4 ijaers feb 2016 15 hot ice crystal sheet for fire control in highrise buildings

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International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS)

[Vol-3, Issue-2, Feb- 2016] ISSN: 2349-6495

Hot Ice Crystal Sheet for Fire Control in Highrise Buildings Prof. Dr. A. W. Dhawale1, Abhinav Rai2

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HOD Civil Engineering Department, J.S.PM’s Imperial College of Engineering And Research, Wagholi, India 2 Post Graduate Student of J.S.P.M’s Imperial College of Engineering And Research, Wagholi, India

Abstract—This paper addresses the approach to minimize the losses of life and property during extreme fire hazards in the high rise buildings. The basic principle behind this is to restrict the fire in a particular zone such that it will not spread in vertical as well as horizontal direction in between the floors. The aim of this study is to restrict the fire spread which will lead to the increase in efficiency of emergency response team by providing them a confined target to work on. Fire in a building can be divided into two main zones i.e. Red zone and Black zone. Red zone is the point of origin of the fire where temperature is very high and smoke is generated at increased rates so this zone needs speedy emergency evacuation plans. Black zone is the area where temperature of the smoke is very less as compared to Red zone so it can be considered as the secondary target during the rescue operations. For achieving safety; performance based design is required. In this paper the use of Hot Ice Crystal sheet is discussed for fire control. The argument is also made regarding the comparative performance of the above mentioned technique with the rest. Keywords—Black zone, Disaster management, Emergency provisions, Fire protection, hot Ice Crystal Sheet, Performance based design, Red zone, Smoke generation. I. INTRODUCTION Being one of the largest countries in the world and possessing one of the largest populations in the world; India still has lots of areas where it is lagging behind in comparison with the topmost economies in the world. As we know India has a population about 1.3 billion and is increasing at an unbelievable rates. Since, the availability of the land is limited and demands for their accommodation and various other needs is increasing ;people are opting for various high rise buildings and skyscrapers for their residential, commercial, industrial, manufacturing and various other needs. With the increasing heights of the buildings and due to use of various advanced building

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materials and services nowadays; enormous risks related to it is also increasing and one of the most important risk related to it is risk of life and property due to fire hazards in high rise buildings. According to India Risk Survey 2015 by Pinkerton and FICCI; the risk due to fire hazards is shown below:

Fig. 1: Overall Risk Rankings These risks are arising due to the advancement of the building materials to be used and due to provision of various luxurious services depending on the type of building which leads to increased loads on the power supplies of the building. National Fire Code does not contain the risk related to the latest building services so the steps to mitigate these risks are not present in them which minimizes the efficiency of the rescue operations due to insufficient data. Therefore; these risks should be analyzed with greater accuracy and steps should be identified to mitigate the same which would lead to increase the efficiency of emergency rescue operations. “Precaution is better than Prevention” this justifies the entire safety norms and this should be taken care with utmost priority in the civil engineering works. Thus, the structures should be designed by keeping in mind all these risks related to fire during construction of the buildings. This would lead to a performance based design and will enable fire safety officers to execute their evacuation strategies with greater efficiency. Page | 15


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