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Will Water Mist Extinguish a Liquid Fire Rapidly
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In this article, a series of experiments on discharging water mist from low/moderate-pressure system on gasoline fires were carried out at the new full-scale burning facility, Poly U/USTC Assembly Calorimeter at Lanxi, Harbin, Heilongjiang China.Abstract:
Local professionals are quite worrying about whether a water mist fire suppression system (WMFSS) can extinguish afire rapidly. It was also suggested in the literature that discharging water mist, even under the design operating conditions, might not always control afire rapidly. To explore more on that, a series of experiments on discharging water mist from low/moderate-pressure system on gasoline fires were carried out at the new full-scale burning facility, Poly U/USTC Assembly Calorimeter at Lanxi, Harbin, Heilongjiang China. An interesting point identified for quick communication is that for some designs of fuel container, the liquid fire cannot be extinguished even when all the fuels were consumed.read more
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Estimation of rate of heat release by means of oxygen consumption measurements
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method based on the generalization that the heats of combustion per unit of oxygen consumed are approximately the same for most fuels commonly encountered in fires, which can then be converted to a measure of heat release.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method for determining the heat release rate of a fire using the reduction of oxygen in fire exhaust gases as an indicator of the amount of heat released by the burning test specimens.
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A Closer Look At The Fire Extinguishing Properties Of Water Mist
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a classification of water mists to facilitate discussion of water mist fire suppression systems, including heat extraction, oxygen displacement, and radiation attenuation, and invokes theoretical considerations of vapourlair mixture dilution and kinetic effects at the molecular level.
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