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An Experimental Study on the Fire Hazards in Electric Heater  

Hong, Sung-Ho (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
Lee, Bock-Young (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
Park, Sang-Tae (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
Yu, Hyun-Jong (Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.22, no.2, 2007 , pp. 36-40 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study presents on the analysis fire hazards of electric heater. In order to analyze fire hazards fire experiment is conducted. The fire experiment is conducted to simulate normal condition and abnormal condition. The abnormal condition experiment is simulated in which combustibles are placed near by electric heater. Vertical burning test(UL 94) is conducted for the fire retardant experiment. The results show that fire hazard is high in case of abnormal condition. And Material of electric heater has not fire retardant performance. In this paper, we suggest to add temperature fuse in electric heater for reducing fire hazard.
Keywords
electric fire; electric heater; fire hazard;
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