• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.147-155
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• 2020

This paper presents a study on the development of a fire extinguishing agent and extinguishing system for an energy storage system (ESS) fire. The fire extinguishing agent designed to extinguish an ESS fire is a highly permeable fire extinguisher that reduces the surface tension and viscosity while bringing about cooling action. This is the main extinguishing effect of this type of wetting agent, which displays the characteristics of fire extinguishing agents used for penetrating the battery cells inside the ESS module. For the fire extinguishing system, a local application system was designed to suppress fire on a rack-by-rack basis. A 360° rotating nozzle was inserted into the rear hall of the ESS module, and general nozzles were installed in the rack to maximize the fire extinguishing effect. The fire extinguishing agent was strongly discharged by virtue of the gas release pressure. Experiments on fire suppression performance with ESS module 1 unit and module 3 units showed that all visible flames were extinguished in 8 s and 9 s, respectively, by the fire extinguishing agent. In addition, based on confirming reignition for 600 s after the fire extinguishing agent was exhausted, it was confirmed that the ESS fire was completely extinguished without reignition in all fire suppression performance experiments.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.4 no.3 s.14
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• pp.83-87
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• 2004

In underground culvert are established main and basic facilities for electric power, communication, gas and heating pipe etc. In the future the use of underground culvert will be enlarged and the peril of fire will be increased. Thus it is necessary to make a general plan to prevent fire. The skills to prevent fire in underground culvert will be accumulated by the spray distribution of the nozzle and domestic skills in fire fighting will be upgraded. It will also contribute to the construction of common small fire fighting system suitable to the domestic surrounding and the growth of domestic skills for fire fighting and disaster prevention.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.506-509
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• 2011

압축공기 포는 공기포혼합기를 사용하여 약제와 물 그리고 압축공기를 혼합하여 방출하는 방식으로, 물의 확보가 곤란한 장소라도 소화 효율을 높이는 시스템으로서 주목되고 있으며, 현재 해외 선진국에서는 이미 개발되어 상용화 되어있다. 본 연구에서는 국제적 기준에 따른 압축공기포소화설비의 성능평가시험을 위해 미국, 캐나다 등에서 채택한 UL-162 시험방법을 적용하여 시험을 수행하였으며, 그 결과 기존의 포소화시스템과 압축공기포소화시스템의 성능비교시험을 통해 압축공기포가 기존의 포소화방식 보다 소화성능이 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.291-294
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• 2006

본 연구는 화재로부터 인명과 재산을 보호하기 위한 자동 소화 시스템으로서 마이컴을 사용하여 고신뢰성, 고정밀도, DIGITAL화를 추구하는 시스템을 개발 하였다. 기존의 소화 방제 시스템들은 스프링클러를 사용하여 물로 화재를 진압하고 있으며 이러한 시스템은 비용이 많이 들고 대량의 물을 사용하고 있기 때문에 수손피해($80{\sim}120{\ell}/min$)가 있고 대용량 펌프 및 $47,000{\ell}$의 저장시설이 필요하다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 본 시스템은 이산화탄소($CO_2$ 가스나 하론1301 가스 또는 질소 가스를 분사하여 대기 중의 산소를 희석시키거나 질소의 양을 증가시키는 방법으로 화재를 진압하는 시스템을 개발 하였다. 개발된 시스템은 고가의 장비 즉, 전산실, 통신기기실, 전기실, 발전기실, 케이블실, 제어실, 필름 보관실 등에 사용되어 장비를 보호하고 인명의 피해를 최소화하는데 사용될 것 있다.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.1-17
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• 2000

This paper shows the institutional limits of technological innovation at the railway package service, that is the limits of introducing the package express system. The railway package service, owned by government and operated by D company, has been suffered severe operating loss since early 1990's. The package express system supported by information network and co-working with inner city quick service might be an solution for the railway package service. But there are several obstacles such as labor union and the rigidities of the Korean National Railroad of government agency.

• Environmental engineer
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• v.24 s.256
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• pp.56-60
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• 2007

• Journal of Korean Institute of Fire Science & Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.10-18
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• 2000

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.33-39
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• 2017

Composite panel refers to the particular plywood produced in a way of stacking the different kinds of material in sandwich form and adhering them using adhesives and is widely used as building material for its constructability and cost efficiency. But as the surface is finished with steel plate, fire extinguishing agent cannot reach to the core material because of such steel plate on surface which causes the difficulties in suppressing the fire as well as in fire-fighting activities due to collapse. This study, to deal with such problem, is intended to set the fire pipe in core material to prevent the fire from spreading and in a bid to achieve this using minimized fire water, water supply test device was fabricated to estimate the required water flow of fire extinguisher and consequently, optimal water flow (0.5 L/min) was determined through a full-scale fire test.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.401-410
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• 2012

The study verified the extinguishing performance of the low pressure water-mist system, which is used to extinguish fire at domestic wooden architecture, through a fire test. Made of inflammable materials, a wooden house is vulnerable to fire, and the size of fire may vary from the early stage in case of arson. With the discharging pressure of 8 bar and the flow rate of 35 lpm, the low pressure water-mist nozzle used in the experiment has considerable discharging amount compared to other water-mist nozzles. The extinguishing performance was tested based on the size of fire and architecture. Test results demonstrated that the extinguishing performance was not affected by the size of a house, but decreased significantly when the size of fire was above unit 1. Taking into account that the environment of actual wooden cultural properties is more vulnerable than that of the experiment model, sufficient investigation on extinguishing performance is required to apply the water-mist extinguishing system to wooden architecture.

• Bulletin of the Korean Institute for Industrial Safety
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 2001

건물에 고정적으로 설치되어서 초기에 화재를 자동으로 감지하여 화재의 확산을 제어하거나 소화를 하는 기능을 가진 시스템 중에 가장 널리 쓰여지고 있는 것이 스프링클러시스템이다. 스프링클러시스템은 1723년 영국의 Ambrose Godfrey에 의하여 개발되었는데 이때는 단순히 물통과 도화선으로 구성되어 화재시 화염이 도화선에 인화되면 화약이 폭발하여 물통의 물이 방출되어 소화되는 간이설비였다. 그 후 계속 개발되어 1852년에 오늘날과 유사한 스프링클러시스템이 영국에서 개발되었다. 자동스프링클러헤드는 1864년에 영국의 Stuart Harrison에 의해서 발명되었으나 실용화되지 못하였고 1874년 미국의 Henry Parmelee에 의해서 오늘날과 같은 자동스프링클러헤드가 개발되고 1878년 Providence Steam & Gas(현재의 Grinnell)사에서 생산하여 실용화되었으며 1885년 건식 시스템이 개발되어 동결 문제가 근본적으로 해결되면서 오늘날의 현대적인 스프링클러설비에 이르게 되었다.(중략)