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Development of a Computer Program to Evaluate Smoke Volume Flow rate and Temperature for Tunnel Fires (터널 화재시 연기발생량 및 온도 예측 프로그램 개발)

  • Park, Won-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.506-510
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    • 2007
  • Smoke temperature and volume flow rate in a tunnel fire are calculated. To obtain realistic results, enthalpy of smoke which composites combustion gases and entrainment air is calculated from curvefit polynomials by temperature. A user-friendly computer program for them is also developed. This program might be used for a good engineering tool in design of fire safety and mock/reduced-scale fire tests in a tunnel.

A Study on Fire Characteristics in a Tall and Narrow Atrium

  • Sugawa, Osami;Takahashi, Wataru;Ohtake, Masanori;Satoh, Hiroomi
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 1997.11a
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    • pp.353-360
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    • 1997
  • The modeling on fire safety assessment for a tall and narrow atrium is carried out using a reduced and full scale atrium models based on the performances of flow behavior in and near comer fire and smoke ventilation system. The comer (or wall) effects on the flame behavior considering air entrainment into a flame was evaluated theoretically and experimentally. Temperature, upward velocity, inlet air velocity, and pressure difference between the atrium space and atmosphere were measured systematically in a reduced scale model. The performance of the modeling to estimate temperature rise and natural air ventilation volume was verified based on the experimental results. Smoke filling rate from a model fire source set at the center of a tall and narrow atrium is fastest in the other cases in which fire source set in or near a corner. This suggested that the centering of the fire source is acceptable as the fire source position to assess the fire safety design for a tall and narrow atrium.

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Modeling of Atomization Under Flash Boiling Conditions

  • Zeng, Yangbing;Lee, Chia-Fon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.44-51
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents an atomization model for sprays under flash boiling conditions. The atomization is represented by the secondary breakup of a bubble/droplet system, and the breakup is considered as the results of two competing mechanisms, aerodynamic force and bubble growth. The model was applied to predict the atomization of a hollow-cone spray from pintle injector under flash boiling conditions. In the regimes this study considered, sprays are atomized by bubble growth, which produces smaller SMD#s than aerodynamic forces alone. With decreasing ambient pressures, the spray thickness, fuel vaporization rate and vapor radial penetration increases, and the drop size decreases. With increasing the fuel and ambient temperatures to some extent, the effect of flash boiling and air entrainment completely change the spray pattern.

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A Study on the Characteristics of the Liquid-gas Ejector (Liguid-gas Ejector의 구동성능 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Gi-Tae;Jin, Zhen-Hua;Chung, Han-Shik;Jeong, Hyo-Min
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.1047-1052
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    • 2008
  • The aim of this paper is that studies on the characteristics of the liquid-gas ejector. Could get data about various model using numerical analysis. Compare and analyze result that get by an experiment and numerical analysis. And studied Characteristics of the ejector. In this paper, Numerical analysis model is gotten divided according to each Throat ratio as three types. Each throat ratio is 0, 4 and 7.5. According to the result that analyze basic model, pressure became lower causing the volume flow rate increase. In CFD studies, Fixed volume flow rate by these result and analyzed ejector performance. As a result, there was no change of pressure to Throat's Enterance, and pressure became low while pass the throat. Since, pressure recovered while passing diffuser. The outer flow velocity did not change greatly to change of volume flow rate. This research expects that is utilized to data for performance elevation hereafter.

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Investigation of the Three-Dimensional Turbulent Flow Fields of the Gas Swirl Burner with a Cone Type Baffle Plate(I)

  • Kim, Jang-kweon
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.7
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    • pp.895-905
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    • 2001
  • This paper presents vector fields, three dimensional mean velocities, turbulent intensities, turbulent kinetic energy and Reynolds shear stresses measured in the X-Y plane of the gas swirl burner with a cone type baffle plate by using an X-type hot-wire probe. This experiment is carried out at the flow rates of 350 and 450ℓ/min which are equivalent to the combustion air flow rate necessary to release 15,000 kcal/hr in a gas furnace. The results show that the maximum axial mean velocity component exists around the narrow slits situated radially on the edge of a burner. Therefore, there is some entrainment of ambient air in the outer region of a burner. The maximum values of turbulent intensities occur around the narrow slits and in front of a burner up to X/R=1.5. Moreover, the turbulent intensity components show a relatively large value in the inner region due to the flow diffusion and mixing processes between the inclined baffle plate and the swirl vane. Consequently, the combustion reaction is expected to occur actively near these regions.

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The Characteristic Modes and Structures of Bluff-Body Stabilized Flames in Supersonic Coflow Air

  • Kim, Ji-Ho;Yoon, Young-Bin;Park, Chul-Woung;Hahn, Jae-Won
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.386-397
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    • 2012
  • The stability and structure of bluff-body stabilized hydrogen flames were investigated numerically and experimentally. The velocity of coflowing air was varied from subsonic velocity to a supersonic velocity of Mach 1.8. OH PLIF images and Schlieren images were used for analysis. Flame regimes were used to classify the characteristic flame modes according to the variation of the fuel-air velocity ratio, into jet-like flame, central-jet-dominated flame, and recirculation zone flame. Stability curves were drawn to find the blowout regimes and to show the improvement in flame stability with increasing lip thickness of the fuel tube, which acts as a bluff-body. These curves collapse to a single line when the blowout curves are normalized by the size of the bluff-body. The variation of flame length with the increase in air flow rate was also investigated. In the subsonic coflow condition, the flame length decreased significantly, but in the supersonic coflow condition, the flame length increased slowly and finally reached a near-constant value. This phenomenon is attributed to the air-entrainment of subsonic flow and the compressibility effect of supersonic flow. The closed-tip recirculation zone flames in supersonic coflow had a reacting core in the partially premixed zone, where the fuel jet lost its momentum due to the high-pressure zone and followed the recirculation zone; this behavior resulted in the long characteristic time for the fuel-air mixing.

Bottom Ash on the Application for Use as Fine Aggregate of Concrete (바텀 애시를 콘크리트 잔골재로 사용하기 위한 활용성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Seong-Soo;Lee, Jeong-Bae;Park, Seung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.173-179
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    • 2014
  • This is an experimental study for recycling coal ash left over from coal use as a potential fine aggregate in concrete. Coal ash is generally divided into either fly ash or bottom ash. Fly ash has been utilized as a substitution material for cement in concrete mixes. On the other hand, bottom ash has the problem of low recycling rates, and thus it has been primarily reclaimed. This study partially substituted fine concrete aggregates with bottom ash to increase its application rate and therefore its recycling rate; its suitability for this purpose was confirmed. The concrete's workability dropped noticeably with increasing bottom ash content when a fixed water-cement ratio of concrete mix was used. Thus, concrete mixes with higher ratio levels are required. To address this problem, concrete was mixed using a polycarboxylate high-range water reducing agent. The fluidity and air entrainment immediately after mixing the concrete and 1 h after mixing were measured, thereby replicating the time concrete is placed in the field when produced either in a ready-mixed concrete or in a batch plant. As a result of this research, the workability and air entrainment were maintained 1 h after mixing for a concrete mixture with approximately 30% of its fine concrete aggregates substituted with the bottom ash. A slight drop in compression strength was seen; however, this confirmed that potential of using bottom ash as a fine aggregate in concrete.

Combustion Characteristics of Pool and Whirl Fire on Methanol by Height of Fire Source using the Small Scale (화점높이 변화에 따른 메탄올의 소규모 Pool 및 Whirl Fire의 연소특성)

  • Park, Hyung-Ju
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.73-78
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    • 2012
  • This study is intended to understand flame behavior of pool and whirl fire by height of fire source. Liquid fuel was methanol which is used in many studies for pool and whirl fire. Size of vessel was $100{\times}100{\times}50$ and the vessel was made by stainless steel. Combustion time, mass loss rate, flame temperature, flame height and air entrainment rate from the outside to flame were measured, and flame behavior was visualized with video camera. Based on the experiment, it was found that combustion characteristics by height of fire source got a more effect on whirl fire than pool fire.

Study on Indoor Flow According to Vane Angle of Square Ceiling Type Louver Diffuser (사각 천장형 루버 디퓨저의 토출 각도에 따른 실내유동에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Heon-Deock;Lee, Dae-Hui;Lee, Jin-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.36 no.7
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    • pp.683-687
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this paper is to numerically study the characteristics of the indoor air flow of a square ceiling type diffuser according to the vane angle and flow rate. The CFX of ANSYS 13.0 was used for the CFD tool. The size of the room is $6m(X){\times}6m(Y){\times}2.7m(Z)$. The exhaust diffuser was positioned diagonally to the supply diffuser. This diffuser was designed to have many holes, so the air supply had long throw patterns with low velocity decay. The characteristics of the indoor air flow was studied at volume flow rates of 5.1 CMM and 7.4 CMM, and a vane angle from $30^{\circ}$ to $60^{\circ}$, every $10^{\circ}$.

Effects of Animal Additives on the Fundamental Properties of Mortar and Concrete (동물성 첨가제가 모르타르 및 콘크리트의 기초 물성에 미치는 영향)

  • Song, Jin-Woo;Moon, Seung-Kwon
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2012
  • The study was conducted to determine the effects of adding pig blood as an admixture to both mortar and concrete. The mortar tests included the determination of its unit weight, flow and its compressive strength. Moreover, the concrete test includes the determination of air content, slump, bleeding, setting time compressive strength and freeze-thaw resistance of the material. As the test result, the utilization of pig blood, as an additive to both mortar and concrete mixtures causes air entrainment. The mortar flow increased and both the unit weight and the compressive strength of mortar decreased. As the blood replacement rate increases, the air content decreases over time, the setting and amount of bleeding showed a tendency to decline and reduced compressive strength, and the freeze-thaw resistance of the concrete increased.

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