety and Construction Material Sciences. After graduating from the BME, Sándor received postgraduate diplomas in concrete technology, engineering-economics, and legal engineering. His main fields of interest are the effect of heat on concrete, tunnelling, transportation projects. Sándor is married and has a daughter.
Krisztina Komlai was born on 14 February 1989 in Pécs. She began her studies in 2007 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology and obtained the BSc degree in Chemical Engineering. She began her MSc studies in 2013 at the University of Pannonia and obtained the MSc degree in Materials Engineering. She completed her studies in 2021 as Fire Safety Engineer and her topic was “Fire resistance test of self-supporting double skin metal faced sandwich panels”.
She is currently a testing engineer at the Fire Testing Laboratory of ÉMI Non-profit Limited Liability Company for quality control and innovation in building.
Csenge Papp
Zsuzsanna Kerekes was born 1958 in Budapest. She began her hight studies in 1976 at the Pannon University in Veszprém, and obtained the MSc degree in chemical engineering, silicate chemistry specialization. She began her dr.univ studies in 1981 at the Doctoral School of Budapest University of Technology Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. She has been an university lecturer since 1999-2020 at Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering Fire-safety Engineering Óbuda University as fire protection laboratory leader. She obtained a PhD degree in 2015 and habil degree in 2019. Instructor since 2019 at the University of Public Service.
She has been working in her profession for 40 years in various fields: material structure research, ceramics, glass, analytics.
Her research topic is “research and development combustion mechanism of non-combustible and combustible materials.
Colonel Dr. habil. Gyula Vass was born in 1957. He has been leading the Institute of Disaster Management since 2017. Colonel Dr. Vass has master’s degrees in civil engineer (1991) and fire engineering (1986). He defended his PhD thesis in the field of military sciences, disaster management in 2006 at the Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University. In 2016 he habilitated at Ludovika-UPS and from 2017, he is full-time associate professor. He has positions at Fire and Disaster Management organisations as a firefighter, fire prevention officer, industrial safety expert and different fire chiefs. He is a member of the Scientific Council for Disaster Management, the Technical Scientific Section for Nuclear Accident Prevention and the Nuclear Energy Certification Commission.
Norbert Érces was born on the 25. of August 1986, in Budapest. He has begun his studies in 2005 at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. During his studies, he chose to specialize in building service engineering. In 2014 he obtained an MSc degree in comfort building engineering, and this year he worked as a PhD student in the Department of Building Services and Process Engineering. He works as a department engineer since 2017 at the department. His research topic is investigation of biomass fired systems. His educational activities include HVAC system planning, gas supply, use of renewable energy, air conditioning, laboratory measurements, water supply and sewerage.
Zsuzsanna Kerekes was born 1958 in Budapest. She began her hight studies in 1976 at the Pannon University in Veszprém, and obtained the MSc degree in chemical engineering, silicate chemistry specialization. She began her dr.univ studies in 1981 at the Doctoral School of Budapest University of Technology Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. She has been an university lecturer since 1999-2020 at Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering Fire-safety Engineering Óbuda University as fire protection laboratory leader. She obtained a PhD degree in 2015 and habil degree in 2019. Instructor since 2019 at the University of Public Service.
She has been working in her profession for 40 years in various fields: material structure research, ceramics, glass, analytics.
Her research topic is “research and development combustion mechanism of non-combustible and combustible materials.
Sándor Rácz was born on 11 of April 1973 in Nyírbátor. He began his studies in 2010 at the University of Public Service and obtained the BSc degree in defence administration as a Defence Administration Organizer and after that the MSc degree in defence administration as a Defence Administration Manager. He began his PhD studies in 2015 at the Doctoral School of Military Engineering at the University of Public Service. He received his scientific degree in 2019. He is currently an assistant professor at the National Directorate General for Disaster Management, who works at the Institute of Disaster Management of the Faculty of Law Enforcement at the University of Public Service. He also worked at the Municipal Fire Department of Budapest and at the Professional Fire Department of Budapest District IX as a Deputy Commander.
Juliana Sally Renner is currently a PhD Mechanical Engineering student at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST) since 2019 under the supervision of Professor Xu Qiang and Associate Professor Lin Jiang. She received her Master degree in 2015 at University College of Education, Winneba (Kumasi Campus), and Bachelor of Technology (2014) with First Class honors at Cape Coast Technical University, Ghana. Also gain her Higher National Diploma (HND) in Mechanical Engineering in 2001. She has since been working as a research fellow at the laboratory in Cape Coast Technical University, teaching and supervising student to perform fluid and mechanics of machines from 2003 till present. She has been involved in many academic activities since employed at the University including supervising student project works and teaching several engineering courses. She has specialized in the area of thermal analysis, material science, manufacturing process and quality control.
Rhoda Afriyie Mensah
Education:
Sept. 2016 - Oct 2020 Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China.
Prediction of flammability parameters with Machine learning methods.
Sept. 2013 - June 2016 Masters in Automotive Engineering in Wuhan University of Technology, China.
Performance analysis of Spark Ignition Engines.
Sept. 2008 - June 2012 Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
Design of a horizontal drilling machine for creating ducts beneath tarred roads.
Work:
August 2021 – Present Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Structural and Fire Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, sweden.
Oct 2020 – July 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China 210094.
May 2019 - Sept. 2019 Mechanical Engineer at Semiland Company Limited, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Aug. 2012 - July 2013 Research Assistant at Technology Consultancy Center, KNUST, Ghana.
May 2011 - Aug. 2011 Assistant Mechanical Engineer at Interplast Ghana Limited, Accra, Ghana.
Dr. Lin Jiang received his PhD from University of Science and Technology of China in 2017, and BEng from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 2012. Prior to join NJUST, Dr. Jiang was a postdoc researcher in State Key Laboratory of Fire Sciences, USTC, where he conducted discrete flame spread and safety of hazardous chemicals. Dr Jiang’s research includes flame spread over solid combustible, pyrolysis and its kinetics of hazardous chemicals, and thermal ablation of charring materials. In google scholar, Dr. Jiang has over 40 publications and 600 citations.
Xu Quiang is a professor at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He obtained his Master degree and also his Doctor Degree of Engineering at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He made his post-Doctoral Fellow at “Fire Technology Group” in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia. He participated in the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic for the Support of Mobility of Students, PhD Students, University Teachers, Researchers and Artists, Flammability and fire behaviour research of selected polymers for energy efficient buildings, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia. His research interests are characterization of flammability, Ignition and Flame Spread, Measurement and Test Methods for fire safety research, Calorimetry and Experimental Thermodynamics and Kinetics.
Colonel Dr. habil. Gyula Vass was born in 1957. He has been leading the Institute of Disaster Management since 2017. Colonel Dr. Vass has master’s degrees in civil engineer (1991) and fire engineering (1986). He defended his PhD thesis in the field of military sciences, disaster management in 2006 at the Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University. In 2016 he habilitated at Ludovika-UPS and from 2017, he is full-time associate professor. He has positions at Fire and Disaster Management organisations as a firefighter, fire prevention officer, industrial safety expert and different fire chiefs. He is a member of the Scientific Council for Disaster Management, the Technical Scientific Section for Nuclear Accident Prevention and the Nuclear Energy Certification Commission.
Solomon Asante-Okyere is currently a Lecturer in the School of Petroleum Studies, University of Mines and Technology, Ghana. He holds a PhD and M.Sc. from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) and B.Sc. from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana). His expertise is in the application of artificial intelligence/machine learning.
Péter Pántya began his studies in 2003 at the Tessedik Sámuel College (BSc degree in human affairs) later continue at the Miklós Zrínyi National Defence University (MSc an BSc) for Defence Administration Organizer (Disaster Management, Fire Protection and Firefighter) He began his PhD studies in 2008 at the Doctoral School of Military Engineering at the Miklós Zrínyi National Defence University. He is currently an associate professor at the Institute for Disaster Management of the Faculty of Law Enforcement at the University of Public Service. He also has a habilitation. His research topics are: fire and disaster management activities, technical equipment, and the raising of the efficiency of the fire organisations at the incidents.
Zoltán Sebő was applied to become a professional firefighter after applying for compulsory military service in 1998. He was started at the Érd Professional Fire Department in 1999, and completed the basic firefighting course this year.
He began his career as a news attendant and then became a subordinate firefighter, after that a special operations manager, and now he is a crew commander. After passing the matriculation exams, he received training as a commander at the Disaster Management Training Center.
He began his higher education at the Department of Fire Protection and Rescue Management of the University of Public Service in 2019. He participated at the Scientific Student Conference of this University as a speaker.
