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Mr Dennis Su Wee Pau

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Department: Civil and Natural Resources Engineering

Email: dennis.pau@canterbury.ac.nz

Phone Number: +64 3 369 3999 ext. null

Office: Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E313

Language: English

Fire-safe building design is paramount to ensure sustainable, resilience development of our built-environment
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Fields of Research

  • Pyrolysis and oxidative thermal decomposition of fuels
  • Prediction of fire spread mechanisms and model inputs optimisation
  • Fire safety and risk of energy efficient, sustainable building designs
  • Fire safety and fire protection of built environment

Researcher Summary

My research interests and activities relate to the burning behaviour of fire hazardous materials. The type of fuels investigated include common plastic and cellulosic fuels. The research objective aims to develop the fire science knowledge about these fuels, and to evaluate and improve the predictive capability of numerical fire models.

My research also covers fire safety of the built environments, including energy efficient/sustainable buildings, high-rise, cultural heritage etc. The research objective is to enhance the life safety of people and property protection by developing the fire engineering best practices.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Engineering and Technology: Energy and Fuels; Fire Engineering; Materials; Modelling; Thermodynamics & Heat Transfer; Thermophysical Properties; Timber
  • Fire Safety of Sustainable Building Design - Research Idea.pdf

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Tu J., Pau D., Yang T., Nan S., Zhang J., Shang F. and Li K. (2022) Effect of foam air mixing on flame intensification – comparative experimental study of foam and water sprays extinguishing transformer oil pool fire. Fire Safety Journal 133 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2022.103664. (Journal Articles)
  • Zou Y., Pau D., Li Y., Zhang Y. and Li K. (2022) Oxygen effects on the evolution of hydrogen chloride and chlorine gas during combustion of PVC-CaCO3 based cable. Fuel 329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2022.125469. (Journal Articles)
  • Zhang J., Guo Y., Pau D., Li K., Xie K. and Zou Y. (2021) Pyrolysis kinetics and determination of organic components and N-alkanes yields of Karamay transformer oil using TG, FTIR and Py-GC/MS analyses. Fuel 306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121691. (Journal Articles)
  • Pau DSW., Fleischmann CM. and Delichatsios MA. (2020) Apparatus for investigating the burning and dripping of vertically oriented polyurethane foams. Fire and Materials 44(2): 211-229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fam.2794. (Journal Articles)
  • Pau DSW., Fleischmann CM. and Delichatsios MA. (2020) Thermal decomposition of flexible polyurethane foams in air. Fire Safety Journal 111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2019.102925. (Journal Articles)
  • Fleischmann C., Pau D., Montgomery J. and Evans L. (2019) Sensitivity Analysis of Smoke Flow in New Zealand High-Rise Stairwells. In Wu G-Y; Tsai K-C; Chow W-K (Eds). The Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology 1Singapore: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9139-3_66. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Pau D., Duncan C. and Fleischmann C. (2019) Performance-based fire engineering design of a heritage building: McDougall house case study. Safety 5(3) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/safety5030045. (Journal Articles)
  • Pau D., Duncan C. and Fleischmann C. (2019) Fire Protection and Fire Safety Design of New Zealand Heritage Building. In Wu G-Y; Tsai K-C; Chow W-K (Eds). The Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology 1Singapore: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9139-3_65. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Pau D., Fleischmann C. and Delichatsios M. (2019) Thermal Decomposition of Flexible Polyurethane Foams in Air. In Snegirev A; Tamanini F; Bradley D; Liu N; Molkov V; Chaumeix N (Eds). Proceedings of the Ninth International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards 2 http://dx.doi.org/10.18720/SPBPU/2/k19-31. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Buchanan AH., Dunn A., O'Neill J. and Pau D. (2018) Fire safety of CLT buildings in New Zealand and Australia. Wood and Fiber Science 50: 96-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.22382/wfs-2018-043. (Journal Articles)
  • Li K., Pau DS. and Zhang H. (2016) Pyrolysis of polyurethane foam: optimized search for kinetic properties via simultaneous K-K method, genetic algorithm and elemental analysis. Fire and Materials 40(6): 800-817. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fam.2343. (Journal Articles)
  • Li K., Pau DSW., Wang J. and Ji J. (2015) Modelling pyrolysis of charring materials: determining flame heat flux using bench-scale experiments of medium density fibreboard (MDF). Chemical Engineering Science 123 C: 39-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2014.10.043. (Journal Articles)
  • Li KY., Pau DSW., Hou YN. and Ji J. (2014) Modeling pyrolysis of charring materials: Determining kinetic properties and heat of pyrolysis of medium density fiberboard. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 53(1): 141-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie402905z. (Journal Articles)
  • Meunders A., Baker G., Arnold L., Schroeder B., Spearpoint M. and Pau D. (2014) Parameter Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis for Fire Spread Modelling with FDS. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Pau D. (2014) A Comparative Study on Combustion Behaviours of Polyurethane Foams with Numerical Simulations using Pyrolysis Models. PhD Thesis, Christchurch, New Zealand. University of Canterbury. (Theses / Dissertations)
  • Pau D., Fleischmann CM., Spearpoint M. and Li KY. (2014) Sensitivity of Heat of Reaction for Polyurethane Foams. In Fire Safety Science 11: 179-192. http://dx.doi.org/10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.11-179. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Pau DSW., Fleischmann CM., Spearpoint MJ. and Li KY. (2014) Thermophysical properties of polyurethane foams and their melts. Fire and Materials 38(4): 433-450. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fam.2188. (Journal Articles)
  • Pau DSW., Fleischmann CM., Spearpoint MJ. and Li KY. (2013) Determination of kinetic properties of polyurethane foam decomposition for pyrolysis modelling. Journal of Fire Sciences 31(4): 356-384. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734904113475858. (Journal Articles)
  • Pau DSW. and Fleischmann CM. (2010) Melting Rate of Polyurethane Foam in a Vertical Orientation. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Future Research

  • Pyrolysis and oxidative thermal decomposition of fuels
  • Thermophysical properties of fuels at elevated temperature
  • Fire safety of mass timber buildings
  • Complex pyrolysis modelling using FDS
  • Fire safety of modern facade systems
  • Fire safety of high-rise buildings
  • Species production in well-ventilated and under-ventilated fires

Key Methodologies

  • Thermal analysis and calorimetry
  • Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
  • Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
  • Transient plane source
  • Oxygen depletion calorimetry
  • Fire Dynamics Simulator
  • B-RISK
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