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An experimental study on the smoke-spread region before reaching the critical velocity for the case of fires in tunnels employing longitudinal ventilation system  

Ki, Young-Min (인하대학교 자원공학과)
Yoon, Sung-Wook ((주)GS건설 기술본부 연구개발팀)
Yoon, Chan-Hoon (인하대학교 환경토목공학부)
Kim, Jin (인하대학교 환경토목공학부)
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Tunnel and Underground Space / v.16, no.6, 2006 , pp. 526-535 More about this Journal
Abstract
An experimental study was carried out on a reduced scale tunnel model to grasp the behavioral feature of fire-induced smoke in the long tunnels. Based on Froude modeling, the 1/50 scaled tunnel model (20 m long) was constructed by acrylic tubes and paraffin gas was released inside the tunnel to simulate the 20 MW fire-induced smoke. me test results show, that after approximately 2 minutes of fire generation, was descended from the tunnel ceiling through the decrease of buoyancy, then it was symmetrically propagated about 90 meters for 4 minutes before jet fans were operated. The smoke was effectively controlled when the jet fans were operated and an air stream velocity was getting closed to reach a critical velocity (the minimum air velocity that requires to suppress the smoke spreading against the longitudinal ventilation flow during the tunnel fire situations). It was also found out that a range of smoke was spreaded about 3 meters from the origin of fire but the range was not propagated to the escape direction anymore. The early stage of the In operation, however, showed that the smoke was hardly controlled. It means that the operation of emergency ventilation system has many dangerous factors such as an intercepting breathing zone.
Keywords
Reduced scale tunnel model; Smoke; jet fan; Critical velocity;
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