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A Comparative Study on the Toxicity Evaluation for Fire Smoke by FDS

FDS를 이용한 화재시 연소가스의 독성평가에 관한 비교 연구

  • Jeong, Beom Jin (Occupational Safety & Health Research Institute, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency) ;
  • Lee, Keun Won (Occupational Safety & Health Research Institute, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency)
  • 정범진 (한국산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원) ;
  • 이근원 (한국산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원)
  • Received : 2014.11.27
  • Accepted : 2015.02.18
  • Published : 2015.02.28

Abstract

FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) is the most widely used computational fluid dynamics software in the fire safety engineering community, and it is applicable to various evaluations of fire growth and its effects. This study made use of a range of outputs from FDS simulation to predict FED (Fractional Effective Concentration) and FEC (Fractional Effective Concentration) levels which are often adopted to evaluate toxicity of fire smoke. As it is not possible to calculate these values directly from outputs of FDS, it was necessary to produce them by means of additional calculation procedures incorporating results of evacuation simulation. In this study, the latest version of FDS, which was recently updated in November 2013, was utilized for the purpose of quantitative comparison with the old version of FDS. As a result, it was found that they make about 10 percent difference on average in predicting FED and FEC levels for the cable fire case study.

FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator)는 화재안전공학 분야에서 가장 널리 사용되는 전산유체역학 소프트웨어로서 화재의 성장과 영향에 대한 다양한 평가에 응용될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 화재시 발생하는 연소가스의 독성을 평가할 수 있는 유효복용분량 (Fractional Effective Dose, FED)와 유효부분농도 (Fractional Effective Concentration, FEC) 수준을 예측하기 위하여 FDS 시뮬레이션에서 얻어진 다양한 결과를 활용하였다. 그러나 FDS에서 기본적으로 제공하는 출력값으로는 이러한 값을 직접적으로 구할 수 없으므로, 피난 시뮬레이션에서 얻어진 결과를 결부시켜 별도의 계산과정을 통하여 FED와 FEC 수준을 계산하였다. 특히, 2013년 11월에 FDS의 버전이 업데이트된 바 있어 본 연구에서는 동일한 조건에 대하여 FDS의 구버전과 신버전을 비교하여 시뮬레이션 하였으며, 그 결과 FED, FEC값에 있어서 두 버전사이에 평균 약 10%의 차이가 발생함을 확인 할 수 있었다.

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