During my work for the Norwegian Public Roads
Administration, I have bed lucky to have the possibility to write some very few
publications, concerning tunnel ventilation and safety. My job is usually to
write specifications, and standards for road tunnel control and monitoring.
The first one is about correlation between soot
and NO inside the Bømlafjord tunnel, and was published in Journal of Environmental Monitoring
with the title:
Due to the lack of good, proved equipment for
fire detection in road traffic tunnels, I was able to use time for testing this
in the Runehammer test tunnel in
The main result from these test was, that for
the purpose of fire detection, it is useless to test wit Heptane,
or gasoline.
By igniting an old car, all results for fire
detection was toppled.
The results from this test is available from Tunnelling and Underground space technology
The article is
Automatic
fire detection in road traffic tunnels