• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.341-347
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• 2010

The performance of water spray system installed to reduce risks of tunnel fire is investigated by a real tunnel fire test. In case of A class fire, Pool fire, and car fire, the nozzle of water spray has had a marvelous effect to reduce the temperature of hot smoke. And it is verified to have remarkable cooling effects when there is the air flow in a tunnel. Though this results, water spray system will be able to prevent a fire jump to decrease the air temperature in a tunnel and to protect tunnel facilities by the fire control.

• Fire Protection Technology
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• s.23
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• pp.34-38
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• 1997

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.397-402
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• 2002

노즐을 통하여 미세한 물 입자를 뿜어내어 화재를 진압하는 방식은 1930년대부터 응용되어왔지만 하론이 소화 물질로서 개발되어 널리 사용됨에 따라 물분무에 대한 개발이 중단되었다. 그러나 몬트리올 환경회의에 의해 하론이 오존층 파괴 물질로 사용이 제한됨에 따라 대체 소화물질로서 1990년대에 미세 물분무에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되기 시작하였으며 최근 IMO(세계 해사기구)에서는 2003년부터 건조되는 선박의 소화설비로서 물분무 노즐 사용을 의무화하기 시작했다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.229-229
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 미세 물분무 노즐의 소화성능을 분석하기 위해 유량계수, 방사거리, 방사각도, 그리고 작동압력에 따라 분사되는 물입자 크기를 측정하였다. 이를 위해서 이중 구조의 미세 물분무 노즐 LPN-61과 LPN-63을 제작하였으며, 미분무 소화설비를 구성하여 이중구조 노즐의 형상에 따라서 유동특성을 정량화하였다. 그 결과 LPN-61은 유량계수 5.116, 방사각 $120^{\circ}{\sim}125^{\circ}$로 작동압력이 $4kgf/cm^2$에서 $10kgf/cm^2$까지 증가함에 따라서 SMD는 $127{\mu}m$정도에서 $88{\mu}m$까지 입자 크기가 감소하였으며, LPN-63은 유량계수 5.121, 방사각도 $120^{\circ}{\sim}125^{\circ}$로 동일한 작동압력 범위에서 SMD는 $108{\mu}m$에서 $80{\mu}m$까지 감소하는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.419-429
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• 2016

In a bid to avoid the economic loss resulting from traffic jam in urban area, a deep underground road at 40 m depth has been considered and the first class disaster prevention facilities shall be applied according to domestic guideline. Automatic-monitoring fire extinguishing system designed to use for fire fighting has been widely applied at home and abroad. Recently development and commercialization through theoretical and experimental research to apply to road/railroad sector have been underway. Based on such performance of automatic fire extinguishing system, technical/economic analysis of existing water spray systems was conducted and as a result, it has demonstrated the superiority in terms of fire suppression as well as in cost efficiency. Then to commercialize this system, more diverse studies that will incorporate the characteristics of domestic tunnels are needed and should the system be promoted through institutional improvement, it's expected to become one of the advanced nations with own original technology in a life safety system industry throughout the world.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

Spray density of the water spray system which is installed in long road tunnels and hazardous vehicle tunnels is applied without proper performance assessment process. In this study, the requirements of Spray Density Guidelines at the standard pressure is investigated through spray test set up the nozzle of a water spray system in a simulated road tunnel. The results showed that all the nozzles used in the test area did not meet the requirements of the Guidelines. The absence of performance test codes and inspection process on the nozzle at real scale in tunnels may have caused this practice. Therefore, it is suggested that the performance test regulations of the nozzle on the water spray system is established in order to properly assess the system performance.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.837-847
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• 2019

Korea's long underground roads are being promoted around the metropolitan city center to realize advanced transportation networks. Many disaster prevention facilities are applied to secure fire safety of the closed and long-distance underground roads. As the facility response and fire suppression subjects are unclear, additional human and material damages from fire spread are inevitable. Therefore, in this study, we developed a remote automatic fire extinguishing system that uses the fire extinguishing water inside the fire hydrant to monitor the CCTV in the management room and sprays it directly to the fire site through automatic control. The design application method was studied through the performance improvement that can be put into practical use.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.218-221
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• 2008

The real scale fire suppression test inside a road tunnel were carried out for water spray systems. The dimension of the tunnel is 7.5m in height and 11.6m in width. 3 different water spray nozzle systems with low operating pressure less than 3.5 bar were used in the experiment. Two types of fires were tested. One is a $1.4m^2$ heptane pool fire and the other is a 2000CC passenger car fire. From the experiment, the spray densities of tested systems were about $6.0\;l/min/m^2$ which is currunt domestic guideline. Although all the systems cannot extinguish the tested fires, it was found that they can reduce the tunnel temperature and have a capability to control and suppress the tested fire.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2016

In cars, the amount of combustibles, such as plastics, textiles, etc., have increased dramatically to improve the fuel efficiency of cars by reducing the gross vehicle weight according to the increases in an oil price and to reduce environmental problems. One or two cars were involved in a parking lot fire prior to the mid-2000 s. On the other hand, there were many parking lot fires where the entire car was destroyed due to increasing the use of plastics. In this study, the quantity of combustibles in a car was 316.2 kg over a total weight 1935 kg. This is 16.34% of total weight and 10 times greater than that three decades earlier. When a sprinkler is installed as a parking lot fire protection system as a substitute for water spray, the water discharge of the sprinkler must maintain the original density of water spray, $20lpm/m^2$. In addition, the use of a hose reel $CO_2$ system at pilotis parking lots must be prohibited because the hose reel $CO_2$ system has no adaptability for a car fire. Instead, this study proposes foam, dry powder, loaded stream systems be used in parking lot fire suppression systems.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.51-56
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• 2011

The full-scale experiments are carried out to investigate the fire suppression characteristics of water-based fire fighting systems in a road tunnel. Applied systems are the low-pressure water spray system at 3.5 bar and the high-pressure water mist system at 60 bar. The water flow rate of the high-pressure system is one sixth only of the water spray system. A passenger car and a heptane fuel pan with area of $1.4m^2$ are used as fire sources. A blower system is installed at the tunnel exit to realize the longitudinal ventilation conditions (0.9~3.8 m/s) in the tunnel. Temperatures from the fire source to the down-stream direction are measured by K-type thermocouple trees. The experimental results show that the cooling effect of the high pressure water mist system in the test conditions were equivalent to that of the low pressure water spray system for B-class fire.