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Study on the Fire Risk Prediction Assessment due to Deterioration contact of combustible cables in Underground Common Utility Tunnels

지하공동구내 가연성케이블의 열화접촉으로 인한 화재위험성 예측평가

  • Ko, Jaesun (Dept. of Fire fighting Safety Management, University of Howon)
  • Received : 2015.02.28
  • Accepted : 2015.03.26
  • Published : 2015.03.31

Abstract

Recent underground common utility tunnels are underground facilities for jointly accommodating more than 2 kinds of air-conditioning and heating facilities, vacuum dust collector, information processing cables as well as electricity, telecommunications, waterworks, city gas, sewerage system required when citizens live their daily lives and facilities responsible for the central function of the country but it is difficult to cope with fire accidents quickly and hard to enter into common utility tunnels to extinguish a fire due to toxic gases and smoke generated when various cables are burnt. Thus, in the event of a fire, not only the nerve center of the country is paralyzed such as significant property damage and loss of communication etc. but citizen inconveniences are caused. Therefore, noticing that most fires break out by a short circuit due to electrical works and degradation contact due to combustible cables as the main causes of fires in domestic and foreign common utility tunnels fire cases that have occurred so far, the purpose of this paper is to scientifically analyze the behavior of a fire by producing the model of actual common utility tunnels and reproducing the fire. A fire experiment was conducted in a state that line type fixed temperature detector, fire door, connection deluge set and ventilation equipment are installed in underground common utility tunnels and transmission power distribution cables are coated with fire proof paints in a certain section and heating pipes are fire proof covered. As a result, in the case of Type II, the maximum temperature was measured as $932^{\circ}C$ and line type fixed temperature detector displayed the fire location exactly in the receiver at a constant temperature. And transmission power distribution cables painted with fire proof paints in a certain section, the case of Type III, were found not to be fire resistant and fire proof covered heating pipes to be fire resistant for about 30 minutes. Also, fire simulation was carried out by entering fire load during a real fire test and as a result, the maximum temperature is $943^{\circ}C$, almost identical with $932^{\circ}C$ during a real fire test. Therefore, it is considered that fire behaviour can be predicted by conducting fire simulation only with common utility tunnels fire load and result values of heat release rate, height of the smoke layer, concentration of O2, CO, CO2 etc. obtained by simulation are determined to be applied as the values during a real fire experiment. In the future, it is expected that more reliable information on domestic underground common utility tunnels fire accidents can be provided and it will contribute to construction and maintenance repair effectively and systematically by analyzing and accumulating experimental data on domestic underground common utility tunnels fire accidents built in this study and fire cases continuously every year and complementing laws and regulations and administration manuals etc.

최근 지하공동구(Underground Common Utility Tunnels)는 도시민이 일상생활을 영위하는데 필요한 전기, 통신, 상수도, 도시 가스, 하수도뿐만 아니라 냉난방시설, 진공 집진관, 정보처리케이블 등의 시설물을 2종 이상 공동으로 수용하기 위한 지하시설물로서 국가의 중추기능을 담당하는 시설이지만, 화재 사고시 신속한 대처가 힘들고 각종 케이블 연소시 발생하는 유독가스 및 연기에 의해 공동구 내에 진입하여 진압하기가 힘들다. 따라서 화재발생시 막대한 재산피해 및 통신두절 등 국가의 중추신경이 마비됨은 물론 시민불편사항을 초래하게 된다. 따라서 본 논문은 지금까지 발생 되어온 국내,외 공동구 화재사례에서 화재발생의 주요원인으로 전기공사로 인한 합선 및 가연성케이블에 의한 열화접촉으로 화재가 발생하는 것이 대다수를 차지하고 있음에 착안하여 실제 공동구 모형을 제작하고 화재를 재현함으로서 과학적으로 화재의 성상을 분석하는데 그 목적이 있다. 화재실험은 지하공동구 내에 정온식 감지선형 감지기(Line type fixed temperature detector), 방화문(Fire door), 연결살수설비(Connection deluge set), 및 환기설비를 설치하고, 송 배전케이블은 일정구간 내화(Fireproof)도료로 도장하며, 난방관은 내화 피복된 상태에서 실험하였다. 그 결과 Type II의 경우 최고온도가 $932^{\circ}C$로 측정되었고, 일정한 온도에서 정온식감지선형감지기가 화재위치를 정확하게 수신반에 표시되었다. 그리고 Type III의 경우인 송 배전케이블은 일정구간 내화도료로 도장한 것은 내화성능이 없는 것으로 나타났고, 내화피복(Fireproof covered)된 난방관은 약 30분 정도의 내화성능이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 화재뮬레이션 결과는 실물화재시험시의 화재하중(Fire load)을 입력하여 실시한 결과로서 최고온도가 $943^{\circ}C$로 실물화재실험시의 $932^{\circ}C$와 거의 일치 하였다. 따라서 공동구 화재하중만으로 화재시뮬레이션을 실시하여 화재성상에 대한 예측이 가능한 것으로 판단되며 시뮬레이션으로 얻은 열방출률(Heat release rate), 연기층의 높이, 산소(O2), 일산화탄소(CO), 이산화탄소(CO2)의 농도 등의 결과 값들은 실제 화재실험시의 값으로 적용시킬 수 있는 것으로 판단된다. 향후 본 연구에서 구축한 국내 지하공동구 화재사고에 대한 실험자료 및 매년 지속적으로 화재사례들을 분석하여 축적하고 법 규정 및 관리 메뉴얼 등을 보완함으로써 국내 지하공동구 화재사고에 대한 보다 신뢰성 있는 정보를 제공해 줄 수 있을 것이며, 효과적이고 체계적으로 지하공동구의 신설 및 유지 관리 보수에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

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