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Full-scale Fire Suppression Test for Application of Water Mist System in Road Tunnel  

Han, Yong-Shik (한국기계연구원)
Choi, Byung-Il (한국기계연구원)
Kim, Myung-Bae (한국기계연구원)
Lee, Yu-Whan (한국기계연구원)
So, Soo-Hyun (경일대학교)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.25, no.3, 2011 , pp. 51-56 More about this Journal
Abstract
The full-scale experiments are carried out to investigate the fire suppression characteristics of water-based fire fighting systems in a road tunnel. Applied systems are the low-pressure water spray system at 3.5 bar and the high-pressure water mist system at 60 bar. The water flow rate of the high-pressure system is one sixth only of the water spray system. A passenger car and a heptane fuel pan with area of $1.4m^2$ are used as fire sources. A blower system is installed at the tunnel exit to realize the longitudinal ventilation conditions (0.9~3.8 m/s) in the tunnel. Temperatures from the fire source to the down-stream direction are measured by K-type thermocouple trees. The experimental results show that the cooling effect of the high pressure water mist system in the test conditions were equivalent to that of the low pressure water spray system for B-class fire.
Keywords
Fire suppression; Water mist system; Road tunnel; Full-scale test; Safety;
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