- Author
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Mawhinney, J. R.
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Richardson, J. K.
- Title
- State-of-the-Art Review of Water Mist Fire Suppression Research and Development, 1996.
- Coporate
- Hughes Associates, Inc., Baltimore, MD
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Report
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IRC-IR-718
June 21, 1996
36 p.
- Keywords
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water mist
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fire suppression
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fire research
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research facilities
- Identifiers
- agencies and associated work in progress - agencies involved in water mist research and development; subjects or issues and associated agencies - list of 17 subject areas for discussion and comment
- Abstract
- Over the last five decades, at least, there have been various episodes of research and development work that has sought to maximize the efficiency of using water for fire suppression by applying it as a very fine spray. In the mid-1950's Braidech et al studied and described the fundamental principles of extinguishment of liquid and solid fuel fires using finely divided water sprays. Work published between 1959 and 1961 by Rasbash et al. further explored the relationship between drop size distribution and spray velocity for extinguishment of hydrocarbon pool fires. During the 1960's and 1970's studies occurred in a variety of settings, from university laboratories to industry and government research facilities. Work done by the U.S. Navy in the late 1970's culminated in a working design for what would today be called a fixed water mist fire suppression system for machinery space fires.