The Experimental Study on the Fire Suppression Effectiveness of Water Mist with the FeCl₂ Additives

Abstract:

This paper presents an experimental study of fire suppression effectiveness with water mist containing FeCl₂ additives.The investigation focuses on suppression effectiveness under various FeCl₂ additives concentrations,working pressures and nozzle different height above the fire source . The experimental results show that: there is a significant impact on fire suppression effectiveness when adding FeCl₂ to water mist. There is an optimum additive concentration of extinguishing fire, corresponding to the shortest extinguishing time, the least amount of water, the highest efficiency of extinguishing fire. The nozzle working pressures and nozzle position have effect on the performance of the water mist extinguishing: the greater the pressure is, the shorter water mist fire extinguishing time is. Under the same experimental conditions, the closer the water mist nozzles are to the oil pan, the shorter extinguishing time is.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 790)
• Pages: 53-56
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.790.53
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Chen Jian, Xu Yan Ying, Wang Na
• Keywords: FeCl₂ Additives, Pool Fire, Water Mist

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