육상 및 해상에서의 화재 사고는 심각한 인명피해를 발생시키며 특히 해양 플랜트 및 선박의 특성 상 밀폐공간으로 인한 질식 사고 사망률이 육상보다 현저히 높다. 이러한 질식사고를 예방하기 위하여 화재에서 발생하는 유독가스를 외부로 배출할 수 있는 환기용 팬의 설치가 필수적이나, 해양화재의 규모를 고려하였을 때 대형 환기용 팬의 설치는 해양 구조물 특성상 용이하지 않다. 따라서 본 연구 에서는 DC 전기장을 인가하여 화재 유독가스를 제어하는 새로운 개념의 소방기술을 개발하고자 한다. 화재 발생 시 대부분의 화염은 화학 이온화로 인해 양전하와 음전하를 다수 함유하고 있고, 이때 전기장을 인가하게 되면 로렌츠 힘에 의해 “이온풍”이 발생하게 된다. 이러한 이온풍을 활용하여 일반건축물과 선박의 단열재로 많이 사용되는 종이와 스티로폼을 연소하여 발생되는 화재연기를 인위적으로 제어하는 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 실험 결과, ± 5 kV 이상의 직류전압을 인가하였을 때 화재연기를 인위적으로 제어할 수 있었고, 양전압 보다 음전압을 인가하였을 때 상대적으로 효과적인 제어가 가능하였다.

In this paper which was performed to bring public attention to the need for developing an photoelectric smoke detector that detects smokes emitted from diverse fire sources, it was confirmed that the photoelectric smoke detector may not respond to certain smoke types depending on the size and color of smoke particles. The test was performed on a photoelectric smoke detector which is being used generally for specific fire targets specified in UL268, including paper fire, wood fire and flammable liquid fire, while the actual response performance of the fire detector, as well as respective smoke particles collected from different fire source which were photographed with a SEM(Scanning electron microscope) were analyzed in the test for this study.

This study investigated the smoke blocking and control systems for the safety of residents evacuation and for the prevention of smoke spread through the central corridor in the event of central corridor type of intelligent building fire. We offered additional ways of utilizing smoke ventilators and intake ventilation equipment and utilized CFD-based fire simulation program(FDS Ver.5.5.3) in order to analyze the effect. As a result, many differences in the smoke block effect, depending on the application of smoke ventilator and location of installation, was found. In addition, the result was found that larger effect was showed not in the case of application of smoke ventilator in central corridor only but application in fire room. The reason is that the smoke leakage is blocked primarily as air is flowed in the fire room through open door by operation of intake smoke ventilator in the public corridor and secondarily, the smoke leakage to the public corridor could be blocked as fire and smoke were released to the opened smoke ventilator continuously. Especially, the effect was maximized through complex interactions by applying smoke ventilator and intake ventilation equipment in corridor together rather than applying smoke ventilator and intake ventilation equipment independently. The proposed measure through this study shall be considered from architectural plan as one of ways for blocking from smoke spread to the central corridor in the central corridor type of intelligent building. In addition, flaws on regulation shall be established and supplemented.

The power of semiconductor, Korea is continuously constructing semiconductor production line for keeping a front-runner status. however, studies and data about potential risks in semiconductor factory are still short. If fire does not initially suppressed, the fire causes a great damage. To decrease fire risk factors, in addition to fire fighting safety equipment, more important thing is how to design and construct fire protection system. The current fire protection codes about semiconductor factory come under functional law, and this law is short of consideration about particularity of factory. The existing prescriptive fire codes depending on experience compose without evident engineering verifications, thus equipments which is created by the current prescriptive fire code may bring about a variety of problems. For example, the design under the current regulation can not cope with the excessive investments, low efficiencies, and the diversifying construction designs and be applied to the quick changes of new technologies. Ergo, an optimal design for fire protection is to equip fire protection arrangements with condition and environment of production field. Manufacturing factory of semiconductors is a windowless airtight space. And for cleanliness, there exists strong flow of cooperation. Therefore, there is a need for fire safety design that meets the characteristic of a clean room. Accordingly, we are to derive smoke flow according to cooperation process within a clean room and construction plan of an optimal sensor system. In this study, in order to confirm the performance of proposed smoke-exhaust equipment and suggest efficient smoke exhaust device when there is a fire of 1MW of methane in the clean room of company H, we have implemented fire simulation using fluid dynamics computation.

항해 중 발생하는 선박의 화재는 외부로부터 소방 활동을 기대할 수 없으므로 선내에서 자체적으로 처리해야 하기 때문에 매우 위험하다. 더구나 여객선의 경우에는 재산상의 피해는 물론이고, 대형 인명 사고로 이어질 수 있으므로 더욱 심각하다 화재가 발생하며 연소과정에서 열 뿐만 아니라 많은 연기가 동시에 발생하고 다량의 유독성 연기는 질식사와 같은 인명피해를 가져오게된다. 이 연구의 목적은 선박의 실내공간에서 화재의 크기 및 위치에 따른 연기거동 특성을 규명하는 것이다. 화원의 크기를 두가지로 하고 세가지 형태의 화재 위치에 따라 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 그 견과 연기 및 열의 확산 특성은 모서리형 화재에서 가장 가파른 상승 곡선을 보였다.

In this paper, we describe a sensor module that monitors fire environment by analyzing fire characteristics. We analyzed the smoke characteristics of indoor fire. Six different environments were defined according to the type of smoke and the flame, and the sensors available for each environment were combined. Based on this analysis, the sensors were selected from the perspective of firefighter. The sensor module consists of an RGB camera, an infrared camera and a radar. It is designed with minimum weight to fit on the robot. the enclosure of sensor is designed to protect against the radiant heat of the fire scene. We propose a single camera mode, thermal stereo mode, data fusion mode, and radar mode that can be used depending on the fire scene. Thermal stereo was effectively refined using an image segmentation algorithm, SLIC (Simple Linear Iterative Clustering). In order to reproduce the fire scene, three fire test environments were built and each sensor was verified.

최근 도심지와 산간지역에 설치되는 도로터널의 경우 터널개소의 증가와 장대화로 화재 사고가 점차 증가되고 있어 터널의 방재시설 강화가 요구되고 있다. 하지만 터널화재 발생시 대규모 인명피해가 발생될 수 있는 연기질식사 방지를 위한 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 화재발생시 연기확산을 차단하여 질식사 최소화 및 대피시간을 확보 할 수 있는 에어커튼 시스템을 개발하였다. 에어커튼 시스템은 방재설계 사례를 기준으로 시뮬레이션(CFD)을 통한 최적화 방안(분사각도, 분사량 등)을 도출하였으며, 실내 Lab Test 및 실제 도로터널서 화재실험을 실시한 결과 차연성능을 발휘하였다. 이론적/실험적 검증을 통한 에어커튼 시스템 도입을 통하여 도로터널의 인명피해를 최소화 할 수 있는 새로운 방재시설로 발전되길 기대한다.