Fire Protection System for Hardened Aircraft Shelters. Volume 3. Appendix H
Abstract
To keep personnel, aircraft, and munitions safe and ready, a fire protection system for hardened aircraft shelter (HAS) is needed. This report describes the effort to design, integrate, and test a fire protection system to combat fires in HAS, aircraft and associated equipment during hot fueling, defueling and other operations in semihardened aircraft shelters. The smart and fast detection/suppression system used was required to possess the capability to distinguish between normal operations/events, false stimuli and an actual fire. Halon agents were used for partial flooding tests. Agent toxicity and cleanliness were evaluated and considered in the selection of agents and systems. This report describes the five-part approach used to develop a fire detection system for HAS: 1. Define the HAS environment, 2. Analyze the HAS environment to determine the most likely fire scenarios, 3. Conduct thorough tests and evaluations of commercially available fire detectors, 4. Design, implement and evaluate HAS fire protection system tests, and 5. From the system analyses and tests, develop a purchase description. Keywords: Fire extinguishing agents, Fire detection, Fire suppression, JP-4 fuel, Halon.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA197602
Entities
People
- Billy R. Dees
- Dennis M. Zallen
- Edward T. Morehouse
- Joseph L. Walker
- Phyllis Campbell