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Smoke Control in a Subway Station Platform with Screen Doors - Based on Busan Subway Line 3 -  

Park, Woe-Chul (부경대학교 공과대학 안전공학부)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.20, no.1, 2006 , pp. 50-54 More about this Journal
Abstract
A fire in a subway station platform, completely isolated by screen doors, was numerically simulated to investigate problems in smoke control and find their countermeasures. A part of the platform, $40m{\times}5m$ floor and 3 m high, and a fire of 1 MW were considered, and the smoke extraction system was assumed to start operation at the onset of the fire. For three different values of the exhaust air flow rate, 0.1, 2, and $4m^3/min-m^2$, the distributions of temperature, concentrations of soot and carbon monoxide, and those of visibility were compared. The time-variations of the number of randomly distributed particles in the space were also investigated for the air flow rates to see the efficiency in smoke control. It was shown that smoke control takes time by lack of air supply. It was also confirmed that air supply from the railway to the platform at emergency is needed so that smoke is able to be controlled efficiently, and that opening the doors at the both ends of the platform is desirable until the fire is completely extinguished.
Keywords
Subway station platform; Screen door; Smoke control; Numerical simulations;
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