Prof. Milan Protic, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Milan Protic, Associate Professor,
Faculty of Occupational Safety,
Carnojevica 10a, 18000 Nis, Serbia
Email: milan.protic@znrfak.ni.ac.rs
Office: + 381 18 529 884
Fire science,
Process safety,
Combustion,
Wildland fires,
Material flammability,
Toxic product generation during fires and transport,
Machine learning applications.
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Our laboratory has three dedicated spaces that are available for fire, thermal and combustion experiments.
This is the main laboratory space for Fire protection laboratory. Hall houses most of the lab equipment used for bench-scale fire research.
This space houses Thermogravimetric analyser, system for TGA furnace conditioning and precise analytic balance for samples measurement.
This classroom is equipped with server with installed XVR on Scene software for students’ virtual reality training for various process safety scenarios.
Mass Loss Calorimeter is used for assessing flammability, ignitability and combustibility studies of different kind of materials. This device enables samples of matter to undergo heating in a strictly regulated fashion, while at the same time monitoring the decrease in mass of the sample. As a result, the degradation process of materials can be comprehended. Instrument is equipped with thermopile, methane calibration burner and chimney for heat release assessment. It is housed inside the specially designed enclosure and connected to exhausted system designed and fabricated according to ISO 56601.
Producer: FTT, UK
This custom made systems consists of advanced Gasmet DX4000 FTIR gas analyser in conjunction with Mass Loss Calorimeter for online measurements of combustion gases (fire effluents) in fire tests. Gasmet DX4000 is portable FTIR gas analyzer for online multiple gas compounds accurate monitoring in hot and humid sample gas. Due to the extensive variety of organic and inorganic chemicals that can exist in extracted gas samples, analyzing gases in fire effluents is a demanding and intricate task. Our system can measure up to 50 gases simultaneously from % to ppm level. The corrosion resistant sample cell is heated to 180 °C preventing condensation of compounds with low dew point temperature. The DX4000 is used with the Gasmet PSS portable sampling system. This system utilizes hot-and-wet measurement principle (no drying or dilution). This ensures that the analysis is done with a representative sample. There is two-stage particulate filtration: first one in sampling probe and the second one in sampling system.
Producer: Gasmet, FI
Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) is a thermal analysis technique where the modifications in chemical and physical characteristics of materials are recorded during the heating programme. TGA is frequently employed to assess specific traits of materials that exhibit either an increase or decrease in mass as a result of degradation, oxidation, or loss of volatile substances (such as water). TGA is widely utilized in various applications, including: characterizing materials by analyzing the typical decomposition patterns, investigating degradation processes and reaction dynamics, determining the organic composition of a sample, and determining the inorganic (e.g. ash) composition of a sample, which can serve to validate predicted material structures or be used as a straightforward chemical analysis.
Producer: Perkin Elmer, USA
Oxygen bomb combustion calorimeter IKA C200 is used for determing gross calorific values of liquid and solid samples. Calorific value measurement in accordance with DIN 51900, ISO 1928, ASTM D240, ASTM D4809, ASTM D5865, ASTM D1989, ASTM D5468, ASTM E711, GOST 147, GOST 21261. Manual oxygen handling and water preparation, automatic ignition and calculation of calorific value.
Producer: IKA, DE
Its main purpose is the study of reaction to fire and fire resistance, applied for instance in flammability tests and smoke chamber tests. Instrument measures the heat flux in the range from 0 up to 100 kW/m2.
Producer: Medtherm Corporation, USA
The lab has one data acquisition system based on DataTaker DT80 logger. In our lab it is used for online readings and archiving readings from thermocouples and pressure transducers during the fire experiments.
Producer: Thermo Fisher Scientific, AU
For testing vegetation flammability properties special, custom made sample holders were designed and fabricated.
The lab has one muffle furnace. It is a high-temperature furnace capable of heating samples up to 1200°C.
Producer: Nigos, SRB
The XVR on Scene software is an innovative virtual reality training solution that aims to improve the skills and proficiency of safety, emergency, and incident response personnel. The platform allows students to experience realistic virtual reality simulations that help to enhance their incident command capabilities. The immersive learning environment offers opportunities for creating versatile fire safety scenarios. With its flexible and engaging simulations, XVR is a valuable tool for building competence in process safety response.
Transport of Dangerous Goods - Modernization of Curricula and Development of Trainings for Professionals in the Western Balkans HEIs - DGTRANS
Funding programme: ERASMUS+
About
The main aims and specific objectives of the project are:
- To identify key risks of the TDG by road in WB partner countries according to different regulations;
- To improve existing and develop new curricula for undergraduate and master studies in accordance with Bologna requirements and national accreditation standards implementing new subjects studying the TDG by road. These subjects should cover both provisions concerning dangerous goods and provisions concerning transport equipment and transport operations.
- To establish Training Centers within WB HEIs.
Realization: December 2022 - December 2025
Fire in the Earth System: Science & Society - FIRElinks
Funding programme: COST action
About
The main aim of FIRElinks is to power synergistic collaborations between European research groups and stakeholders with the objective to synthesise the existing knowledge and expertise, and to define a concerted research agenda which promotes an integrated approach to create fire-resilient landscapes, taking into account biological, biochemical and-physical, but also socio-economic, historical, geographical, sociological, perception and policy constraints.
This is an urgent societal need due to expected further intensification and geographical spreading of wildfire regimes under Global Change.
Realization: April 2019 - October 2023
Web: https://firelinks.eu/
Joint Training Programme for Forest Fire Prevention and Management
Funding programme: Interreg-IPA Cross-border Cooperation Bulgaria-Serbia Programme
About
The project is designed to ensure high-level preparedness, boost closer cooperation and exchange of know-how and best practices in the field of forest fire (FF) prevention and management by the specialized national and educational institutions of Bulgaria and Serbia. This will be achieved by joint development and synchronized application of specific requirements, maps, procedures and trainings that enhance the coordination and management of collective reactions in emergency situations in the cross-border (CB) area.
Realization: November 2016- February 2019 Web:
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjE5nwxIl3A