POTENTIAL FIRE HAZARDS OF A GREEN SUBWAY STATION WITH NATURAL VENTILATION DESIGN

W.H. Lee; C.L. Chow

doi:10.1615/TFEC2017.ews.018273

POTENTIAL FIRE HAZARDS OF A GREEN SUBWAY STATION WITH NATURAL VENTILATION DESIGN

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Abstract

More green buildings including subway stations are being built in the Asia-Oceania regions. There are potential fire hazards as in other green constructions in the transport system. A subway station in Hong Kong is taken as an example to study the potential fire hazards behind the green constructions. This station has natural ventilation design utilizing wind action. The station is an interchange station to an entertainment park. Passengers are mainly tourists who might be carrying luggage up to 23 kg to give high fire loads. Burning these combustible items would cause a large fire with smoke spread to areas crowded with passengers. Potential smoke hazard due to smoke spread in this green station was studied by Computational Fluid Dynamics. Scenarios with and without wind effect were studied with a 10 MW design fire. Results of the simulation show that wind effect plays an important role in providing natural ventilation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2nd Thermal and Fluid Engineering Conference, TFEC2017 4th International Workshop on Heat Transfer, IWHT2017
Pages	1125-1133
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-56700-470-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1615/TFEC2017.ews.018273
Publication status	Published - Apr 2017
Event	2nd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC) "Engineering Challenges for the Betterment of Society" - Las Vegas, United States Duration: 2 Apr 2017 → 5 Apr 2017 https://www.astfe.org/tfec2017/

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Name	Proceedings of the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference
ISSN (Print)	2379-1748

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Conference	2nd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC) "Engineering Challenges for the Betterment of Society"
Place	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	2/04/17 → 5/04/17
Internet address	https://www.astfe.org/tfec2017/

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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Fire hazards
Green building
Subway stations

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Lee, W. H., & Chow, C. L. (2017). POTENTIAL FIRE HAZARDS OF A GREEN SUBWAY STATION WITH NATURAL VENTILATION DESIGN. In Proceedings of the 2nd Thermal and Fluid Engineering Conference, TFEC2017 4th International Workshop on Heat Transfer, IWHT2017 (pp. 1125-1133). (Proceedings of the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference). https://doi.org/10.1615/TFEC2017.ews.018273

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Lee, WH & Chow, CL 2017, POTENTIAL FIRE HAZARDS OF A GREEN SUBWAY STATION WITH NATURAL VENTILATION DESIGN. in Proceedings of the 2nd Thermal and Fluid Engineering Conference, TFEC2017 4th International Workshop on Heat Transfer, IWHT2017. Proceedings of the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, pp. 1125-1133, 2nd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC) "Engineering Challenges for the Betterment of Society", Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 2/04/17. https://doi.org/10.1615/TFEC2017.ews.018273

POTENTIAL FIRE HAZARDS OF A GREEN SUBWAY STATION WITH NATURAL VENTILATION DESIGN. / Lee, W.H.; Chow, C.L.
Proceedings of the 2nd Thermal and Fluid Engineering Conference, TFEC2017 4th International Workshop on Heat Transfer, IWHT2017. 2017. p. 1125-1133 (Proceedings of the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference).

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