• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.122-127
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• 2010

재래시장은 전국적으로 약 1,550여개에 달하며 이들 대부분은 임대형식으로 운영되고 있기 때문에 영세하고 공간 또한 협소한 상태이며 다양한 종류의 전기제품이 내재되어 있기 때문에 화재 위험성이 높다. 근래에 들어 국가적 차원에서 재래시장의 현대화를 독려.지원하고 있지만 현대화 시설이 완료된 곳은 약 50%에 불과하다. 또한 현대화 시설중 전기설비는 '전기설비 기술의 판단기준'에 부합되지 못하여 화재위험성이 상존하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 현대화 시설이 완료된 곳과 그렇지 못한 재래시장의 전기설비의 설치와 사용 실태를 알아보고 이에 따른 전기 화재 위험성을 분석하였다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.72-77
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• 2017

In S. Korea, recently, building fire accidents of residential accommodations or recreational facilities have taken place more frequently than before. Among various building constructions, Multi-layered structure, such as office-residential complex, are mostly made in S. korea. $O_2$, $CO_2$, CO, $NO_x$, $SO_x$, and HCl, these gases has toxic hazard and harmful for human body. And it is predicted that different concentration of released gases from diesel pool fire with upper and lower layer. Therefore, this study reports the fire characteristics of Multi-layered structure by analyzing the fire behavior and concentration of combustion gases of a experimental compartment via real scale fire experiment, in order to predict risks and secure safety for similar fire accidents.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.113-121
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• 2015

This study aims to examine the risk of electrical fire in places where electric heat wires are used. In general, the use of electric heating wires is becoming more common and prevalent in a bid to prevent increasing damage caused by freezing and bursting in residential water pipes, factory pipes and irrigation pipes in vinyl greenhouse and a variety of heat wire products are available in market with legal safety requirements imposed on them. However, the widespread use of anti-freezing burst heat wire products has caused increasing incidents of fire, which often fail to be incorporated into statistics due to quick onsite extinguishing and insignificant damage although damage is gradually on the rise. Against this backdrop, this study aims to look into the possibility of ignition caused by electric heat wires and the mechanism of how it turns into catching fire through overheat and short circuit tests for anti-freezing burst electrical heat wires (hereinafter called the 'heat wire') and expects to serve as the basis for further observations and analyses on the cause of fire and the process of ignition in a scientific manner.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.137-143
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• 2015

Fire fighter are exposed to the situations which are hard to predict due to continuous and accidental changes which hinder their fire fighting activity. As these threats of safety accident act as fear factors, they are doing insecure fire fighting activities. Therefore, as unclear and abnormal risks of working environment such as the riskiness of expansion of disaster, instability, obstacles of activities, abnormality, urgency, etc. increase, safety accidents are caused. This study analyzes the actual condition of safety and health and awareness of fire fighter who are exposed safety accidents during their fire fighting activities and utilize such result as the basis data to secure safety of fire fighter, keep efficient safety control and prevent accidents. The results of analysis are as follows. As rescue works among all fire-fighting works shows the highest emotional stabilization and the highest post-traumatic stress disorder is shown in fire sergeant level positions, and fire fighters whose working period is 10-15 years, reinforcing safety training to long-term workers is necessary. As the result of survey regarding safety awareness, the highest awareness level was shown in fire sergeant level positions, and fire fighters whose working period is over 20 years, and when it comes to operation of fire fighting equipments, fire-fighting workers and workers having 1-4 years of working period showed high safety awareness. The more serious injury in a fire fighter experienced as the first injury after working as a fire-fighter, the more cause-and-effect relationship was shown between personal physical condition and work, and it is shown as obstacles of fire fighting activities and affects to post-traumatic stress disorder. Moreover, as after-work off duty activities also affect to official disaster, systematic improvement of working environment is required. Occupational medical work compatibility evaluation considering the distinct characteristics of works to secure fire-fighter' health care together with fire-fighting capability is shown to be necessary.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2016년도 춘계 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.79-80
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• 2016

In the event of a fire on the outer walls of an architectural structure, through real scale experiments with the purpose of estimating the Flame Trajectory, the behavior and risks of expanded combustion to an upper architectural compartment of the Fire Plume Ejected from an Opening according to changes in the aspect ratio of the opening were examined. The results showed that the more the heat release rate of the fire source increased, the heat capacity of the Fire Plume Ejected from the Opening also increased, and for the case of heptane when compared with methanol or ethanol, the results showed a trend for a significant amount of unburned gas to remain. The results also showed that the larger the aspect ratio was, the more likely it was for the Flame Trajectory to approach the outer walls and rise up. In each of the experiment conditions, as the flame rose from the lower part of the wall to the upper part of the wall, a steady decrease was shown for the temperature distribution. Also by quantitatively analyzing the amount of unburned gas that remained, a method to estimate the temperature of the Fire Plume Ejected from an Opening for a traverse opening was implemented.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.55-65
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 천장 은폐장소에 공사 가능한 전기설비 중 배선공사에 사용되는 합성수지관(CD, VE) 및 금속관(ST)을 대상으로 연소실험 및 ISO 5660 실험, ISO 5659 실험을 실시하였으며, 측정 데이터를 바탕으로 화재 확산 및 피난 위험도를 분석하였다. ISO 5660 총열방출량 실험결과 CD관 120.5 MJ/㎡, VE관 81.9 MJ/㎡, ST관 4.9 MJ/㎡이 측정되었다. ISO 5659 연기밀도 실험결과 CD관 1320, VE관 731, ST관 102이 측정되었으며, 최대연기밀도가 측정된 시간은 CD관 605 s, VE관 740 s, ST관 1,200 s이다. 화재 확산 및 피난 위험도에서 CD관, VE관, ST관 순으로 나타났다. 화재 확산 위험도 분석 시 총열방출량은 CD관 4,820 MJ/㎡, VE관 4,267 MJ/㎡, ST관 196 MJ/㎡로 산출되었다. 피난 위험도 분석결과 투과율 89% 때의 시간은 CD관 127 s, VE관 35 s, ST관 969 s, 거의 앞이 보이지 않을 정도의 농도를 나타내는 투과율 79% 때의 시간은 CD관 157 s, VE관 50 s로 나타났다. CD관과 VE관은 화재 확산 및 피난 위험도 수치가 높았던 반면 ST관의 경우 화재 확산에 거의 영향이 없었고, 피난 위험도에서도 화재발생 인지 후 피난하는데 문제가 없는 것으로 나타났다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2023

Background: Firefighting involves exposure of firefighters to risks related to this activity, serious injuries, and occupational diseases are recorded. There are other consequences such as thermal and emotional stress. This systematic review is proposed in order to analyze the risks and consequences faced by these workers and thus provide elements to improve safety management systems in institutions. Method: A descriptive observational study of systematic literature review on the risks and consequences of exposure to firefighters' activity was proposed, and the information was analyzed and described based on the available data and according to the variables determined. Results: The studies showed data on mechanical, physical, chemical, psychosocial risks, workers' perception and resilience, and epidemiological data. Information related to firefighters' activity on falls and slips, exposure to noise, and high concentrations of carbon monoxide is detailed. In addition, the relationship between burnout, cognitive, and physical fatigue as adverse effects on health and performance is mentioned. Conclusions: Among the preventive measures, the use of personal protective equipment is suggested, incorporation in prevention programs of information on exposure to risk factors, as well as the implementation of models that can predict the perception of workers, additionally, the generation of management systems with safety climate models for fire departments.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.100-107
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• 2016

오늘날 인간의 삶의 질 향상과 다양한 욕구를 충족시키기 위한 건축물은 대형화, 고층화, 다양화되는 추세이며, 이에 따른 화재의 발생빈도 및 잠재적인 위험요소가 증가되고 있다. 특히, 화재발생 시 수직으로의 연소확대 위험성이 증가되어 재실자의 피난시간이 지연되는 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위해서는 화재를 조기에 감지하고 건축물의 구조 등을 감안하여 위험순위에 따른 화재 경보방식을 적용할 필요가 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 수직 연소확대의 위험성을 많이 내포하고 있는 2가지 구조인 전면형 이중외피 구조와 계단 구조에 대해 수직 연소확대 특성을 설명하고, 국내 외 화재경보방식을 비교 검토한 후 FDS 이용하여 연기밀도, 가시거리, CO 농도를 비교 분석하여 각 구조에 적합한 화재경보방식을 제안하였다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.197-211
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• 2007

The power of semiconductor, Korea is continuously constructing semiconductor production line for keeping a front-runner status. however, studies and data about potential risks in semiconductor factory are still short. If fire does not initially suppressed, the fire causes a great damage. To decrease fire risk factors, in addition to fire fighting safety equipment, more important thing is how to design and construct fire protection system. The current fire protection codes about semiconductor factory come under functional law, and this law is short of consideration about particularity of factory. The existing prescriptive fire codes depending on experience compose without evident engineering verifications, thus equipments which is created by the current prescriptive fire code may bring about a variety of problems. For example, the design under the current regulation can not cope with the excessive investments, low efficiencies, and the diversifying construction designs and be applied to the quick changes of new technologies. Ergo, an optimal design for fire protection is to equip fire protection arrangements with condition and environment of production field. Manufacturing factory of semiconductors is a windowless airtight space. And for cleanliness, there exists strong flow of cooperation. Therefore, there is a need for fire safety design that meets the characteristic of a clean room. Accordingly, we are to derive smoke flow according to cooperation process within a clean room and construction plan of an optimal sensor system. In this study, in order to confirm the performance of proposed smoke-exhaust equipment and suggest efficient smoke exhaust device when there is a fire of 1MW of methane in the clean room of company H, we have implemented fire simulation using fluid dynamics computation.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.466-473
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• 2021

Fire protection is one of important issues to ensure safety and reduce risks of nuclear power plants (NPPs). While robust programs to shut down commercial reactors in any fires have been successfully maintained, the concept and associated regulatory requirements are constantly changing or strengthening by lessons learned from operating experiences and information all over the world. As part of this context, it is necessary not only to establish specific fire hazard assessment methods reflecting the characteristics of research reactors and educational reactors but also to make decisions based on advancement encompassing numerical analyses and experiments. The objectives of this study are to address fire simulation in the control room of an educational reactor and to discuss integrity of digital console in charge of main operation as well as analysis results through comparison. Three electrical fire scenarios were postulated and twenty-four thermal analyses were carried out taking into account two turbulence models, two cable materials and two ventilation conditions. Twelve supplementary thermal analyses and six subsequent structural analyses were also conducted for further examination on the temperature and heat flux of cable and von Mises stress of digital console, respectively. As consequences, effects of each parameter were quantified in detail and future applicability was briefly discussed. On the whole, higher profiles were obtained when Deardorff turbulence model was employed or polyvinyl chloride material and larger ventilation condition were considered. All the maximum values considered in this study met the allowable criteria so that safety action seems available by sustained integrity of the cable linked to digital console within operators' reaction time of 300 s.