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With over two decades of burning rooms (kitchens and living rooms mostly), furniture, pine trees, oil spills, and houses, Mr. Bryner leads the Fire Fighting Technology Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD (outside Washington DC). The group of mostly fire protection and chemical engineers conducts research on projects designed to improve the safety and effectiveness of fire fighters. Current research projects include: 1) Fire Fighter Locating/Tracking Systems, 2) Hose Stream Effectiveness Study, 3) Positive Pressure Ventilation Technique and Modeling¬, 4) Fire Fighter Protective Clothing Performance Model, 5) Performance of Thermal Imagers, and 6) Reconstruction of Multiple Fatality Fires. Mr. Bryner is currently involved in projects to enhance PASS device capability, to characterize thermal imagers/infrared cameras, improve fire fighter visibility, self-contained fire fighter data systems, to develop structural collapse prediction tools, and to incorporate physiological monitors (heart rate, EKG, blood pressure, & core temperature) into fire fighter garments. Improving fire fighter visibility involves helmet based systems which locate other instrumented helmets and provide visual (high intensity LEDs) as well as audible (helmet talks) cues to the fire fighters. The Fire Fighting Technology Group has participated in a number of multiple fatality fires including Rhode Island Nightclub and World Trade Center. He is currently leading the NIST Technical Study of the Furniture Store Fire in Charleston, South Carolina. Nelson is also program manager for the Advanced Fire Services Technology Program at NIST which includes development of science-based standards and testing protocols, enabling an information rich information environment, fire fighter training tools, and application of innovative new technologies. In addition, Mr. Bryner is scientific officer on Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contracts on instrumentation to predict structural collapse, ultrasonic fire fighter tracking tools, and distributed multimodal data and voice communication systems. Mr. Bryner’s formal training is as a chemical engineer (BS & MS in Chemical Engineering from University of Maryland) and Mr. Bryner has published over 72 papers and reports. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, National Fire Protection Association, ASTM, American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering), and Omega Chi Epsilon (Chemical Engineering). |
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Nelson P. BrynerEducationUniversity of Maryland, B.S.Chemical Engineering, 1983 University of Maryland, M.S. Chemical Engineering, 1986 PositionLeader and Deputy Division ChiefFire Fighting Technology Group Fire Research Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory |
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Information Last updated: 3/10/2008