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A Numerical Study on the Effects of the Smoke Exhaustion on Safe Evacuation in Emergency Situations during Fires on Ships

  • Kim, Won-Ouk
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.85-89
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    • 2013
  • Sometimes, an evacuation should be executed from a ship for many reasons. This study considers on emergency evacuation on fire in a ship, one of the many reasons for evacuation. Due to the characteristic of fire, the most loss of life is known to be caused by suffocation resulted by smoke. To reduce the suffocation by smoke, the time available for evacuation should be improved for the higher survival rate of crews. In this study, crews' survival times and Evacuation time are analyzed quantitatively in during fire in the same sealed space in two different cases of the natural ventilation and the forced ventilation.

A Study on Evacuee′s Risk Assessment under Ship′s Fire (선박화재의 인명안전평가 해석)

  • 양영순;정정호;이재옥;공수철;여인철
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2001.04a
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    • pp.241-247
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    • 2001
  • A Fire Safety Evaluation Module(FSEM), which quantitatively evaluates the risk of evacuees when fire occurs in buildings or ships, is presented in this paper. The developed FSEM can be applied to multi-room structure. Basic input data for the FSEM are prepared by fire model and evacuation model. CFAST which is one of the existing fire models is used as fire model and MonteDEM evacuation model was developed for evacuation model, respectively. MonteDEM evacuation model makes use of distinct element method and Monte-Carlo simulation, and it can also take into consideration ground inclination by ship motions in order to simulate the real situation of evacuation. Some typical situations are modelled for illustrative examples and quantitative assessment of evacuee's risk under fire accident is carried out.

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A Study of Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis for the Water Spray Distance of Long Jet Monitor (Long Jet Monitor의 소화수 분사 거리에 대한 유동 해석적 연구)

  • Jae-Sang Jo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.907-913
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    • 2023
  • Currently, the sprinkler method is widely used as an initial suppression method in existing firefighting systems. However, this method can cause significant damage to both equipment and facilities in the hydration area. To minimize this damage, fire extinguishing monitors are being developed that can spray fire extinguishing water directly at the point of fire. These monitors are installed on the top floor of the ship, such as the Living Quarter and Ventilation System. While conventional fire extinguishing monitors focus on lightweight research with a short spray port and require a spray distance of about 40 to 45m, recent developments necessitate a longer spray port, similar to a water cannon, requiring a spray distance of about 70 to 75m. This study aims to predict the injection distance of both the existing ship-installed fire extinguisher and the long spray port fire extinguisher through hydrodynamic computer analysis, and to determine whether the injection distance has increased.

A Study on the Improvement of Survival Rate of the Passengers and Crews according to FDS Analysis (FDS 분석을 통한 승객 및 선원 생존율 향상에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Won Ouk;Kim, Jong Su;Park, Woe Chul
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.312-317
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    • 2015
  • Seafarers can confront to evacuate from the ship with many reasons such as collision, grounding and fire accident. It believes that evacuation time from ship is very important element in order to increase survival rate in the contingency circumstance, however narrow and complex structure of ship is one of obstacle element against prompt evacuation. Taking into consideration the unique structure of ship compared to the structure of other facilities, speed of fire propagation on board ship is faster than the same size of other type facilities. Therefore, measures to prompt evacuation are required. But it comes with the behavioral constraints of the crews and passengers of the nature of operating in a complex structure with narrow vessels. Therefore, in this study, we propose a formula to be analyzed by theoretical approach and simulation methods to improve the survival rate for the crew and passenger of the ship through the ship's structural modification. We analyzed the temperature rise and visibility which are the most influential effects on the life safety in the event of fire by using a three-dimensional analysis of sight-only program Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS) as analytical tools.

In Regard to Reforming of Fire-Fighting Equipment Verification System (동향소개 - 소방검정시스템 개편에 대하여)

  • Kim, Young-Geun
    • Journal of Korea Ship Safrty Technology Authority
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    • s.35
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    • pp.52-62
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    • 2013
  • 2012년 2월 5일을 기점으로 하여 소방검정 시스템에 대하여 전반적인 변화가 있었다. "소방시설 설치 유지 및 안전관리에 관한 법률" 개정시행과 동시에 행정안전부령인 "소방용 기계 기구의 형식승인 등에 관한 규칙"이 "소방용품의 품질관리에 관한 규칙"으로 명칭이 변경되었다. 이에 따라 제품검사방법에 제조업체에서 유통 전에 생산시마다 검사하는 생산제품검사와 제조업체의 품질관리에 따라 검사하는 품질제품검사를 도입하는 등 소방검정시스템이 크게 바뀌었으며 이에 따른 주요 변경사항과 소방검정시스템에 대하여 소개하고자 한다.

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Analysis of Injury Types in Korean Disaster (우리나라 인적재해 유형별 손상 분석)

  • Shin, Dong-Min;Lee, In-Soo;Baek, Mi-Lye
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.179-187
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of the study was to injury types in Daegu subway fire accident, Sampung department store collapse, Mokpo airport civil aircraft accident, and Buan sunken ship disaster. The conclusion obtained from these analyses are as following. 1. The total of victims were Sampung department store collapse(l440 people). Buan sunken ship disaster(355 people), Daegu subway fire accident(340 people), and Mokpo airport civil aircraft accident(110 people). 2. The total of dead people were Sampung department store collapse(502 people), Buan sunken ship disaster(287 people), Daegu subway fire accident(192 people), and Mokpa airport civil aircraft accident(66 people). 3. The total of injured people were Sampung department store collapse(938 people), Daegu subway fire accident(148 people), Mokpo airport civil aircraft accident(84 people), and Buan sunken ship disaster(67 people). 4. The major types of victims presented smoke inhalation such as coughing, dyspnea, and sore throat in Daegu subway fire accident. 5. The major types of victims presented crushing(multiple fractures), vertebral, and soft tissues injuries in Sampung department store collapse. 6. The major types of victims presented multiple fractures. In addition to, a lot of people showed vertebral injuries and shock symptoms in Mokpo airport civil aircraft accident. 7. The major types of victims presented drowning as well lots of hypothermia patients in Buan sunken ship disaster. There were a wide variety of types in human disaster. Therefore, the most important disaster training program need to each disaster aspect in the local emergency medical services system. Moreover, the emergency medical services personnel should be understand and training for injury types of each human disaster.

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Characteristics of Protein Foam Agent by Stabilizer on the Ship Fire Extinguishment (선박화재 적용 단백포 소화약제의 안정제에 따른 소화특성)

  • Lee, Eungwoo;Shin, Changsub
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.79-85
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    • 2015
  • Onboard fire extinguishing system is important to protect cargo and human lives and every oil tanker has foam type fire extinguishing system. Because of environmental problem, agent which contains materials such as Perfluorinated compounds are regulated and the development of the environmental friendly agent is required. The protein foam has less environmental pollution problem and has an excellent fire extinguish performance to oil fire. In the research, bivalency metal salts were added as stabilizer to increase fire resistance and stability of the foam. Ferrous sulfate, Iron chloride and Nickel chloride were used and to adjust to vessel, sea water was applied. As a stabilizer increased, the expansion ratio was raised. However 25% drainage time was decreased over 2.0 wt.% which is knowable that the foam brokes easily. The amount of generated foam was measured to check fluidity of foam and it appeared that when $FeSO_4$ 1.2 wt.% was added, the amount of generated foam reached large and also the 25% drainage time was high. To evaluate the fire extinguishing performance for oil fire, the small scale oil fire test was executed. When $FeSO_4$ 1.2 wt.% was added, fire extinguishing time was in its shortest which informs fluidity of foam and stability are important factors on fire extinguishing efficiency.

Concept Design of Fire Safety Module for SV20 Service in the Korean e-Navigation System

  • Kim, Byeol;Moon, Serng-Bae;Hwang, Kwang-Il
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.42 no.5
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    • pp.323-330
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    • 2018
  • The Korean e-Navigation system is a Korean approach to correspond with implementation of IMO e-Navigation. It provides five services, among them SV20 service, a ship remote monitoring system that collects and processes sensor information related to fire, navigation, and seakeeping performance safety. The system also detects abnormal conditions such as fires, capsizing, sinking, navigation equipment failure during navigation, and calculates the safety index and determines the emergency level. According to emergency level, it provides appropriate emergency response guidance for the onboard operator. The fire safety module is composed of three sub-modules; each module is the safety index sub-module, the emergency level determination sub-module and emergency response guidance sub-module. In this study, operational concept of the fire safety module in SV20 service is explained, and fire safety assessment factors are estimated, to calculate the fire safety index. Fire assessment factors included 'Fire detector position factor,' 'Smoke diffusion rate factor,' and 'Fire-fighting facilities factor.'