Today I've talked to Roeland Bisschop, Project Manager in RISE, about his first-hand experience with battery fires. Roeland explained to me how do battery fires look from a scientific perspective, and how my perspective was kind of skewed by viral online videos. I've learnt a lot about fire propagation and products, as well as how to deal with fires that occured. This was a great talk, and I'm sure it will benefit many Fire Safety Engineers out there, who have to deal with this major issue with the limited knowledge we got today.

This is a part of two-episode miniseries, and in part II next week I will talk a bit about my experiences in modelling the consequences of rapidly growing fires in car parks. I hope you enjoy both episodes!


--- LinkedIn discussion thread---
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6810798545810051072

--- Usefull links ---
The review on electric vehicle fires:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10694-019-00944-3

Find Roeland at:
https://www.ri.se/en/person/roeland-bisschop
https://twitter.com/b_roeland

Full scale battery fire experiments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHZtne5yYBg

Toxicity of battery fires:
http://ri.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1522149&dswid=348


Handling battery fires: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-020-01038-1

Thank you to the SFPE for recognizing me with the 2025 SFPE Fire Safety Engineering Award! Huge thanks to YOU for being a part of this, and big thanks to the OFR for supporting me over the years.

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