TITLE:
Study on Design of Pressure Chamber in a Linear-Jet Type Air Curtain System for Prevention of Smoke Spread
AUTHORS:
Jung-Yup Kim, Su-Gak Lee
KEYWORDS:
Smoke Spread Prevention, Linear Jet, Air Curtain System, Fire, Numerical Analysis, Experiment
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics,
Vol.7 No.4,
December
7,
2017
ABSTRACT: Death toll by smoke in fire is estimated at 70% which emphasizes the importance of smoke control system to deal with the fire smoke. In advanced countries, the studies on method to prevent smoke spread by forming the air curtain using high velocity jet flow are underway now. In this study, a linear-jet type air curtain system is proposed to prevent the smoke spread and analysis of flow characteristics of pressure chamber, which is the core component, is conducted through numerical analysis and experimental approach. Consequently, the pressure was increased in 2D functional way to input air flowrate and about 595 Pa pressure was formed at pressure chamber inlet in response to 30 m/s nozzle jet velocity.