• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.141-146
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• 2016

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the basic data (e.g. education experience and awareness of the installation situation, and usage of indoor fire hydrants) for the effective planning, progress and improvement of fire safety education. For this purpose, we surveyed 198 participants and an analysis of the frequency and descriptive statistics based on the survey data was carried out using SPSS 20.0 for Windows. The analysis results showed that 87.9% of the research participants live in accommodation with indoor fire hydrants installed and that, among them, 17.7%, did not know their location. 63.6% of the research participants, had received fire safety education but, among them, 31.0% had never been educated about the use of indoor fire hydrants. The main type of fire education was instructor-led training, which represented 50.0% of the participants. We believe that the results of this paper will serve as a basis for efficient adult fire safety education.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.57-63
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• 2012

The modern trend for high-rise buildings makes the application of fire protection systems difficult and the current systems have a limitation to provide appropriate functions. Indoor hydrant systems are fire suppression systems installed in most buildings that require valves, hoses, and nozzles to be manually operated in the event of a fire. Therefore, high discharge pressure can cause difficulty in the operation of indoor fire hydrant systems and damage to hoses due to a high reaction force. To prevent these problems, the pressure is reduced and decompression valves are commonly installed at angle valves which are the discharge points of indoor hydrants. In the case of high-rise buildings, however, there are cases where stable operation is difficult even with the installation of decompression valves. To verify this, we have measured the decompression performance by the orifice diameter and calculated the reaction force. Results of the study showed that decompression valves need to be produced in different sizes to provide stable decompression where high pressure is required as in high-rise buildings.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.535-539
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• 2022

This study analyzed the efficient hose loading method for indoor fire hydrants, and the experimental results are as follows. An effective fire hose loading method is to be derived through an experiment comparing the fire hose loading method of an indoor fire hydrant and the speed of fire suppression. When the fire hose was loaded by folding, it took an average of 33 seconds to load the fire hose, and for the hangyeopsal, it took an average of 69 seconds to load the fire hose, showing a significant difference. First, in the folding hose deployment experiment, subjects A, C, D, and E showed similar values from 34 seconds to 37 seconds, respectively. The reason seems to be the result of the fact that the fire hose was not twisted when unfolding, and that it was possible to deploy the hose smoothly. Subject B showed the lowest deployment time at 25 seconds, which seems to be the result of B's experience in deploying the fire hose. Second, in the hose unfolding experiment, subjects A, B, C, and E had a similar time period of 44 to 76 seconds, respectively. However, the test subject D was significantly higher at 110 seconds. The reason is that the attempt to prevent hose kinking when deploying the fire hose and the unstable psychological state through tension are judged to increase the fire hose deployment time.