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http://dx.doi.org/10.9726/kspse.2017.21.3.019

A Study on the Fire Hazard and Improvement Schemes of a Rack-type Automatic Warehouse  

Lee, You-Sik (Yoo Il Bang Jae Engineering Co., Ltd.)
Ahn, Young-Chull (Department of Architectural Engineering, Pusan National University)
Nam, Yu-Jin (Department of Architectural Engineering, Pusan National University)
You, Dong-Kyun (Busan Gemjeong Fire Station)
Kwark, Ji-Hyun (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
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Journal of Power System Engineering / v.21, no.3, 2017 , pp. 19-29 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, there has been increased demand for automatic warehouses with racks which are installed inside the warehouses to allow vertical loading of products or goods for space efficiency. Therefore considerations about fire hazards are extremely necessary. In this study, the fire hazard of automatic warehouse with racks was analyzed in the view of fire prevention engineering. It appeared its fire hazard was extremely high because of the undefined fire zones, the windowless floor, the large volume, the difficulty of extinguishment and the smoke emission in the view of building itself, and because of the fire hazard of load itself, the high fire load, and the chimney effect in the view of fire.
Keywords
Rack-type Warehouse; Automatic Warehouse; Fire Protection Engineering; Fire Dangerousness;
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