Fire Science and Engineering (한국화재소방학회논문지)

Korean Institute of Fire Science and Engineering (한국화재소방학회)
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Development of Packed Bed Lung Model for the Deposition Studies of Fire Smoke

흡입연기의 침착 실험을 위한 충전층 폐모델 개발에 관한 연구

  • 구재학 (우석대학교 소방안전학과)
  • Published : 2008.06.30
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Abstract

Adverse health effects of inhaled smokes are associated with the amount of the particles deposited in human lung. Lung model is needed to simulate smoke deposition because of the hardness of the in vivo deposition experiment. However, it is hard to realize the successively decreasing bifurcations in the model. In this work, an experimental lung model was developed to simulate the smoke deposition in the lung. Instead of bifurcating airways, the lung model was made of packed beds of which size decreased downwards. The experimental results using this model showed good agreements with existing results for real lung in the deposition characteristics. The model could be applied to the studies of health risk assessment of the inhaled smoke particles generated by fire.

화재에 의한 흡입연기의 중장기 인체 유해성은 흡입연기가 폐에 침착되는 양과 밀접한 관련이 있다. 연기의 폐 내 침착량을 구하기 위해서는 인체 실험이 불가능한 만큼 폐모델을 이용한 실험이 필요하나 실제 폐형태에서 나타나는 연속적으로 감소되는 분지관의 제작상 어려움으로 인하여 하위 세대에서는 모델실험을 통한 침착 연구가 힘들다. 본 문제를 해결하기 위하여 이 연구에서는 아래로 갈수록 직경이 단계적으로 감소하는 구형 충전층을 이용한 폐모델을 개발하고 이를 폐침착 실험에 적용하였다. 실험장치는 각 입자크기별 호흡 패턴 변화에 따른 입자의 침착량을 측정하도록 구성되었으며 표준입자에 대한 실험 값을 실제 폐에 대한 결과와 비교함으로써 개발된 폐모델의 타당성을 검증하였다. 이 폐모델은 화재시 발생하는 여러 가지 연기입자의 흡입에 의한 인체 피해 연구에 도움이 될 것으로 생각된다.

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