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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2019.33.2.056

A Study on a PCB Manufacturing Plant's Fire Risk Assessment due to the Mitigation of Fire Protection Zone and an Improvement Way through Estimation of Sprinkler Demand Water Flow Rate

Oh, Chan-Wook (Graduate School, Pukyung National University)
Oh, Ryun-Seok (Graduate School, Pukyung National University)
Choi, Jun-Ho (Department of Fire Protection Engineering, Pukyung National University)

Publication Information

Fire Science and Engineering / v.33, no.2, 2019 , pp. 56-62 More about this Journal

Abstract

A sprinkler is a fire extinguishing equipment installed in a protected area where a detector or head detects a fire and automatically puts out the fire. However, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's "Regulations on Building Evacuation and Fire Protection Standards, etc." stipulate that fire compartment area should be reduced to three times by installing sprinkler facilities in the case of factories and warehouses. In this study, fire hazard was analyzed for a real PCB factory which mitigated the fire protection zone by sprinkler installation, and the head opening characteristics of sprinkler facilities through computer simulation, installation standards of sprinkler facilities, thermal performance, operating range, and the amount of water sprayed to identify the problems of operation of sprinkler facilities in case of fire, and to suggest the grounds such as required sprinkling flow rate for system improvement.

Keywords

Sprinkler; Manufactory plant; Factory; Required sprinkler water flow; Fire simulation; Numerical calculation;

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