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The Study on Fire Phenomena in The Deeply Underground Subway Station (대심도 지하역사에서의 화재현상 연구)

  • Jang, Yong-Jun;Kim, Hag-Beom;Lee, Chang-Hyun;Jung, Woo-Sung
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.1773-1780
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    • 2008
  • When the fire occur in the deeply underground subway station, the difficulties of passenger evacuation are expected because of many stairs to the exit. In this study, SOONGSIL-University station (7 line, 47m depth) is the one of the deepest subway stations of the each line in the Seoul metro. The numerical computational-simulation was performed for the fire driven flow in the subway station. Hot and smoke flow was analyzed from the simulation results. The proper plan of evacuation against fire was considered through the results. The fire driven flow was simulated using FDS code in which LES method was applied. The Heat Release Rate was 10MW and the ultrafast model was applied for the growing model of the fire source. The proper mesh size was determined from the characteristic length of fire size. The parallel computational method was employed to compute the flow and heat eqn's in the meshes, which are about 10,000,000, with 6cpu of the linux clustering machine.

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A Study of Heat and Smoke Exhaust to Subway Tunnel Direction (지하철 터널부로의 열 및 연기배출에 관한 연구)

  • Rie, Dong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.19 no.3 s.67
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2004
  • This study aims to derive the operation method of a comprehensive ventilation system which is capable of providing passengers with safe exit paths from platforms in onboard fire situations. To accomplish this, the airflow distributions in subway platforms under 6 types of tunnel vent system were calculated in addition to having analyzed diffusion behaviors of smoke and heat exhaust in such states by performing 6 kinds of different ventilation scenarios in a 3-D Fire Dynamic Simulation (FDS) simulation model. In order to recommend the mechanical smoke exhaust operation mode, Subway Environmental Simulation(SES) is used to predict the airflow of the inlet and outlet tunnel for the subway station to clarify the safety evaluation fir the heat and smoke exhaust on subway fire events.

Introduction of Intelligent fire-disaster Surveillance System for Subway Station (도시철도 역사 지능형 화재감시시스템 구축방안 연구)

  • Shin, Jeong-Ryol;An, Tae-Ki;Jeon, Bo-Ik;Kim, Gab-Young;Kim, Hyung-Min;Yun, Byeong-Ju
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.457-465
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    • 2009
  • Subway system including light-rail transit system is the representative public urban transportation. Accordingly, Nothing is more important than the safety operation as well as passengers' convenience. Due to the fire disaster of Daegu subway on 2003, more strict regulations of detecting fire and of conducting on emergency circumstances. However, regardless of this improved management, it was reported that installations of lots of fire-detection facilities may be harm than good to operate subway system due to frequent malfunction of some fire-detection facilities. It may cause mis-alarm for fire and induces abnormal operation of subway due to the strict regulation; the train shall be stopped on emergency circumstances. Therefore, in this paper, new scheme on surveiling breaking-out-of fire in the station is suggested with new IT technologies, Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) and CCTVs. which were integrated with an intelligent software. This intelligent system enables to surveil breaking-out-of fire in real time through sensor network technology and watch the emergency site on CCTV as well. Through this system, subway organizers could cope with the emergency circumstance rapidly as well as judge precisely whether fire breaks out or not.

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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PASSENGERS' EVACUATION FOR SMOKE-CONTROL MODES IN A SUBWAY STATION (지하역사 제연모드 승객피난 성능평가)

  • Park, Won-Hee;Chang, Hee-Chul;Jung, Woo-Sung;Lee, Han-Su
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.8-12
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    • 2008
  • Heat/smoke detectors are installed in most subway platforms in Korea to detect fire. Subway platform is divided by smoke-control zones for efficient smoke-control. Once the detectors detect heat or smoke, the smoke-control ventilation system in the platform and concourse is activated according to the smoke-control ventilation mode. Smoke-control mode during fires in Korean subway platforms is that the smoke zones operate by exhausting smoke while other zones in the platform and in the concourse which is the upper floor of the platform operate by supplying air or stopping any ventilation. This study is conducted to evaluate performance of passengers' evacuation for various smoke control modes in the subway station. Distribution of smoke and heat due to fire on the platform is analyzed by using Fire Dynamics Simulator(FDS V 4.06) of NIST. Various smoke-control ventilation modes and locations of fire are considered. Evacuation and movement of passengers within the platform is simulated by building EXODUS V.4.0.

A Study on the Design of Evacuation Route at Subway Station Using Simulation Analysis (Simulation 분석을 통한 지하철 역사 피난동선 설계 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Ham, Eun-Gu;Roh, Sam-Kew
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2010
  • Since subway fire disaster at Daegu, Korea smoke control system and passengers evacuation distance has been focused to reform. Existing smoke control facilities need to expand volume of ventilation capacity however, the complicate subway station structure can hardly react dispersion of smokes from massive subway cabin fire. Smoke flow at platform level move upward thought vertical stairway and passengers evacuation goes with same direction. The victims of evacuees from subway station fire mainly due to exposure of heat radiation and smoke. The study demonstration the effect of downward evacuates stairway system by separating evacuation route to smoke movement pass way including saving times of evacuation.

Performance Evaluation of Passengers' Evacuation for Smoke-Control Modes in a Subway Station Based on CFD Results (전산열유체 해석결과를 이용한 지하역사 제연모드 승객피난 성능평가)

  • Park, Won-Hee;Jang, Yong-Jun;Lee, Han-Su;Chang, Hee-Chul;Lee, Duck-Hee
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.276-279
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    • 2008
  • Heat/smoke detectors are installed in most subway platforms in Korea to detect fire. Subway platform is divided by smoke-control zones for efficient smoke-control. Once the detectors detect heat or smoke, the smoke-control ventilation system in the platform and concourse is activated according to the smoke-control ventilation mode. Smoke-control mode during fires in Korean subway platforms is that the smoke zones operate by exhausting smoke while other zones in the platform and in the concourse which is the upper floor of the platform operate by supplying air or stopping any ventilation. This study is conducted to evaluate performance of passengers' evacuation for various smoke control modes in the subway station. Distribution of smoke and heat due to fire on the platform is analyzed by using Fire Dynamics Simulator(FDS V 4.06) of NIST. Various smoke-control ventilation modes and locations of fire are considered. Evacuation and movement of passengers within the platform is simulated by buildingEXODUS V 4.0.

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A transient CFD simulation of ventilation system operation for smoke control in a subway station equipped with a Platform Screen Door(PSD) when a train under fire is approaching the station (화재열차의 역사 접근 시 PSD가 설치된 역사 제연을 위한 환기장치 운전 비정상상태 해석)

  • Shin, Kyu-Ho;Hur, Nahm-Keon;Won, Chan-Shik
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.269-272
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    • 2006
  • The heat and smoke which generated by subway under fire is one of the most harmful factor in air tighten underground station. To prevent this, Trackway Exhaust System(TES) can be used. The heat released from the train running in the tunnel raises the temperature at the platform and the trackway, and thus proper ventilation system is required for comfortable underground environment. When the fire is occurred, TES is operated as smoke exhaust mode from normal ventilation mode. In the present study, the subway station which is one of the line number 9 in Seoul subway is modeled, and fired situation is simulated with several ventilation mode of ventilation system in trackway. For this simulation whole station is modeled. Non steady state 3D simulation which considered train under fire is entering to the station is performed. Temperature and smoke distribution in platform and trackway are compared. To represent heat by fire, heat flux was given to the fired carriage, also to describe smoke by fire, concentration of CO is represented. As the result of present study, temperature and smoke distribution is different as the method of ventilation in trackway and platform is changed. In over side of trackway, the fan must be operated as exhaust mode for efficient elimination of heat and smoke, and supply mode of fan operation in under side shows better distribution of heat and smoke. The ventilation system which is changed from ventilation mode to exhaust mode can be applied to control heat and smoke under fire.

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THE COMPARISON ON THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE FIRE DRIVEN SMOKE-FLOW FOR THE PLATFORM TYPES IN THE DEEPLY UNDERGROUND SUBWAY STATION (대심도 지하철 승강장의 종류별 연기전파특성 비교고찰)

  • Kim, H.B.;Jang, Y.J.;Lee, D.H.;Jung, W.S.;Whang, H.B.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.505-507
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, the comparison on the fire driven smoke flow for platform types was conducted in the Deeply Underground Subway Station. Soongsil-University station (47m depth) as a bank type platform and Mandeok Station as a island type platform were selected for fire numerical simulation. The characteristics of fire driven smoke-flows were analyzed from the simulation results. The proper plan of evacuation against fire for each type was considered through the results.

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The Analysis of the effects of the platform screen door on the fire driven flow in The Deeply Underground Subway Station (대심도 지하역사에서의 화재시 플랫폼 스크린 도어에 의한 열, 연기 거동 영향 분석)

  • Jang, Y.J.;Kim, H.B.;Lee, C.H.;Jung, W.S.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.1984-1989
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    • 2008
  • In this study, fire simulations were performed to analyze the characteristics of the fire driven flow and the effects of the platform screen door on the smoke flow in the station, when the fire occurred in the center of the platform. Soongsil Univ. station (line number 7, 47m in depth underground) was chosen which was the one of the deepest underground subway stations in the Seoul metro, SMRT. The parallel computational method was employed to compute the heat and mass transfer eqn's with 6 CPUs of the linux clustering machine. The fire driven flow was simulated with using FDS code in which LES method was applied. The Heat release rate was 10MW and The Ultrafast model was applied for the growing model of the fire source. The 10,000,000 structured grids were used.

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Study on Disaster Prevention in Case of Fire at Subway Platform with Platform Screen Door

  • Rie, Dong-Ho;Yoon, Sung-Wook;Ko, Jae-Woong;Lee, Keun-Oh
    • International Journal of Safety
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.36-42
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    • 2005
  • A study on fire phenomena in a subway transit mass station has been carried out as a part of disaster prevention plan at the subway station. The ventilation facilities installed in both the platform and the trackway are designed to convert into a smoke exhaust system in emergency situation, creating an environment necessary for evacuation. 3 dimensional Numerical Simulations based on the CFD are carried out using a simulation tool, Fire Dynamic Simulator. Total of six different cases are made and performances are compared each other to find optimal vents operation to ensure safer environment for evacuation at the platform area considering the installation of platform screen door.