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http://dx.doi.org/10.9711/KTAJ.2018.20.1.001

Experimental study on applicability of Air-Curtain system in train fire at subsea tunnel rescue station  

Park, Byoung-Jik (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
Shin, Hyun-Jun (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
Yoo, Yong-Ho (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
Park, Jin-Ouk (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
Kim, Hwi-Seong (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
Kim, Yang-Kyun (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
Publication Information
Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association / v.20, no.1, 2018 , pp. 1-9 More about this Journal
Abstract
Visibility is very poor in tunnel fire because of confined space where the fire may easily lead to the mass casuality incident because of fast smoke spread. In this test, air curtain and the fan were installed at rescue station in a bid to make use of rescue station in safe way during the train fire in undersea tunnel and a full-scale fire test was conducted to identify the applicability of air curtain system. Air curtain system was installed at a real rescue station and the test was continued for 2 minutes till heptane which was used as fire source was completely burned out. When air curtain was working, difference in temperature between inside and outside the platform was $160^{\circ}C$ and carbon monoxide measured inside the platform was less than the case of no air curtain system by 160 ppm. Thus a full-scale fire test demonstrated that the air curtain system installed at rescue station in undersea tunnel was able to effectively block the heat and smoke generated from the fire.
Keywords
Tunnel fire; Local smoke control facilities; Air-Curtain system; Subsea tunnel; Smoke spread prevention;
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