• 설비공학논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.261-267
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• 2003

The present study investigates the fire suppression characteristics using a water mist fire suppression system. Numerical simulations of fire suppression with water mist are performed with considering the interaction of fire plume and water droplet, droplet evaporation, and combustion of pool fire. The predicted temperature fields of smoke layer are compared with that of measured data. Numerical results agree with the experimental results within 5$^{\circ}C$ in the case without water mist In the case of fire suppression with water mist, numerical results dose not predict well lot temperature field in the gradual cooling region after water mist injection. But the predicted results of initial fire suppression are in good agreement with that of measured data. The reason of the discrepancy between predicted and measured data is due to the variation of turning rate during the injection of water mist. The effect of burning rate on the fire suppression is left as future study.

• International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2004

The present study investigates the fire suppression characteristics using a water mist fire suppression system. Numerical simulations of fire suppression with water mist are performed with considering the interaction of fire plume and water spray. The predicted temperature fields of smoke layer are compared with those of measured data. Numerical results agree with the experimental results within $10^{\circ}C$ in the case without water mist. In the case of fire suppression with water mist, numerical results do not predict well for temperature field in the gradual cooling region after water mist injection. But the predicted results of initial fire suppression are in good agreement with those of measured data. The reason for the discrepancy between predicted and measured data is due to the poor combustion modeling during the injection of water mist. More elaborate models for numerical simulation are required for better predictions of the fire suppression characteristics using water mist.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2005

Rotational motion in the atmosphere around a fire may have a profound influence on the fire plume. This process underlies the occurrence of fire whirls. Fire whirls are rare but highly destructive phenomenon which were observed in a large forest, urban and building fires. The present study aims to investigate of the effect of rotation Strength on the fire whirl characteristics expeimentally. Experiments are performed for various sizes of fire source with different rotation strength. From the experimental observations, it is noted that the mean centerline temperature is gradually increased and mean radial temperature is decreased as increases rotation strength. The characteristic mean flame height of fire based on the visible observation is increased as increases of dimensionless swirl parameter, $\Omega/\alpha$, represented by swirl induced motion to buoyancy driven motion.

• 연구논문집
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• 통권24호
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• pp.41-48
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• 1994

This experimental study deals with the extinguishiment characteristics of an oil pool flame using the water spray. The water through the six different atomizers is ejected over the freely burning pool flame in the quiescent surrounding air. Injection direction is vertical to the surface of oil in a small tank with a diameter of 100mm and a height of 10mm. In order to estimate quantitatively the extinction, the burning rate as well as the effective water flux are measured. The effective water flux is the amount of the water which reach the pool from the nozzle. The burning rate with the water spray increases until the injection pressure increases to reach some value, which gives the maximum burning rate, while the effective water flux without the flame decreases or does not change according to increasing of the injection pressure. This maximum burning rate is greater than 2.5 times of burning rate of the fire without the water spray. As a matter of the extinguishiment, it is found that the water drops of which size is too small can not extinguish the fire because too small drops does not reach the fuel surface.

• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 2005년도 춘계학술논문발표회 논문집
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• pp.19-25
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• 2005

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.31-34
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• 2001

Cause of Bucheon LPG refueling station accident could not be clearly verified because of opposite talking of men reponsible for the accident the accident, damaged by BLEVE and fire, and no systematic fire investigation. After two and half years, recently first judgement has been carried out. But competitive arguement is going on and first leak point of massive LPG will not be clearly identified with evidences acquired by now. This accident gave us many instructions and advices. Specially, massive LPG leak can result in pool fire and safety of underground-installed storage tank is proved by no damage in the strong BLEVE.

• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 2008년도 춘계학술논문발표회 논문집
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• pp.218-221
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• 2008

The real scale fire suppression test inside a road tunnel were carried out for water spray systems. The dimension of the tunnel is 7.5m in height and 11.6m in width. 3 different water spray nozzle systems with low operating pressure less than 3.5 bar were used in the experiment. Two types of fires were tested. One is a $1.4m^2$ heptane pool fire and the other is a 2000CC passenger car fire. From the experiment, the spray densities of tested systems were about $6.0\;l/min/m^2$ which is currunt domestic guideline. Although all the systems cannot extinguish the tested fires, it was found that they can reduce the tunnel temperature and have a capability to control and suppress the tested fire.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 1999

화학공장에서 발생하는 사고는 공장 자체의 손실을 가져 올 뿐만 아니라 주위 지역에도 영향을 미친다. 그리고 사고로 인한 피해는 대형화할 가능성이 크다. 이에 따라 화학 공장의 안전 관리의 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 사고의 정량 평가는 사고의 규모를 미리 예측하는 것으로 이를 통해 공정 장치의 layout, 주위와의 최소 안전거리 예측, 대피 시설의 설치 등과 같은 대책을 세울 수 있다 본 연구에서는 화학공장의 3대 사고형태 중 화재와 폭발의 피해 예측을 용이하게 하기 위한 프로그램을 작성하였다. 화재의 경우에는 Pool Fire와 Fireball로 인한 피해를 예측할 수 있도록 하였고, 폭발의 경우에는 UVCE와 BLEVE로 인한 손실을 예측 할 수 있도록 하였다. 화재는 화염에서 나오는 복사열을 피해 정도를 예측하는 기준으로 사용하였고, 폭발은 과압을 기준으로 하였다. 특히, BLEVE의 경우에는 파편의 예상 비산 거리도 추정할 수 있도록 하였다. 각각의 결과를 이용해 Probit 분석을 할 수 있도록 하였다. 그리고 이를 기존에 발생했던 부천의 LPG 폭발 사고에의 분석에 사용해본 결과 노출 허용 거리가 800m이었다. 그리고 Probit 분석 결과 1도 화상, 2도 화상, 화재 사망은 각각 450m, 280m, 260m 이상일 경우 직접적인 피해가 없을 것으로 예측되었다. 사고 분석 결과는 이를 한국산업안전공단에서 Dupont의 SAFER 프로그램을 사용하여 얻어낸 예측치와 $3\%$이내의 같은 결과를 얻었다.

• 한국산업안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국안전학회 2004년도 춘계 학술발표회
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• pp.474-479
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• 2004

• 한국마린엔지니어링학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국마린엔지니어링학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.61-65
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• 2002

The present study was numerically and experimentally performed to investigate the fire suppression performance of water mist spray subjected to thermal radiation in closed space. Downward-directed water mist sprays to interact with an under kerosine pool fire were investigated in test facility. The mass mean diameters of water mist droplet were measured by PMAS under various flow conditions. The developed water mist spray nozzle was satisfied to the criteria of NFPA 750, Class 1. The mechanism of the fire suppression by water mist was concluded to be cooling of the fire surface which lead to suppressed of fuel evaporation. It was proved that the water mist spray system under lower pressures could be applied to underground fire protection system.