Overview of the Legal Design Basis for Passive Fire Protection in Korea and the Direction of Further Development

The design of passive fire protection is applied to minimize the domino effect when a liquid pool occurs due facilities inside process plant. In general, has been using API RP 2218 guideline as basis regardless country or owner However, in Korea, legal regulations dictate that explosive areas should be regarded fireproofing zones rather than following guideline. Because fires and gas atmospheres are different concepts, it wrong from an engineering perspective regard them same. Therefore, plant may more dangerous any other countries. this study, we investigated three categories risk. Korean safety for others not reasonable need studied revised. Specifically, Korea needs revise based on standard accordance with global trends.