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Abstract
Nile- floating hotels that operate in the Nile River in short cruises from Aswan to Luxor or in long cruises from Aswan to Cairo have significant economic impact. Besides, tourism is one of the most important resources of national income in Egypt and Nile-floating hotels are considered as a major tourist attraction.
The t1eet of Nile-floating hotels, which consists of about 280 units. contributes about 502 million dollars annually from the Egyptian national income. Unfortunately this fleet, which carries about 56,000 tourists and workers, is subjected to many types of accidents such as stranding, collision. tire and sinking. These accidents may lead to disasters with bad effect on the reputation of Nile tourism and the national economy of Egypt, especially if the accident causes fatalities or affects the navigational operation on the River Nile.
A statistical analysis of collected data of such accidents, which occurred on board Nile-floating hotels and covered the period from 2002 to February 2014, shows that the fire accidents represent about 23 of the total accidents that occur on board Nile floating hotels. Regardless of where onboard a fire will start, it has the potential to spread out quickly to different parts of the Nile-floating hotel, and ifit is not extinguished in time it can have an overwhelming effect on people onboard, ship and environment. Though of being ranked the third, fire accident aboard a Nile-floating hotel with many crew and passengers on board is a potential catastrophe, it can lead to many deaths due to the rapid spread of toxic smoke. These lethal cases are mostly encountered in spaces connected through small paths and corridors like accommodation spaces, where toxic smoke has high potential to fill the whole domain in short time. For people occupying these areas, there may be very little time available to escape before heat and toxic gases become a major threat towards life and health.
Accordingly, the application of fire and evacuation simulation techniques (consequence analysis tools) (used for the first time in the fire safety design of Nile-floating hotels) is studied in order to compare between the levels of fire safety of existing designs and proposed alternative designs. The comparison is based on the number of fatalities in each case.
A fire scenario, which is considered the worst case fire scenario that could occur in the accommodation spaces on board Nile-floating hotels and causes fatalities, has been studied in order to assess its effects on human life safety. Besides, a series of simulations for the existing design of Nile¬floating hotels as well as eight proposed alternative designs have been studied ..
The results that were obtained from this study have shown that the level of fire safety of the proposed alternative designs is better than the level of fire safety of the existing design.