Clean Agent Selection Approached by Fuzzy TOPSIS Decision-Making Method

Abstract

Abstract. It is well known that halons are ozone-depleting substances and their\ud release into the atmosphere has contributed in the last decades to the reduction in the\ud ozone layer. In consequence to the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement\ud designed to gradually eliminate the use of such substances, fire protection industry\ud researchers faced the challenge of finding effective solutions to replace halon extinguishers.\ud This research aims to provide a method to support the decision maker in\ud the selection of the most suitable extinguisher substance for a specific application.\ud According to such framework, a set of quantitative and qualitative criteria has\ud been established in the decision-making problem. Such criteria have been properly\ud regrouped in clusters in order to better evaluate their relative importance by means of\ud AHP method and the criteria have been used for scoring the alternatives. The choice\ud of an extinguisher substance rather than another has been subsequently carried out\ud by means of a fuzzy TOPSIS approach, which reflects the vagueness of qualitative\ud criteria

Fire Extinguishing Agents: Sort and Comparison

“…Argon properties as a gas are relevant to the extinguishing process. It is more suitable for extinguishing systems than N2 as in [2]. In an emergency, the flooding area is filled quickly and evenly by the gaseous extinguishing agent, thus providing a total flooding effect.…”

“…There are no toxicological factors associated with the use of Argonite. Argonite will not decompose or produce any by-products when exposed to a flame from a fire condition as in [2]. Most Argonite systems are designed to extinguish fires with a minimum agent concentration of 37.9 % achieved within one minute.…”

An assessment approach for non-governmental organizations in humanitarian relief logistics and an application in Turkey

“…AHP and TOPSIS approaches are integrated by researchers for different applications as; a suitable partner selection for a strategic alliance in a logistics value chain (Buyukozkan et al 2008), facility location selection (Ertugrul, Karakasoglu 2008), supplier selection (Jolai et al 2011;Wang et al 2009;Zeydan et al 2011), selecting a cleaning system for pieces of four stroke engines, (Garcia-Cascales, Lamata 2009), material selection (Rathod, Kanzaria 2011), prioritizing effective 7Ms: Management, Manpower, Marketing, Method, Machine, Material, and Money (Rostamzadeh, Sofian 2011), evaluating notebook computer companies (Sun 2010), evaluating airline service quality (Tsaur et al 2002), hazardous waste transportation firm selection (Gumus 2009), solid waste transhipment site selection problem (Onut, Soner 2008), extinguisher ozone depleting substance (Aiello et al 2009), refractured well selection (Li et al 2012), government investments in higher education (Kahraman et al 2013). The literature on multi criteria decision making (MCDM) is too large to present here.…”

An application of TOPSIS method for ranking different strategic planning methodology

“…There are various extensions of TOPSIS such as fuzzy TOPSIS (Aiello et al, 2009). Amiri (2010), for example, attemped project selection for oil-fields development by implementing the combined analytical hierachy process (AHP) and fuzzy TOPSIS methods.…”