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Improvement of Fire Detection in Rack-type Warehouses using FDS

FDS를 이용한 랙크식 창고의 화재감지 개선에 관한 연구

  • Choi, Ki-Ok (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea) ;
  • Park, Moon-Woo (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea) ;
  • Choi, Don-Mook (Dept. of Building Equipment System & Fire Protection Eng. Gachon Univ.)
  • 최기옥 (한국화재보험협회 부설 방재시험연구원) ;
  • 박문우 (한국화재보험협회 부설 방재시험연구원) ;
  • 최돈묵 (가천대학교 설비.소방공학과)
  • Received : 2019.08.23
  • Accepted : 2019.09.17
  • Published : 2019.10.31

Abstract

The occurrence of fire in rack-type warehouses may either lead to the warehouses getting entirely burned up or collapsing. This can be attrubuted to the high height of rack-type warehouses, in which combustibles are generally vertically stacked. These characteristics make it difficult to detect a fire early; because detectors are installed on the ceiling, these fires cannot be extinguished at an early stage. In this study, the flow of heat and smoke generated by a fire in a rack-type warehouse was analyzed using a fire dynamic simulator. Through this analysis, the optimal installation conditions of fire detectors for the early detection of fire in rack-type warehouses were confirmed. The analysis results confirmed that complex detection of heat and smoke is required for the early detection of fire in rack type warehouses. Furthermore, it was found that fixed temperature detectors are not suitable for these warehouses, resulting in the need to install heat-smoke hybrid detectors at every three rack levels.

랙크식 창고에서 화재가 발생되는 경우 건물이 전소되거나 붕괴되는 상태까지 발생된다. 이러한 현상이 발생되는 이유는 랙크식 창고가 층고가 높고, 물품을 수직으로 적재하고 있어 화재 시 천장에 설치되어 있는 감지기에 의한 조기감지가 어렵고, 그로 인하여 초기에 소화하지 못하기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 수치해석 프로그램인 Fire dynamic simulator (FDS)를 이용하여 랙크식 창고 내에서 화재 시 발생되는 열과 연기의 유동을 분석하였다. 이러한 분석을 통하여 랙크식 창고 내에서 조기 화재감지를 위한 화재감지기의 최적 설치조건을 확인하였다. 그 결과 랙크식 창고에서 조기 화재감지를 위하여 열과 연기의 복합적인 감지가 필요하며, 복합형 감지기를 랙크의 3 level 마다 설치해야 하며, 정온식 감지기는 랙크식 창고에 적합하지 않은 것을 알 수 있었다.

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