• Title/Summary/Keyword: Fire protection safety

Search Result 633, Processing Time 0.033 seconds

A Study on Fire Spread between Office Room and Atrium in the Atrium Building

  • Lee, Su-Kyung;Kim, Jong-Hoon;Ko, Han-Mog
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
    • /
    • 1997.11a
    • /
    • pp.345-352
    • /
    • 1997
  • We could analyse the fire behavior using the developed software for fire safety assessment in a large space such as atrium. But Korean building law hasn't admitted the result of fire risk assessment in atrium. In the legislation fire resistant wall or shutter must be required between atrium and office rooms, That has obstructed development of building design and fire protection technique in Korea. From this point of view, we made scenarios of fire spread between atrium and office rooms, and then computed fire spread and fire phenomena using FASTLite and Breakl. In this study, we can decide that fire compartmentalization between atrium and office rooms doesn't require in Atrium building if the material and fire protection system were reliable. Consequently, Korean Fire Protection Regulations have to consider in direction of increasing freedom of building.

  • PDF

A Study on Assessment of Fire and Evacuation Safety in Environmental Energy Facilities (환경에너지시설의 화재 및 피난 안전성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Jeon, Yong-Han;Han, Sang-Pil
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
    • /
    • v.21 no.4
    • /
    • pp.39-44
    • /
    • 2019
  • In this study, fire and evacuation safety of environmental energy facilities using fire and evacuation simulation was examined as part of performance-oriented design. The worst-case fire scenarios in which fire-fighting facilities such as sprinkler fire extinguishing and smoke control systems are not working, and the FDS analyzes the visibility, temperature distribution, and carbon monoxide concentration distribution through FDS. The safety was examined. As a result, it was proved that evacuation could limit the visibility, temperature, and carbon monoxide concentration in a smooth range, based on the safety standards set by relevant laws. In other words, it was possible to verify the safety of fire and evacuation for environmental energy facilities where a large amount of combustibles and fires coexist.

원자력발전소 사고사례 - TMI 원자력발전소 사고

  • Korea Fire Protection Association
    • 방재와보험
    • /
    • s.30
    • /
    • pp.64-67
    • /
    • 1986
  • 우리나라 뿐만 아니라 전세계를 경악케 하였던 소련의 체르노빌 핵발전소 방사능 누출사고를 계기로 최근 우리들의 관심사가 되고있는 원자력발전소 사고사례를 게재한다. 이 내용은 미국 안전공학사협회 (American Society of Safety Engineers)가 발행하는 "Professional Safety"지 1979년 8월호에 실린 Three Mile Island원자력발전소의 사고내용을 번역한 것이다.

  • PDF

Evaluation of Fire Safety for Road Tunnels in Port Area based on Fire Safety Guidelines (도로터널 화재안전기준 기반 항만 지역 도로터널 화재 안전성 분석)

  • Ha, Yejin;Jeon, Joonho
    • Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
    • /
    • v.11 no.1
    • /
    • pp.25-28
    • /
    • 2021
  • Recently, the fire safety of road tunnels has been important issues in South Korea. However, proper fire safety regulations has not made for road tunnels. Due to geographical challenges in South Korea, road tunnels should be constructed to secure stable traffic flows. In the Guidelines for Installing and Managing Disaster Prevention Facilities of Road Tunnels (NFSC 603), main target vehicles are passenger cars. This guidelines cannot support big fires from larger vehicles such as cargo, oil trucks. In this study, fire safety for a road tunnel in port area was analyzed with fire dynamics theory under cargo truck fire scenario. Sujunsan road tunnel in Busan city was chosen as a target tunnel, which links between Busan port and highways to increase cargo shipping. The results show the limitations of present guidelines (NFSC 603) for road tunnel from large fire situations.

Basic Study for Improving the Fire Safety of Postpartum Care Centers (산후조리원의 화재안전성 향상을 위한 기초연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Won;Jin, Seung-Hyeon;Kim, Si-Kuk;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Fire Science and Engineering
    • /
    • v.33 no.1
    • /
    • pp.138-146
    • /
    • 2019
  • The present article reports the results of a basic study for improving the fire safety of postpartum care centers. In the case of postnatal care center facilities, newborn babies and mothers reside 24 hours a day, and as they are located in high-rise and multi-use facilities, measures for fire safety are necessary, but there are no domestic manuals. This study examined the problems of fire safety through an analysis of fire cases of postpartum care facilities and related regulations, and conducted surveys on the fire safety consciousness of employees and mothers regarding postpartum care management. The fire safety consciousness of the mother was analyzed.

FIRE WATER SYSTEM RELIABILITY IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

  • James M. Dewey;Kim, Yong-Dal
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
    • /
    • 1997.11a
    • /
    • pp.526-533
    • /
    • 1997
  • Reliability of fire protection systems is often discussed, written about, and even put into codes and standards. However, reliability is seldom considered for the fire protection system as a whole. Why does this happen and why should the designer consider the system as a whole\ulcorner Existing codes and standards incorporate the concept of reliability usually In the form of key component redundancy for some parts of a system. The "Fire Safety Concepts Tree" presented in the National Fire Protection Association Guide 550, Guide to the Fire Safety Concepts Tree, provides a starting point for considering the performance of a water based fire suppression system. Considering fire protection objectives for water based fire suppression systems, means of evaluating system reliability can be developed. This development requires identification of system components that are significant to the overall system reliability.

  • PDF

Fire & Life Safety Challenges in Sustainable Tall Building Design

  • Li, Fang;Reiss, Martin
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
    • /
    • v.2 no.1
    • /
    • pp.31-38
    • /
    • 2013
  • The movement towards sustainable building design can result in unique fire protection challenges and concerns, especially with super tall buildings in relationship to traditional prescriptive code compliance. Different countries haves different code requirements as well as local best practices and may cause conflict with the design features when designing green buildings. These include, but not limited to green roofs, sprinkler water quality and testing, fire department access and areas of refuge with direct or indirect impact by the perspective code compliance. The solutions to these prescriptive code challenges and fire safety concerns can range from simple alternatives to more detailed engineering performance-based design analyses with good solid practice.

A Study about False Alarm of Automatic Fire Detection System (자동화재 탐지설비의 비화재보 감소방안)

  • Lee, Jong-Hwa;Lee, Chun-Ha;Kim, Shi-Kuk;Kong, Ha-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
    • /
    • v.13 no.1
    • /
    • pp.41-49
    • /
    • 2011
  • The automatic fire detection system is an important facility installed with focusing on minimizing the damage from a fire. This paper presents in the followings as the methods to reduce the false alarm of the automatic fire detection system; first, to prepare for legal standard so that revised legal standard can be applied to the fire fighting property prior to revision; second, to introduce the performance based fire detection protection design in the law based fire protection design; third, to maintain the wiring of worn-out detector; forth, to introduce an evaluation system to the education for the fire warden; fifth, to extend the standard of MTBF(meantime between failure) of the detector; sixth, to extend of installing the analog type detector; seventh, to improve the structure of reset switch.

A Investigation Study on the Development of Egress Simulation for Evacuation Safety Evaluation of Tokyo Fire Dept. Department in Japan (일본 동경소방청의 피난안정성평가 시뮬레이션 기술개발 사례연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Jin;Seo, Dong-Goo;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
    • /
    • 2008.11a
    • /
    • pp.216-222
    • /
    • 2008
  • A large number of Computer-based fire growth and Evacuation model have been developed for various purpose and many of these are widely used for research and engineering. And Most of Egress simulation program are ordinary case only related to human behavior But Egress safety Evaluation is very closed to smog movement. It is well known that the Egress simulation program made by Tokyo Fire Department are related to smog movement. So It is the aim of this study to investigate on the Development of Egress Simulation for Evacuation Safety Evaluation of Tokyo Fire Dept. Department in Japan.

  • PDF