Limitations of Water Mist as a Total Flooding Agent
(1998) In Journal of Fire Protection Engineering 9(4). p.31-50- Abstract
- The limitations of water mist in acting as a total flooding agent are discussed in this paper. The paper focuses on water mist consisting of droplets 1-100 µm in diameter. Water mists are very efficient as an extinguishing media if they are present in the flame. There are, however, several problems associated with introducing the water mist into the flame: the spray reaches only a short distance; small water droplets have a very short lifetime; droplets coagulate into larger droplets; large droplets hit obstacles such as walls and therefore have difficulties in being dispersed throughout the protected volume.
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- author
- Andersson, Petra and Holmstedt, Göran LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 1998
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Journal of Fire Protection Engineering
- volume
- 9
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 31 - 50
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
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- scopus:0032687417
- ISSN
- 1042-3915
- DOI
- 10.1177/104239159800900404
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 60e08333-6848-40ad-abd2-92511120cdd9 (old id 34739)
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