CONSUME 3.0 Demonstration
Susan Prichard, Roger Ottmar, and Gary Anderson
Tutorial Overview
• Introduction to Consume: features and
applications
• Consume tutorial: step-by-step screen
instructions
• Applications: practical exercises for
Hawaii.
Introduction
• Consume models the amount of fuel
consumption and emissions of a prescribed or
wildland fire.
• Version 3.0 builds on Consume 2.1 with more
flexibility, updated equations, and a direct link
to the FCCS.
• Consume 3.0 accommodates a wide range of
fuel characteristics, including those defined by
the user.
Fuel Inputs in Consume 2.1
Fuel Inputs in Consume 3.0
Consume 3.0 Features
1. System requirements: Windows operating
systems (2000 and XP).
2. Models fuel consumption and emissions
based on field data.
3. Natural consumption equations differ by
region (boreal, southern and western).
4. Calculations depend on the fuel type (activity,
natural or piled).
FERA Consumption Trials
Boreal Forest
43 units
Sage
Grass
Chaparral
16 units
4 units
Ponderosa pine/mixed
conifer
Southern Pine
24 units
40 units
53 units
Consumption Trial Locations
Consume Regional Equations
WESTERN REGION
SOUTHERN
REGION
SOUTHERN
REGION
BOREAL REGION
Southern Region
Western Region
210 - Warm Continental Division
310 - Tropical/Subtropical Steppe Division
220 - Hot Continental Division
320 - Tropical/Subtropical Desert Division
240 - Marine Division
410 - Savanna Division
250 - Prairie Division
SOUTHERN
REGION
230 - Subtropical Division
260 - Mediterranean Division
420 - Rainforest Division
Boreal Region
330 - Temperate Steppe Division
120 - Tundra Division
340 - Temperate Desert Division
130 - Subarctic Division
Consume 3.0 Features
5. Provides a link from FCCS to import
customized fuelbeds directly into Consume.
6. Allows users to edit or create fuelbeds directly
in Consume and create a library of custom
fuelbeds.
7. Creates printable and exportable reports.
Potential applications
1) Provides a decision-making tool for
prescribed and wildland fire planning.
2) Helps you achieve burn objectives while
minimizing impact of fire on air quality and
other resources.
3) Models our current understanding of wildland
fuel consumption and emissions; can be used
in hypothesis testing for future consumption
and emissions trials.
Consume Welcome Screen
(Click Next to enter Consume)
Instructions for beginning users
(Click Continue to Consume)
Navigation Tree – Project categories
Double-click on
Active Projects or
the “+” button to
expand this project
category
Navigation Tree – Project screen
Click on a project
name to view the
associated project
screen.
Click on the “+”
button or doubleclick on a project
name to view
project contents.
Project Organization
PROJECT
UNIT 2
UNIT 1
Fuelbed A
Fuelbed B
Fuelbed C
Fuelbed D
Navigation Tree – Unit screen
Click on a unit to
view the
associated unit
screen
Navigation Tree – Fuelbed screen
Click on a fuelbed
to view the
associated
fuelbed screen
If needed,
resize the tree
grid here
Fuelbed screen – general variables
Enter general
fuelbed
information here.
Fuelbed screen – environmental variables
Click on the
environmental
variables tab to
enter data on this
page.
Fuelbed screen – fuel characteristics
Click on the fuel
characteristics tab to
enter data on this page.
Click on
stratum tabs to
switch between
pages.
Fuelbed Strata & Categories
Stratum
Category
CANOPY
Trees, Snags, Ladder Fuels
SHRUBS
Primary and secondary layers
NONWOODY
VEGETATION
Primary and secondary layers
WOODY FUELS
Sound and rotten wood, stumps, woody
Fuel accumulations (Jackpots, Piles & Windrows)
LLM
Litter, Lichen and Moss layers
GROUND FUELS
Duff, Basal accumulations and Squirrel Middens
Fuelbed screen – shrub stratum
Click on the
calculator button
to open a loading
calculator.
Fuelbed screen – calculator buttons
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Fuelbed screen – nonwoody stratum
Fuelbed screen – woody stratum
Click on the
Add button to
open the pile
group wizard.
Pile Group Wizard – pile dimensions
1. Enter a pile group name.
2. Enter pile shape
and dimensions.
Pile group wizard – packing ratio
Select a
packing
ratio that
best
represents
your fuels.
Pile group wizard – other details
Input
other details
including soil
content,
species
composition,
and number
of piles.
Fuelbed screen – LLM stratum
Fuelbed screen – ground fuels stratum
Fuelbed screen – FCCS wizard
Click the red button to
open the FCCS wizard.
FCCS Wizard
1. Click here to load a
FCCS national fuelbed.
2. Select a
fuelbed from this
list or refine your
search using a
query.
3. Click the Load
Values button to
accept and use
the fuelbed.
FCCS Wizard – fuelbed query
1. Refine
your search
using
fuelbed
selection
variables.
2. Select a
fuelbed.
3. Click the Load
Values button to
accept and use
the fuelbed.
Color coding of inputs (user vs FCCS)
Black = User input
Blue = FCCS value
Red = Modified
FCCS value
Consumption and Emissions Screen
Click on the Consumption
and Emissions Summary
button to view a summary
report.
Consumption and Emissions summaries
Click on tabs to switch
between summary reports.
Note: you
may select
any valid
project, unit or
fuelbed to
view summary
reports while
in this screen.
Click on the Return to editing
button to exit this screen.
Report selection screen – input report
1. Select report
2. Select a project.
3. Click on a
combination of units
and projects for the
report or graph.
(Click Check All to
select all).
4. Click Display
Report.
Input report
Click on the back button to return to
the report selection screen.
Report selection screen – consumption report
1. Select a
consumption report.
2. Select a project.
3. Click on a
combination of units
and projects for the
report.
4. Select a range
of 1000-hr FMs and
increment.
5. Specify report
units.
6. Click Display
Report.
Consumption by 1000-hr FM report
Report selection screen – emissions graph
1. Select graph
type.
2. Select a project.
3. Click on a
combination of units
and projects for the
report or graph.
4. Select a range
of 1000-hr FMs and
pollutants to plot.
5. Specify units.
6. Click Excel
Excel graph: emissions by 1000-hr FM
Note: To return to Consume, exit
or minimize Excel.
Scenario Testing
To open the scenario testing tool:
1) Select a valid fuelbed in the navigation tree.
2) Select scenario testing from the Tools menu.
Scenario Testing – add scenario
To create a scenario,
click the Add button.
Scenario Testing – creating a scenario
1. Select a non-piled or piled scenario.
2. Enter scenario inputs.
3. Save the scenario.
Scenario Testing – summary report
Click tabs to switch
between report options.
Scenario Testing – fuel consumption graph
1. Click the Fuel
Consumption Graph tab.
2. Select a graph type.
Scenario Testing – fuel consumption graph
Select zoom setting here.
Move slider
to view a
different
scenario.
Scenario Testing – emissions graph
1. Click the Emissions Graph tab.
2. Select graph type
AND pollutant.
File management
You can use Consume’s import and export tools to:
• Store backup project files outside of the program.
• Restore project settings.
• Share projects with colleagues.
File management
Export
1) Select a project in the navigation
tree.
2) Select Export from the File menu.
Import
1) Import from the File menu.
2) Open a Consume export folder
3) Select the Consume export file (.cef)
Consume 3.0 Team
Susan Prichard (PWFSL)
Roger Ottmar (PWFSL)
Gary Anderson (Hoefler Consulting Group)
PNW Research Station
Seattle Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory
Phone: 509-996-2408 (Susan) 206-732-7826 (Roger)
E-mail: sprich@u.washington.edu
Web: www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/consume