TITLE:
Simulation Emergency Fire Evacuation Model for Nuclear Power Plant
AUTHORS:
Amany F. Abd El-Aal, Adel Zaghloul, Magy M. Kandil
KEYWORDS:
Fire Safety, Fire Evacuation Model, NPP Evacuation, Localization Technique, CFAST Model, DV-Hop Technique, Dijkstra Algorithm
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Power and Energy Engineering,
Vol.9 No.4,
April
14,
2021
ABSTRACT: Simulation of egress is vital for minimizing losses during fire disasters,
however accurate simulations are scarce and real-life data is hard to come by. In
this paper, a Proposed Wireless Fire Evacuation Model (PWFEM) is proposed to simulate
fire evacuation process in a short time to minimize
evacuee’s exposure to the harmful radiation and fire hazards. The PWFEM simulation
realistic by supposing fire scenario at cabined
contains electrical cables inside a standard Main Control Room (MCR) in a Nuclear
Power Plant (NPP) building. In addition, a new Hybrid Safest Shortest Exit (HSSE) is developed which consists
of three stages: safest route based on rules-based
technique, evacuees location based on the DV-hop technique [1] and shortest route that depends on Dijkstra technique. The PWFEM
Simulations are appreciated to yield a realistic fire scenario by using a telecommunications TCP/IP network
in form of server and client sides that help in transfer data inside internal
networks in the NPP building. On the server-side,
suppose that Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (CFAST) fire modeling
is applied to simulate the fire scenario in MCR through CFAST model to generate
fire products as output data in excel sheets and sends them to the client-side.
The client-side then runs HSSE to produce the tree map for safest and shortest routes
to help the evacuee for safe exit from his/her location. HSSE can
be implemented on evacuee’s watches. From the results, it is concluded that PWFEM can simulate the fire scenario inside MCR, furthermore it is validated that HSEE can be used as an efficient emergency fire evacuation
technique that can produce safest and shortest exit route for evacuee in any location
inside NPP in very small time. In addition, PWFEM can be used for simulating fire evacuation
inside any high-risk buildings and can appreciate yielding any realistic fire scenario with many types of fire sources in different
places inside buildings.