Tests of Fire Suppression Effectiveness of Damaged Water Mist Systems

Abstract

The FiST-project New Technologies for Fire Suppression On Board Naval Craft, is a trilateral (Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden) research project under the CAN/NLD/SWE Cooperative Science and Technology MOU. The focus of the project is active firefighting on navy ships. One important task is the investigation and identification of methods to introduce redundancy in active firefighting on naval vessels. In this report, the results of a number of full scale fire tests run at the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, in January - February 2013, are presented. The objectives of the tests were to evaluate the residual capacity of a damaged high pressure water mist system and investigate how redundancies might be introduced or effect fire suppression systems. In addition to these tests, the effectiveness of a high pressure water mist system was also evaluated as an alternative to the deluge system requirements (NSC (24 mm/min) or Class DNV (32 mm/min)) for weapon storage fire protection.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1016987

Entities

People

  • Alexander Claesson
  • Michael Foersth
  • Michael Rahm
  • Raul Ochoterena

Organizations

  • SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Control Systems
  • Cooling
  • Critical Temperature
  • Diameters
  • Equations
  • Fire Suppression
  • High Pressure
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Regulators
  • Surface Temperature
  • Test Equipment
  • Water Flow
  • Weapons

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  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.