• Composites Research
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.29-39
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• 2015

Natural fibers reinforced polymer composites are being used in several low strength applications. More research is going on to improve their mechanical and interface properties for structural applications. However, these composites have serious issues regarding flammability, which are not being focused broadly. A limited amount of literature has been published on the flame retardant techniques and flammability factor of natural fibers based polymer matrix composites. Therefore, it is needed to address the flammability properties of natural fibers based polymer composites to expand their application area. This paper summarizes some of the recent literature published on the subject of flammability and flame retardant methods applied to natural fibers reinforced polymer matrix composites. Different factors affecting the flammability, flame retardant solutions, mechanisms and characterization techniques have been discussed in detail.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.3286-3297
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• 2021

The released hydrogen can be ignited even with weak ignition sources. This emphasizes the importance of the hydrogen flammability evaluation to prevent catastrophic failure in hydrogen related facilities including a nuclear power plant. Historically numerous attempts have been made to determine the flammability limit of hydrogen mixtures including several diluents. However, no analytical model has been developed to accurately predict the limit concentration for mixtures containing radiating gases. In this study, the effect of H₂O and CO₂ on flammability limit was investigated through a numerical simulation of lean limit hydrogen flames. The previous flammability limit model was improved based on the mechanistic investigation, with which the amount of indirect radiation heat loss could be estimated by the optically thin approximation. As a result, the sharp increase in limit concentration by H₂O could be explained by high thermal diffusivity and radiation rate. Despite the high radiation rate, however, CO₂ with the lower thermal diffusivity than the threshold cannot produce a noticeable increase in heat loss and ultimately limit concentration. We concluded that the proposed mechanistic analysis successfully explained the experimental results even including radiating gases. The accuracy of the improved model was verified through several flammability experiments for H₂-air-diluent.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2015년도 제51회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 초록집
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• pp.189-192
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• 2015

An experimental study was conducted to find the effect of DBD plasma on the flammability limits of inert-gas-diluted fuel. The results showed that the concentration of diluting nitrogen at flammability limit increased when nitrogen-diluted methane and propane were reformed by plasma, while it decreased when nitrogen-diluted ethylene was reformed by plasma. Gas chromatography results suggested that the fuel type dependence of flammability limits is due to the difference in the concentrations of hydrogen and hydrocarbon species in reformed fuel.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.83-88
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• 1994

The change of flammability limit of n-heptane by the addition of halogenated hydrocarbon was studied. Experimental results showed that halogenated hydrocarbon has a combustion suppression effect and the heat capacity was a Important factor on the flammability limit. The combustion suppression effect of halogenated hydrocarbon was lower than halon, but higher than nitrogen, and the order of effect was $C_3$C1$_3$F$_3$> $C_2$HC1$_2$F$_3$> $C_2$H$_2$F$_4$.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2012년도 제45회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 초록집
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• pp.323-324
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• 2012

Flammability limits of opposed flow diffusion flame in a narrow channel was investigated experimentally and theoretically. There were three different extinction modes corresponding to high strain rate (HSR), low strain rate (LSR) and dilution ratio (DR) limits. To investigate these limits, a theoretical study was followed by focusing on flow and heat transfer characteristics. Consequently, a dead space concept that has been used for premixed flames was important to reveal the heat loss mechanism in a narrow channel especially for LSR conditions even in the case of diffusion flames.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2012년도 제45회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 초록집
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• pp.319-321
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• 2012

The flammability limit and the flame instability of nitrogen-diluted LPG fuel was experimentally studied on a co-flow flame configuration. The combustion reaction of nitrogen-diluted hydrocarbon with air could be interpreted as the equivalent reaction of pure fuel with nitrogen-diluted air. Nitrogen-diluted LPG with nitrogen up to 90 % of nitrogen mole fraction in fuel, which is close to the flammability limit, could form a co-flow flame. Various parameters such as laminar or turbulent flame, the existence of diffusion flame with pure fuel, air temperature could affect the limit of flame formation.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.47-55
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• 1998

A new ignition system concept was developed to improve ignition performance, accuracy of control and the reliability of the ignition system. The new ignition system has ho호 frequency discharge characteristics with 1.5-2.0 ms discharge duration, in place of the usual solitary longer duration event. We applied the system to a commercial engine to study its influence on the maximum combustion pressure attained during the cycle, when this peak pressure occurred, imep, variation rate of the engine speed and the flammability limit of a lean mixture. In this study, we clarified that the new ignition system had a beneficial effect of the lean mixture flammability limit. Also for a given mixture strength we found that the mew ignition system gave a higher peak cylinder pressure than in the case of the conventional ignition system.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.134-142
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• 2023

Electric field assisted combustion is a method that reduces instability in lean combustion. In this study investigated the effects of electrode position on propane-air flame characteristic using a ring electrode. Results showed that burning velocity was not affected by electrode position, but positive voltage expanded the flammability limit while negative voltage contracted it. The effect of voltage polarity on the flammability limit decreased as the electrode position increased. Expanding the flammability limit with a positive voltage can reduce NOx emissions.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.305-316
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• 2022

화석연료의 고갈과 환경문제의 대안으로 수소에너지가 부각되고 있으며, 자동차 산업에서도 수소차의 보급이 증가하고 있다. 그러나 수소는 가연농도 범위가 4~75%로 넓은 가연영역을 가지고 있어 수소차 사고 시 안전에 대한 우려가 높은 실정이다. 특히, 터널이나 지하주차장과 같은 반밀폐 공간에서는 수소누출에 따른 화재나 폭발이 대형사고를 유발할 가능성이 높기 때문에 수소누출에 따른 가연영역 분석을 통해 수소 안전성에 대한 검토가 필요한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 표준단면의 도로터널에서 수소차량의 수소 누출조건과 터널 내 풍속에 따른 수소농도 해석을 수행하여 터널 내 풍속이 가연영역에 미치는 영향을 검토하였다. 수소의 누출조건은 1개의 탱크와 3개의 탱크가 통시에 TPRD를 통해 누출되는 조건과 대형크랙이 발생하여 누출하는 조건으로 하였으며, 터널 내 풍속은 0, 1, 2.5, 4.0 m/s를 고려하였다. 가연영역에 대한 검토결과, 1 m/s 이상의 풍속이 존재하는 경우에는 풍속이 없는 경우와 비교하여 최대 25%수준까지 감소하는 것으로 나타나고 있으며, 풍속증가에 따른 가연영역의 감소효과는 거의 없는 것으로 나타나고 있다. 특히 대형크랙이 발생하여 약 2.5초 만에 완전히 누출되는 경우에는 풍속이 증가하면 가연영역이 약간 증가하는 것으로 나타나고 있다. 또한 하향 분출되는 경우에 풍속이 작은 차량하부 영역에 수소가스가 상당히 긴 시간동안 잔류하는 것으로 분석되었다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2002

신소재 PASCON케이블 트로프로서의 여러 가지 물성을 평가하고, 국내 내연성 시험방법의 적합성을 고찰하였으며, 특히 고속철도 선로변에 사용한 PASCON 케이블 트로프의 법적 타당성과 화재안전성에 대한 연구를 통해 PASCON재질의 적합성을 살펴보았다. 연구결과 국내에서 적용하고 있는 PASCON 케이블 트로프의 재질에 대한 내연성 시험방법(KS M3015)은 국제적인 시험방법(UL 94)과 큰 차이가 없으며, 시험 결과 우수한 성능을 나타내었다. 또한 고속철도 선로변에 설치된 PASCON 케이블 트로프 내에서의 화재 발생시 화재에 대한 확산 경로로서의 가능성이 매우 작으며, 화재에 대한 안전성 또한 매우 높은 것으로 나타났다.