- Author
- Evans, D. D.
- Title
- Overview of Fire Suppression With Water.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute/Eastern States Section. Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion. 1988 Technical Meeting. December 5-7, 1988, Clearwater Beach, FL, D/1-6 p., 1988
- Keywords
- fire suppression | water | sprinkler systems | fire fighting | drop sizes
- Abstract
- Water is the typical agent used to suppress unwanted fires. It is used in both fixed sprinkler systems and manual fire fighting. Most large fires are suppressed with water. But the lack of quantitative understanding of suppression dynamics prevents engineering analysis of fire fighting systems.