• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 할론 1301 및 이산화탄소를 비롯한 가스계소화설비의 성능을 시험하고 평가하기 위한 가장 중요한 핵심 요소인 배관내 약제비율, 관경비 등 소화성능에 영향을 미치는 가스계소화설비의 제한사항 및 성능확보에 필요한 요소에 대하여 연구하였다. 또한 본 연구에서는 관련 국내외 기준 분석 및 국내 가스계소화설비의 성능평가에 관한 인정기준(KFIS 002)에 따른 시스템 성능시험을 실시하고 결과를 비교 분석하였다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.18-23
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• 2014

Foam extinguishing agent is widely used for extinguishing combustible liquid fires. Compared to other foam type extinguishing agents, protein foam has relatively low cost and low toxicity and produces stable foam blanket which is excellent in heat resistance and sealability, despite it has weak fluidity. Therefore the study investigated foaming characteristics followed by various factors affecting the fluidity of the protein foam extinguishing agent. The extinguishing characteristics differentiated by the changes in fluidity were also experimented. Foaming performance was compared by measuring the expansion ratio and the 25% drainage time. Moreover, the 25% drainage time and the extinguishing time was compared. The results showed that the 25% drainage time and the expansion ratio were increased as the pressure of nozzle and the concentration of hydrolyzed protein liquid enlarged. However the foaming and extinguishing performance were not improved when the condition exceeded certain level of pressure and concentration. The fastest fire extinguishing condition was the nozzle pressure 4bar with the 85wt.% of concentration of hydrolyzed protein liquid.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.46-51
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• 2018

A basic sprinkler system is a fire extinguishing system that can be easily installed in a fire-vulnerable place such as a publicly used establishments. However, the publicly used establishments are not only complicated in structure, but also have a large amount of flammable interior materials, and the users are not normally in a normal state, which is a very dangerous fire-fighting object. Therefore, due to the low fire extinguishing performance of the basic sprinkler system installed in the publicly used establishments, the fire suppression control can not be performed quickly in case of fire, which may increase the life and property damage. In this study, the cases of quantitative changes of extinguishing water used in basic sprinkler system and the cases of addition of additives such as wetting agents, reinforced agents to improve extinguishing performance were compared. Experimental results showed that the extinguishing performance was improved as the quantity of extinguishing water increase and the reinforced agents showed similar performance to that of 60% increase in the amount of extinguishing water. The cooling time to $200^{\circ}C$ and oxygen concentration were improved up to 14.3% and 34.5%, respectively. In the case of using the wetting agent, the cooling time to $200^{\circ}C$ and oxygen concentration did not show any significant improvement, but showed the effect of preventing deep seated fire. In order to prevent loss of life and property, it is necessary to improve the performance of the basic sprinkler system by increasing amount of extinguishing water or using additives like reinforced agents.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.28-35
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• 2019

Dry water is a core-shell structured powder which comprises a very fine water core covered with hydrophobic silica particles. Recently, the dry water has attracted attention as a new type of fire extinguishing agents. However, characteristics of the dry water as a fire extinguishing agent have not been revealed until now. To our best knowledge, this is the first work to uncover effects of particle size of the dry water on the fire extinguishing performance. Pristine dry water, which has heterogeneous particle size distribution, was carefully separated by sieving method into three fractions which were a small size (ca. $110{\mu}m$) fraction, a medium size (ca. $220{\mu}m$) fraction and a large size (ca. $400{\mu}m$) fraction. Microscopic observations confirmed the effective separation of dry water's particle size. In extinguishing tests of wood cribs fire, the medium size dry water showed most excellent fire extinguishing performance, as compared to other dry waters having small (ca. $110{\mu}m$) and large (ca. $400{\mu}m$) particle size. The good performance of the medium size (ca. $220{\mu}m$) dry water may be attributed to the balance between cooling effect of the water core and smothering effect of the silica particles. It is also revealed that small size dry water has poor flowability than large size dry water.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.23-28
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• 2013

In order to improve extinguishing performance of water mist, many studies of additives have been conducted. In this study, viscosity agent which has the ability to improve extinguishing performance by adhering to the surface on fire was used and fluorine-free surfactant was also added to water to enhance water's wetting ability. This study aimed to verify optimal concentration of extinguishing of additives according to fire source and extinguishing performance by comparison with pure water. In case of wood crib fire, the results show that flame suppression and extinguishing time of sodium alginate 0.4 wt.% are 3.4 times and 2.2 times shorter than those of pure water in 0.2 MPa respectively. It seems that large amount of water adhere to surface on fire, thus cooling effect on surface was enhanced. Also water consumption of sodium alginate 0.4wt.% is up to 65% lower than that of pure water. In case of heptane fire, extinguishing time of cocobetaine 0.1 wt.% is 9.7 times shorter than that of pure water in 0.2 MPa. It is thought that because cocobetaine can block oxygen and suppress oil mist by making emulsion film on fire surface due to a low surface tension. On the other hand, water consumption of cocobetaine 0.1 wt.% is 92% lower than that of pure water.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.20-25
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• 2014

본 연구는 자체제작 축소모형 실험 장치를 이용하여 목재를 대상으로 침윤소화약제의 소화성능평가를 수행하였다. 축소모형실험의 최적조건 확인을 위해 소화용수의 양과 목재의 수를 변화시켜 조건설정 실험을 진행한 결과 20 pieces의 목재를 적층한 후 물과 소화용수 100 mL를 살수한 경우에 한하여 소화성능의 변별력을 확인하였다. 따라서 해당 조건에서 현재 사용되고 있는 국내외 침윤소화약제를 대상으로 소화성능을 평가한 결과, 물의 경우에서만 재 발화가 발생하는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 살수 시간에 따른 온도분포를 통해 소화능력의 변별력을 판단할 수 있었다. 본 실험 결과를 바탕으로 추후 최적화 침윤소화약제 성능평가 방법을 제시하는데 기초자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.78-84
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• 2014

Viscosity agents were added to water to improve extinguishing performance of low pressure water mist suppression system on wood cribs fire, and a small scale wood cribs fire experiment was conducted to measure the extinguishing performance. CMC and agar were used for viscosity agent and as the amount of viscosity agent enlarges, it showed the increase of the viscosity of aqueous solution and the decrease of the fluidity. On wood cribs fire experiment, the extinguishing efficiency was improved with supplemental viscosity agent as it enhanced the adhesive time of aqueous solution on the wood, and therefore expanded the contact time of fire surface. The surface tension of aqueous solution was decreased with the addition of agar which to be assumed as an increase factor of extinguishing efficiency. By the extinguishing experimental result, the most effective extinguishing agent was CMC 0.6 wt.%, with the flame suppression time and the extinguishing time were reduced by 70s and 93s respectively at this concentration.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.139-144
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 산업용으로 일반적으로 사용하고 있는 질소발생기를 사용하여 할론 계열의 소화약제를 대체할 청정소화설비로 적용할 수 있는지에 대한 소화성능 실험을 간단히 수행하였다. 산업용 질소발생기의 소화성능을 분석하기 위하여 간단한 방호구역을 제작하여 실제 질소발생기에서 발생하는 질소가스를방사하면서 방호구역 내의 산소농도 변화를 실험적으로 파악하였다. 실험결과, 현재 많이 사용하고 있는 질소발생기로 방호구역 $100m^3$에 대하여 질소가스를 $5m^3$/min로 방사하면 3분 이내에 방호구역 내의 산소 농도를 15% 이내로 낮추어 질식소화가 충분히 가능하다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.15-26
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• 2009

This research has so far found out problems including the second damage of extinguishant and the short time of emission when using the existing dry chemical extinguisher and gas type extinguisher, and impossibility of constant extinguishing due to the inability of recharge at the field. To solve such problems, a mobile water mist system was developed and used. However, it is judged that more improved mobile water mist system is necessary because the force of the fire changed diversely and remote villages in mountains or islands where the force of fire extinguishing is short or delayed, require high capacity of fire extinguishing. Therefore a new equipment was developed and tested focusing on the improvement of extinguishing capacity and the performance of extinguishing was found out to be improved, compared to the existing mobile water mist system. It also showed a superior extinguishing capacity to dry chemical extinguisher or gas type extinguisher. Afterward an additional research is required of simplification of equipment, price cutting and the development of additive to enable high performance even with just small extinguishant.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.15-23
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• 2012

$CO_2$ 소화설비의 소화성능 시험방법에는 직접시험방법이 가장 좋지만, 고비용과 환경문제 그리고 시험절차의 어려움으로 간접시험방법을 사용하는 경우가 많다. 그러나 석유화학플랜트나 원자력발전소와 같은 국가 중요위험시설은 화재가 발생하면 대형피해가 발생할 수 있으므로 직접방사시험을 통해 소화성능을 검증할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 국가 중요위험시설에 설치된 전역방출방식의 $CO_2$ 소화설비 중에서 표면화재 방호구역과 심부화재 방호구역을 각각 선정하여 $CO_2$ 소화설비의 소화성능을 검증해 보았다. 소화성능은 방호구역 내에 방사된 $CO_2$의 농도가 설계농도기준(NFSC 및 NFPA)에 만족해야 그 성능을 인정받을 수 있다. 여기서, 설계농도는 $CO_2$ 소화약제가 화염을 제어할 수 있는 소화농도에 여유율 20 %를 감안한 농도를 의미한다. 시험결과 표면화재와 심부화재 방호구역 모두 $CO_2$ 설계농도를 확보하고 있음을 확인하였고 심부화재의 경우에는 20분 이상 설계농도가 유지되었다. 본 연구를 통해 국가 중요위험시설에 대한 직접방사시험 방법 및 판정방법을 소개하였고 향후 이와 같은 국가 중요위험시설에는 직접방사시험을 통해 소화설비의 신뢰성을 검증해야 할 필요성을 제기하였다.