Performance Evaluation of Fire Protection Systems in High-Tech Facilities

• Main Authors: Wen-Kai Hsieh, 謝文凱
• Other Authors: San-Ping Ho
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89753980833751186126

碩士 === 長榮大學 === 職業安全與衛生學系碩士在職專班 === 102 === This study is focusing on the fire equipment of the high-tech workshop and compared the installation of the fire equipment with other countries. Through the maintenance reports and actual case studies, it is able to verify the efficacy of the fire equipment and hence achieve the maximum fire protection and response. Maintenance report has shown that installation of AMHS (Automated Material Handling System) occupied the space of smoke compartments (smoke hanging wall). Such act is illegal and will bring catastrophic consequence if fire occurs. Recently, under the Article 6 of the Fire Services Act, few high-tech workshops propose an alternative for“1st Paragraph of Article 188th of Standards for Installation of Fire Safety Equipment Based on Use and Occupancy”, which is replacing it with the use of FDS and SIMULEX computer simulation software with the industrial smoke control. Above method can be served as a reference for other high-tech workshop. Furthermore, due to the specific environments contained in the high-tech workshops and request by the insurance companies, the high-tech workshop normally would install ASD (Aspirating smoke detector) voluntarily; VESDA is the most common setting among others. The research compiled the record data of VESDA from five different high-tech companies in the period from 2010 to 2012. This helps to verify the efficacy of VESDA and find out the cause of dysfunction. In the situation of cleanroom with high-velocity ventilation, VESDA is more effective than the traditional smoke detector. Therefore, several high-tech companies have suggested replacing the traditional smoke detectors with VESDA in cleanrooms and have been approved by the Fire Department. The action satisfies the requirement set by the law and allow saving the budget of the devices. Hence, the idea of replacing traditional smoke detector with VESDA can be used as reference for other high-tech company or similar industries.