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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2019.33.5.055

Improvement of Fire Detection in Rack-type Warehouses using FDS  

Choi, Ki-Ok (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
Park, Moon-Woo (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
Choi, Don-Mook (Dept. of Building Equipment System & Fire Protection Eng. Gachon Univ.)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.33, no.5, 2019 , pp. 55-60 More about this Journal
Abstract
The occurrence of fire in rack-type warehouses may either lead to the warehouses getting entirely burned up or collapsing. This can be attrubuted to the high height of rack-type warehouses, in which combustibles are generally vertically stacked. These characteristics make it difficult to detect a fire early; because detectors are installed on the ceiling, these fires cannot be extinguished at an early stage. In this study, the flow of heat and smoke generated by a fire in a rack-type warehouse was analyzed using a fire dynamic simulator. Through this analysis, the optimal installation conditions of fire detectors for the early detection of fire in rack-type warehouses were confirmed. The analysis results confirmed that complex detection of heat and smoke is required for the early detection of fire in rack type warehouses. Furthermore, it was found that fixed temperature detectors are not suitable for these warehouses, resulting in the need to install heat-smoke hybrid detectors at every three rack levels.
Keywords
Rack; Warehouse; Fire detector; Early detection; FDS;
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