• 한국안전학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2009

Effective way of cooking oil fire extinguishment is using water mist system which has cooling and smothering effects. Low pressure water mist system has advantage because it is compatible with existing sprinkler systems. To increase the effectiveness of low pressure water mist system, additives can be used which increase the momentum of water particle and the chemical effect. In this experiment, aqueous film forming form(AFFF) agent is used as additive and the effect of additive concentration and water pressure are experimented. For the extinguishment of cooking oil fire such as soybean and olive oils, AFFF agent is effective and can decrease the fire extinguishing time and water consumption.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.261-267
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• 2003

The present study investigates the fire suppression characteristics using a water mist fire suppression system. Numerical simulations of fire suppression with water mist are performed with considering the interaction of fire plume and water droplet, droplet evaporation, and combustion of pool fire. The predicted temperature fields of smoke layer are compared with that of measured data. Numerical results agree with the experimental results within 5$^{\circ}C$ in the case without water mist In the case of fire suppression with water mist, numerical results dose not predict well lot temperature field in the gradual cooling region after water mist injection. But the predicted results of initial fire suppression are in good agreement with that of measured data. The reason of the discrepancy between predicted and measured data is due to the variation of turning rate during the injection of water mist. The effect of burning rate on the fire suppression is left as future study.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2008

This experiments are perfol1ned to investigate the effect of ventilation velocity on a high pressure water mist tire suppression in train. The experiment is conducted in half scale modeled train of a steel-welled enclosure (5.0m${\times}$2.4m${\times}$2.2m). The ventilation velocity is controlled by the ventilation duct through an inverter in the range of 0 to 3m/s. The coverage-radius and an injection angle of an high pressure water mist system are measured. The mist nozzle with 5-injection holes is operated with pressure 60bar. The heptane pool fires are used. The fire extinguishment times and the temperature are measured for the ventilation velocities. In conclusion, because the momentum of injected water mist is more dominant than that of ventilation air, the characteristics of water mist, the fire extinguishment times and the temperature are affected very little by ventilation velocity.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.78-84
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 형식이 각기 다른 3종류의 미분무수 노즐을 사용하여 방사높이와 화염의 위치 변화에 따른 소화성능 실험과 포 소화약제를 혼합한 소화성능 실험을 수행했다. 소화성능 실험에서는 미분무수 노즐의 높이를 4m, 3.5m, 3m로 변화를 주었으며 연료 팬을 노즐 중심으로부터 0m, 0.5m, 1m의 변화를 주었다. 포 소화약제는 3%형 AFFF(Aqueous Film Forming Foam)를 사용하였다. 실험결과 개구부의 유무는 소화에 미치는 영향이 적었으며, 포 소화약제를 혼합한 미분무수의 소화성능은 약제를 혼합하지 않은 경우에 비하여 우수하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.367-373
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• 2003

The present study investigates the fire suppression characteristics using a water mist fire suppression system. The fire extinguishing times are measured for various fire sources, fuel types, and different total flooding rates of water mist. Pool fire with hydrocabon fuel is successfully extinguished within a minute under the operating conditions of the water mist system. Two different regimes of the smoke layer cooling are observed, such as rapid and slow cooling processes. The regimes are divided by threshold time which is calculated with auto-correlation function. The threshold time for the initial cooling decreases with increasing water flow-rates and fire sources. These initial cooling effects play an important role in preventing the occurance of flashover fire by the initial fire suppression.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2009

미분무 소화시스템을 이용하여 철도차량 내부 화재진압 실험을 수행하였다. 실험차량은 실물 철도차량이며, 화재시나리오는 표면화재 1종, 유류화재 1종, 그리고 미분무 소화시스템에 의한 화재 공간 내의 공간 냉각 능력을 조사하기 위한 차폐화재 1종 등 총 3종이었다. 실험에 사용된 소화시스템은 6종으로, 일정압력을 가지는 소화시스템 5종, 질소가압 압력용기로부터 분사되는 소화시스템 1종이다. 실험 결과 미분무 소화시스템이 철도 차량 내부의 화재를 효과적으로 소화시키거나, 소화가 되지 않더라도 우수한 공간 냉각 능력으로 화재 피해를 최소화할 수 있음을 알았다.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.64-70
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• 2012

Water mist fire suppression systems which use relatively small droplets of water with high injection pressure are increasingly being used in wider applications because of its greater efficiency, low flooding damage and low toxicity. However, the performance of the system significantly relies on the water mist characteristics and it requires better understanding of fire suppression mechanism of water mist. In the present study, computational fluid dynamics simulations were carried out to investigate cooling performance of water mist in heated chamber. The gas phase was prepared with natural convection heat transfer model for incompressible ideal case and then the effects of water mist injection characteristics on cooling capabilities were investigated upon the basis of the pre-determined temperature field. For the simulation of water mist behavior, Lagrangian discrete phase model was employed by using a commercial code, FLUENT. Smaller droplet sizes, greater injection angles and higher flow rates provided relatively higher cooling performance.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.15-26
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• 2009

This research has so far found out problems including the second damage of extinguishant and the short time of emission when using the existing dry chemical extinguisher and gas type extinguisher, and impossibility of constant extinguishing due to the inability of recharge at the field. To solve such problems, a mobile water mist system was developed and used. However, it is judged that more improved mobile water mist system is necessary because the force of the fire changed diversely and remote villages in mountains or islands where the force of fire extinguishing is short or delayed, require high capacity of fire extinguishing. Therefore a new equipment was developed and tested focusing on the improvement of extinguishing capacity and the performance of extinguishing was found out to be improved, compared to the existing mobile water mist system. It also showed a superior extinguishing capacity to dry chemical extinguisher or gas type extinguisher. Afterward an additional research is required of simplification of equipment, price cutting and the development of additive to enable high performance even with just small extinguishant.

• 한국마린엔지니어링학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국마린엔지니어링학회 2005년도 후기학술대회논문집
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• pp.132-133
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• 2005

A study to evaluate the fire extinguishing performance of the water mist system inside simulated machinery spaces according to IMO MSC/Circ.668 was performed. Fire tests were conducted inside a compartment having a area 100$m^2$(10m${\times}$10m) with a ceiling height of 10m and door opening of 2m${\times}$2m in size. Test fuels were used heptane, diesel, wood crib and mineral oil. Water mist nozzles were installed downward at ceiling and horizontally at bilge area. All fires in the test were extinguished within 15minutes of system activation and there was no reignition or fire spread.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.625-629
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• 2006

This paper describes the effect of the droplet breakup process on fire suppression using a water-mist system, which is considered as a alternative to sprinkler fire suppression system. In the evolution of the water-mist, the droplet breakup process is an important phenomenon because it may significantly affect the droplet evaporation rate. The Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS, Ver. 4.0) code, which is widely used for the simulation of fire dynamics, is used for the present simulation, and it is modified to consider the droplet breakup phenomena. The Prediction by the modified code shows good agreement with experimental data for the temperature. The original FDS predicts higher temperature about $30^{\circ}C$ than experimental data. From the results, it is concluded that the droplet breakup phenomena must be considered for more precise simulation of fire suppression process.