On the Design of an Apparatus for Screening Liquid Fire Suppressants.
On the Design of an Apparatus for Screening Liquid Fire
Suppressants.
(397 K)
Yang, J. C.; Donnelly, M. K.; Prive, N. C.;
Grosshandler, W. L.
Interscience Communications Ltd.; National Institute of
Standards and Technology; Building Research
Establishment; and Society of Fire Protection Engineers;
Swedish National Testing and Research Institute.
Interflam 1999. (Interflam '99). International
Interflam Conference, 8th Proceedings. Volume 2. June
29-July 1, 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland, Interscience
Communications Ltd., London, England, 1343-1348 pp,
1999.
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Keywords:
fire science; fire safety; fire suppression; equipment;
effectiveness; halon 1301; wind tunnels; burners;
droplets
Abstract:
This paper discusses the design and use of an apparatus
for evaluating the effectiveness of liquid fire
suppression agents as possible replacements for halon
1301. The apparatus consists of a porous cylindrical
burner located in the test section of a vertical wind
tunnel and a droplet generation system. Liquid droplets
are injected into the flow stream and entrained upward
toward the burner for evaluation. The suppression
effectiveness is ranked based on the conditions at the
transition from one mode of flame (enveloped) to the
other (wake) established at the burner for a given fluid
application rate. The apparatus is currently being used
to test a variety of fluids.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899