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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2012.26.5.085

An Empirical Study on the Standard Re-establishment of Water Discharge Performance for the Fire Engine Pump  

Min, Se-Hong (Dept. of Fire & Disaster Protection Engineering, Gachon Univ.)
Kwon, Yong-Joon (Dept. of Fire & Disaster Protection Engineering, Graduate School Environment & Design, Gachon Univ.)
Publication Information
Fire Science and Engineering / v.26, no.5, 2012 , pp. 85-91 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper analyzed firefighting officers' use situations such as the use time, maximum working pressure, hose diameter, etc. of fire pumps at fire sites and carried out various performance tests by pressures, hose diameters and quantities of fire pumps based on its results because the waterproof performance criterion for a fire pump installed in a fire engine is different from the operation situations at the site and is not clearly prescribed. As a result of site survey, the site uses a higher pressure than the standard water discharge pressure (0.85 MPa) or the high-pressure water discharge pressure (1.4 MPa) prescribed by the approval Standard of the fire pump performance on fire truck. In addition, as a result of pump performance test, the discharged water flow rate, water discharge pressure, etc. was measured to be very different from the currently prescribed the approval standard depending on the hose diameter and firefighting nozzle, so the result of this study proposes a new standard.
Keywords
Fire engine pump; Water discharge performance; Fire fighting;
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