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A Study on the Effects of an Increase in the Height of Ship's Accommodation Area on Safe Evacuation in Emergency Situation (선박 거주구역의 높이가 피난안전에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Won-Ouk;Kim, Jong-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.69-73
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    • 2011
  • Unlike land fires, Fires on board a ship are not likely to be extinguished by skilled human resources using a variety of fire fighting equipments, but have to be brought under control on board a ship itself despite of difficult task. There are more cases of deaths from suffocation by smoke than from an increased temperature by heat in fires on board ships, because crew fail to secure a sufficient visibility range enough to escape from the scene of a fire or to leave the ship as early as possible. On the assumption that the height of ship's accommodation area increases from 2.0m to 2.3m comparable to the height of apartments on the ground in Korea, behaviors of fire smokes between the cases of 2.0m and 2.3m heights were compared and analyzed. Based on the blue print of the existing Training Ship "Hanbada", a new blueprint with the 30 cm height adjustment was additionally created. FDS (Fire Dynamic Simulator), which was created by the NIST in the United States and is the most widely distributed simulator for fires, was used to conduct a simulation and predict results. The results of simulation on the basis of temperature of $60^{\circ}C$ showed a safe evacuation period of time at the position 10m apart from the scene of a fire to increase by 55.8 seconds, when the height of ship's accommodation area increased from 2.0m to 2.3m. The results of simulation on the basis of visibility range of 6m showed the safe evacuation periods of time at the positions 10m, 20m and 30m apart from the scene of a fire to increase by 27.1 seconds, 109.2 seconds and 73.3 seconds, respectively, as the height of ship's accommodation area increased from 2.0m to 2.3m. This means that crew can escape more safely from a scene of fires on board when the height of ship's accommodation area is increased and equal to the height of living room in a building on land.

Method for Preventing Asphyxiation Accidents by a CO2 Extinguishing System on a Ship (선박 내 CO2 소화설비에 의한 질식사고 방지 기법)

  • Ha, Yeon-Chul;Seo, Jung-Kwan;Hwang, Jun-Ho;Im, Kichang;Ryu, Sang-Hoon
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2015
  • Carbon dioxide extinguishing systems are broadly used for onshore and offshore fire accidents because of excellent performance and low cost. However, there is risk with carbon dioxide systems, which have caused many injuries and deaths by suffocation associated with industrial and marine fire protection applications. In this study, a numerical analysis was performed to predict the fire suppression characteristics of a carbon dioxide system in the compressor room of ships. A double protection safety system is suggested to prevent suffocation accidents from carbon dioxide extinguishing systems. Four scenarios were selected to study the variation of the heat release rate, maximum temperature, a $CO_2$ and $O_2$ mole fraction, and fire suppression characteristics with the carbon dioxide system. The importance of proper design is suggested for a ventilation system in the compressor room of ships.

An Introduction of Pumps Installed for Marine Use (선박용 펌프의 소개)

  • Lee, Sang-Il;Lee, Young-Ho;Kim, You-Taek
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.363-366
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    • 2006
  • Various kinds of ships(Cargo ship, Passenger ship, Training ship, Special ship etc.) are operated to transport cargo or passengers at sea in the world. Most of the important auxiliary machinery which is installed are fluid machinery in those ships. A large percentage of fluid machinery is pumps which are classified turbo and non-turbo type. While much previous research has focused on pumps for shore use, very little is known about ship's pump. In order to develop an understanding of ship's pump, we introduce common pumps used in every ship and special pumps based on ship's type. This exploratory study lays the groundwork for further investigation of ship's pumps

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A Paper on the Relation of Ship Management and Obligation to Exercise Due Diligence in Making the Vessel Seaworthy (선박관리와 감항능력주의의무에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Jun-Sik
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.121-139
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    • 2005
  • The case, Papera Traders Co. Ltd. and Others v. Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. Ltd and Another(The Eurasian Dream), was occurred on July, 1998 when the ISM Code became mandatory under SOLAS and from that date it applied to oil tankers, chemical tankers, gas carriers, bulk carriers and cargo high-speed craft of 500 gross tonnage and above. On July 23, 1998, a fire started on the deck of pure car carrier Eurasian Dream while in port at Sharjah. The source of fuel was the stevedores action of pouring petrol or transferring fuel in some way - refueling or pouring into a carburettor. The fire eventually destroyed or damaged the vessels cargo of new and second-hand vehicles and rendered the vessel itself a constructive total loss. Justice Cresswell held that the fire that destroyed or damaged the cargo was due to the unseaworthiness of the vessel they have the burden of proving that the vessel was unseaworthy before and at the beginning of the voyage and that the loss or damage was caused by that unseaworthiness. This case was a dispute between dependent and claimant alleging that the carrier should provide "properly man, equip and supply the ship and keep the ship so manned" under Hague-Visby Rules. Although ISM code was not officially applied to the carriage by car carriers until July 2002, a rule based on the code had customarily been employed as a mean for international dispute resolution. Examining the above case closely, the purpose of this study is to explore the relation of ship management and obligation to exercise due diligence in making the vessel seaworthy.

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Improvement of Citadel Structure on Board Ship Using FDS (화재 시뮬레이션을 이용한 선원대피처의 구조 개선에 관한 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.306-311
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    • 2015
  • Recently, vessel hijacking by pirates has been a big issue around the world. In case of the hostages of M/V "SAMHO Jewelry" on January 20, 2011, the Korean Navy has rescued 21 seafarers by first naval operation with somalia pirates since establishment of the Navy. Also, in case of the "HANJIN Tianjin", all crews evacuated to the Citadel promptly when being attacking by pirates and were safely rescued by the navy. By the accident, Necessity of Citadel for seafarer on board ship came to the fore against pirates. Taking in account increasing pirates accident at sea, many research relating to pirates has been implementing with a view to responding to them so far. By amending the ship facility regulation in the domestic law on Jan. 2011, the installment of Citadel on board ship became mandatory for ocean going vessel serving pirates area. Hence, this paper provides new model of Citadel structure based on an Fire Dynamic simulation in order to improve personal safety in case of vessel hijacking.

A Measurement of Passengers' Walking Speed on Passenger Ship(II) (연안여객선 일반 승선자의 보행속도 실측(II) -비숙련 일반인을 대상으로 한 실험-)

  • Hwang, Kwang-Il;Son, Byeung-Hun;Na, Wook-Jung;Ahn, Chang-Hwan;Hong, Won-Hwa;Lee, Soo-Ho;Koo, Jae-Hyeok;Jeon, Byeong-Cheong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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    • 2012.06a
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    • pp.206-207
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    • 2012
  • We need to develop intelligent smart card made unskilled general public's to the shelter on Passenger Ship. prior to development, we have to study passenger of characteristic. so we researched about domestic unskilled general public's of walking speed in refuge situation.

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On the Development of the Generic CFCS for Engineering Level Simulation of the Surface Ship (공학수준 수상함 지휘무장통제체계 범용 모델 개발방안 연구)

  • Jung, Young-Ran;Han, Woong-Gie;Kim, Cheol-Ho;Kim, Jae-Ick
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.380-387
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we considered the authoritative representation of Command and Fire Control System(CFCS) for the surface ship that was the engineering level model to develop system specifications and to analyze operational concepts on the concept design phase and to analyze military requirements, effectiveness and performance for the system. The engineering level model of CFCS can be used in simulation independently of the surface ship's type, and also it takes reuse, interoperability, and extension into consideration. The detailed sub-models, internal and external data interface, data flow among each sub-model, sensor and weapon models about the engineering level model of CFCS was defined. It was verified via engineering level simulations according to the V&V process.

A Study on the improvement the efficiency of the evacuation of the ship's crews (선박 승무원의 피난 효율 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Won-Ouk;Kim, Jong-Su
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2013.06a
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    • pp.153-154
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    • 2013
  • In this study, we used the program of three-dimensional analysis of fire for analyzing visibility of smoke flow and temperature of the accommodation area what is required for the analysis of survival of the crew. In particular, I would like to propose a method for reducing the flow rate performance in order to reduce the suffocation from the smoke of the majority of personal injury. Existing vessels are designed to close the fire door automatically when the fire alarm issued. When there is no crew that dared to escape, it can delay the spread of fire and smoke flow which is determined to be very useful to improve the survival rate of the crew. However, it can be fatal to the crew whose rooms are located on the inside of the fire door that has not completed the evacuation. In this study, we check the smoke flow rate and rate of temperature rise when crew open the fire door what is closed due to fire and compare to the structure of the blocking layer.

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