Fire suppression by water sprays

G Grant, J Brenton, D Drysdale - Progress in energy and combustion …, 2000 - Elsevier
fire-fighting efficiency of a water spray. It is equally important to know how the spray spreads
out after leaving the nozzle; … The analytical model was found to be in good agreement with …

Water mist fire suppression systems

JR Mawhinney, GG Back - SFPE Handbook of fire protection engineering, 2016 - Springer
… Water mist nozzles produce sprays that have a higher fraction of very fine … agreement with
the conditions measured during the tests. The level of agreement between the fire suppression

Water mist fire suppression systems for building and industrial applications: Issues and challenges

K Farrell, MK Hassan, MD Hossain, B Ahmed… - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
… Figure 1 shows the typical fire water mist suppression system arrangements. … nozzle K-factor,
spray momentum, and spray angle on the effectiveness of water mist as a fire extinguishing

[图书][B] A computational and experimental study of the sprays produced by fire suppression sprinkler systems

SJ Walmsley - 2000 - search.proquest.com
… direct use to the current study due to the types of sprinkler head and nozzles used. Prahl and
… When designing a fire protection system estimates, based on the arrangement of fuel load …

[PDF][PDF] Numerical simulations on the performance of water-based fire suppression systems

J Vaari, S Hostikka, T Sikanen, A Paajanen - VTT Technol, 2012 - publications.vtt.fi
… was added in the centre of the spray, since the measured fire suppression nozzles (A, B and
C… For the multi-orifice spray-heads, the agreement with experiment is good on the centreline …

Full-scale experiments of fire suppression in high-hazard storages: A temperature-based analysis of water-mist systems

PE Santangelo, P Tartarini - Applied thermal engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
… , the fire evolution has been visualized through a post-fire … materials, water mist is shown
to be efficient in fire control, if … nozzle arrangement was designed as inspired by sprinkler-…

Characterization of a simplex water mist nozzle and its performance in extinguishing liquid pool fire

H Shrigondekar, A Chowdhury, SV Prabhu - Experimental Thermal and …, 2018 - Elsevier
nozzles are often employed in water mist fire suppression systems. In the present work, a
single head full cone simplex nozzle … mm is used to produce water mist. The objectives are to …

[图书][B] Fire Protection: Detection, Notification, and Suppression

RC Till, JW Coon - 2018 - books.google.com
… in a sprinkler head is a function of the growth rate of the fire (Table … The recognition that open
arrangements in office settings … fire potential associated with open office arrangements that …

[PDF][PDF] New technologies for fire suppression on board naval craft (FIST)

T Hertzberg, SP Boras, SJA Hiltz - 2015 - researchgate.net
… results of a Project Arrangement entitled “New Fire Suppression … scale fire suppression testing
of a dual agent (water mist / … the nozzles mounted on them can provide fire protection even …

Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Efficacy of Water Mist to Suppress Hydrocarbon Fires in Enclosures

K Moinuddin, HMI Mahmud, P Joseph, G Gamble… - Fire, 2024 - mdpi.com
… They carried out a numerical study on the effect of horizontal distance between a water-spray
nozzle and a fire on fire suppression using FDS version 6.5.2. In other studies by Lee and …