This study analyzed and identified various causes of caustic alarms of 163 fire detectors that occurred from January 2019 to December 2021 at domestic semiconductor manufacturing plants equipped with about 30,000 fire detectors, and proposed a new non-fire prevention cause investigation plan by applying the NFPA 921 scientific methodology. The results of the study are as follows. First, in terms of necessary recognition and problem definition, an analog detector and an integrated monitoring system were proposed to quickly determine the location and installation space information of the fire detector. Second, in order to prevent speculative causes and errors in various analyses in terms of data analysis and hypothesis establishment, non-fire reports were classified into five by factor and defined, and the causes of occurrence by factor were classified and proposed. Finally, in terms of hypothesis verification and final hypothesis selection, a non-fire prevention improvement termination process and a final hypothesis verification sheet were proposed to prevent the cause from causing re-error.

막소재는 투과증발 막공정에서 메탄을 저항체로 잘 알려진 Poly(vinyl alcohol, PVA)과 술폰기가 있는 가교제 sulfo-succinic acid(SSA)를 PVA에 대해 17 wt.%로 고정시켜 제조하였다. 이에 이온교환능력을 향상시키기 위해 양이온교환기가 포함된 poly(acrylic acid, PAA)를 첨가하여 함량변화에 따라 메탄올투과도 (methanol permeability) 특성과 이온전도도(ion conductivity)를 측정하였으며, 기본적인 이온교환막의 특성인 함수율 (water content), 이온교환용량 (ion exchange capacity, IEC) 등을 측정하였다. PAA함량에 따른 메탄을 투과도와 이온전도도 결과는 SSA만을 사용했을 때 보다 전체적으로 감소하는 경향을 나타났는데 이는 PAA의 함량 증가를 통하여 가교도의 증가로 인한 자유부피감소가 카르복실기인 양이온교환기 도입 영향보다 더 크게 작용한 것으로 판단된다 이온전도도와 메탄올투과도의 결과로부터 'vehicle mechanism'이 본 실험에서 제조된 PVA/SSA/PAA막에서 더 우세한 영향을 미쳤을 것이라 사료된다.