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Analyzing Safety Factors of Swimming Pool

  • KWON, Yeon Taek;SEO, Myung Seok;SEO, Won Jae
    • Journal of Sport and Applied Science
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.11-15
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: Swimming industry is improving faster than the other types of sport industries and populations of participating swimming are promptly increasing. Lack of recognition of fire safety in swimming facilities is issues related-studies has only recently begun to pay attention. This study is to review and extract fire safety factors for managing swimming pool. Research design, data, and methodology: The study reviewed related-ordinances, governmental documents, and studies discussing safety management of sport facility. Given the literature review, the study produced an initial construct presenting items and factors including fire safety elements and experts' review were conducted to ensure conceptual validity. Finally, the study generated the final factors and subitems representing fire safety elements for swimming pool management. Results: The study confirms factors and elements as follows: the study identifies fire safety equipments as first factors presenting fire extinguisher' place, its proper run, check list and so forth, Second factor is warning system including fire warning equipment, its proper operation, sprinkler and its proper operation, switch and lamp of emergency panel and their proper run and so on. Third factor is evacuation system including a fire exit, exit sign, broadcasting equipment, and their proper operation, and so on. The other factors are an electronic equipment and its subelements, gas management including safety management of LPG, gas valve, pipe, and fire prevention facility including a fire door and its proper operating. Conclusions: Regarding safety management of swimming pool, further discussions and implications were made, and future directions for related-studies were discussed.

A Study to Determine the Quantity of Clean Agent in an Automatic Fire Extinguisher for Switchgear (수배전반용 개별식 자동소화장치를 위한 청정소화약제량 최적산정에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Young-Kwan;Yoon, Byeong-Don;Shin, Myong-Chul
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.393-396
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    • 2011
  • 설치의 법적규제가 없는 수배전반용 개별식 자동소화장치의 경우, 소화약제량 산정시 설계자마다 체적당 소요가스량, 개구부 면적, 개구면적당 가산량을 다르게 적용하여 같은 크기의 panel 인데도 소화약제량이 다르게 산정되는 경우가 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 수배전반 및 전동기 기동반용 개별식 자동소화장치를 위한 청정소화약제량(HFC-227ea)을 산정하기 위해 NFPA, NFSC를 비교분석하여 최적의 소화약 제량 산정식을 도출하였다.

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A Study on the Development of an Automatic Fire Extinguisher for Power Sub-station systems (수배전반용 자동소화장치 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Young-Kwan;Yoon, Byeong-Don;Kim, Eung-Kwon;Shin, Myong-Chul
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2010.10a
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    • pp.345-348
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    • 2010
  • 수배전반, 반도체 설비장치가 있는 FAB, 그리고 철도 전원실에 설치된 신호 전원 공급장치 및 정류기 내부에 화재발생 위험성이 내제되어 있으나, 기기 내부에 소화 장치가 설치되어 있지 않아서, 화재발생시 기기소실에 따른 1차 피해뿐만 아니라, 2차 피해가 막대하다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 본 연구에서 제안하는 수배전반용 발화점감지 튜브 소화장치는 화재발생시 일정한 온도가 되면 튜브가 녹아 가스가 방출되면서 소화용기내의 소화약제가 방출되어 화재를 진압하는 장치로써 전력의 공급 없이도 화재의 감지 및 소화가 가능한 자동소화장치이다. 본 논문에서는 수배전반용 발화점 감지 튜브에 적합한 소화기를 개발하기 위해 소화기를 재설계 하였다.

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Design Proposal for Usability Enlargement of Fire Extinguisher (소화기의 사용성 증대를 위한 디자인 제안)

  • Kang, Byeong-Hwan;Kim, Duek-Nam;Jung, Do-Young;Kwak, Dong-Kurl
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2013.07a
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    • pp.550-551
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    • 2013
  • 본 논문은 초기화재 발생에 대한 대응력을 높일 수 있는 소화기디자인 방안에 대해서 연구해 보았다. 연구를 진행하는데 있어서 일반 사용자를 대상으로 설문을 실시하였으며 도출된 설문을 토대로 디자인 안을 제시해 보았다.

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A Study on the Revision of the Fire Safety Standard of the Fire Department Connection (연결송수관설비 화재안전기준(NFSC 502) 개정에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Gyeong-Nam;Baek, Eun-Sun
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.67-76
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    • 2018
  • Among the firefighting facilities, the fire department connection during firefighting is more important than any other facilities at the firefighting site to supply fire water. This study examined the water supply port of a fire department connection installed at an apartment building based on the Standard for Fire Safety (NFSC 502). The time of discovery was measured by fire fighters who knew or did not know of the water supply port installed in the apartment building, and by separating day and night. To maximize the use of the fire department connection which is the full fire extinguisher facility used by the fire brigade based on the results of the experiment, the author suggests improvement proposals that can clarify the installation location and install the location sign of the fire department connection for the Standard for Fire Safety (NFSC 502).

Study on the effective response method to reduce fire risk of wood fuel heating system (화목 연료 난방설비의 화재 위험 감소 방안에 관한 이론적 연구)

  • Park, Kyong-Jin;Lee, Bong-Woo;Lee, Guen-Cull;Nam, Ki-Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.163-171
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    • 2019
  • Recently, rural housing in urban areas has been increasing due to the improvement of income level. With the increase of the construction of the power house, the installation of the heating system using the harmonious fuel for the purpose of heating and the beauty of the room is increasing rapidly. In addition to the increasing use of firewood heating equipment, the incidence of fire is also increasing. Analysis of the National Fire Data System of the Fire Department The result of the analysis of the National Fire Data System Many parts of the fire are incinerated by the accumulation of tar due to the incompleteness of periodic cleaning inside the cylinder. The distance between the fire extinguisher and the combustible materials such as ceiling, Resulting in fire. In addition, it was found that much of the fire of the firewood heating system in the time zone occurs during the sleeping and resting time and there is not enough time for the residents to cope. This, in turn, causes serious harm to the lives and property of the users of the pyrotechnic heating system. Therefore, in this study, domestic and foreign standards and laws related to fuel oil heating facilities were analyzed and 12 cases of fire accidents were analyzed. Through the revision of the fire prevention and firefighting facilities installation and maintenance law, the installation standards of the alarm and fire extinguishing facilities were presented.

An Experiment Study on Electric Vehicle Fire and Fire Response Procedures (전기차 화재 실험 및 대응방안에 관한 연구)

  • Ki-Hun Nam;Jun-Sik Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 2024
  • Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are widely used in various sectors, such as transportation (e.g., electric vehicles (EV)) and energy (e.g., energy storage facilities) due to their high energy density, broad operating temperature (-20 ℃ ~ 60 ℃), and high capacities. LIBs are powerful but fragile on external factors, including pressure, physical damage, overheating, and overcharging, that cause thermal runaway causing fires and explosions. During a LIB fire, a large amount of oxygen is generated from the decomposition of ionogenic materials. A water fire extinguisher that helps with cooling and suffocating must be essentially required at the same time. In fact, however, it is difficult to suppress LIB fires in the case of EVs because a LIB is installed with a battery pack housing that interrupts direct extinguishing by water. Thus, this study aims to investigate effective fire extinguishing measurements for LIB fires by using an EV. Relevant documents, including research articles and reports, were reviewed to identify effective ways of LIBs fire extinguishing. A real-scale fire experiment generating thermal runaway was carried out to figure out the combustion characteristics of EVs. This study revealed that the most effective fire extinguishing measurements for LIB fires are applying fire blankets and water tanks. However, there is still a lack of adequate regulation and guidelines for LIB fire extinguishment. Taking this into account, developing functional fire extinguishment measurements and available regulatory instruments is an urgent issue to secure the safety of firefighters and citizens.

A Study on the Fire Risk of ESS through Fire Status and Field Investigation (화재현황 및 현장조사를 통한 ESS의 화재 위험성 연구)

  • Park, Kwang-Muk;Kim, Jae-Hyun;Park, Jin-Yeong;Bang, Sun-Bae
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.91-99
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    • 2018
  • Recently, the spread of ESS in Korea has increased and a fire accident has also occurred. By July 2018, there were a total of 7 cases. All 7 cases were ESS systems consisting of lithium-ion batteries and were burned down. Both the automatic fire extinguisher and the fire department were not able to digest. In this paper, the characteristics of ESS fire are analyzed based on recent ESS fire situation and field investigation, and the cause of fire is divided into environmental, electrical and thermal factors. As a result, it was found that the ESS fire was correlated with the installation environment of the system. In the domestic and overseas lithium ion battery test standard and ESS facility standard survey, the trends and differences of domestic and overseas facilities standards were identified. Based on the fire status and field investigationy, and domestic and overseas facility standard survey, measures were suggested to prevent and prevent the spread of fire in ESS fire.

Effectiveness Analysis of Fire Extinguishing Agents for Metal Waste Fires (금속화재 대응 시 간이소화용구 및 약제의 소화 효과성 분석)

  • Jin-Suk Kwon;Su-Young Kim;Tae-Sun Kim;Tae-Hee Park;Tae-Dong Kim;Min-Young Park
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.644-655
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: Metal fires occur in metal handling, processing, waste storage plants, etc. It is difficult for firefighters to extinguish metal fires, and it takes a long time, so caution is needed in fire suppression. Method: In this study, current statistics and problems of metal fires were introduced, and then the effectiveness was verified by experiments with using fire extinguishing agents used in Korea. Comparative suppression experiments of 5 different fire extinguishing agents for burning powders of 99.9% magnesium over 150 ㎛ were performed following the metal powder type test method of Class D fire in ISO 7165. Result: 5 fire extinguishing agents are the power types of dry sands and expanded vermiculites most commonly used in Korea, the certified class D fire extinguisher used abroad, and ochers requiring verification, and the liquid silica gel. Conclusion: The results of experiments showed expanded vermiculites were the best metal fire extinguishing agent considering effectiveness, convenience of use, and economical feasibility.

A Ring-Oriented Multicast Architecture over Mobile Ad Hoc Sensor networks

  • Yang, Yubai;Hong, Choong Seon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.1259-1262
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    • 2004
  • Detecting environmental hazards and monitoring remote terrain are among many sensor network applications. In case of fire detection, it is significantly valuable to monitor fire-spot's shape and trend in time. Mobile ad hoc sensor nodes right round are responsible for sensoring, processing and networking packets, or even launching extinguisher. In this paper, we proposed a ring-oriented Multicast architecture based on "Fisheye State Routing" (MFSR) to organize a group of mobile ad hoc sensor nodes in a multicast way. It is familiar with traditional mesh-based multicast protocol [1] in mobile ad hoc network, trying to concentrates on efficiency and robustness simultaneously. Certain applications-based solution for hazards is proposed, quantitative results including architecture and recovery algorithms of MFSR are also investigated in this paper.

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