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Title of Journal: Fire Technol
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Abbravation: Fire Technology
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Authors: Stefano Chiti
Publish Date: 2014/03/09
Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 393-407
Abstract
For valuable assets and critical applications fire suppression might not be enough Damages caused by an incipient stage fire secondary damages due to the activation of the fire suppression system itself or downtime of critical assets could cause unacceptable losses In these cases fire can be prevented by using hypoxic air HA rather than suppressed HA technology for fire prevention also known as oxygen reduction system is based on a continuous reduction of the oxygen in the protected enclosure in order to limit the availability of oxygen to the combustion process typically a small fraction of the oxygen in the air is replaced with nitrogen The effect of low oxygen concentrations on the combustion process was investigated by a literature survey of existing pertinent sources However most of the tests found in the literature were not performed in a way which is adequately representative of the conditions created by HA systems Because of this lack in the state of the art it was therefore decided to develop an ad hoc ignition propensity test method able to assess different configurations The performance of HA was then explored by carrying ignition propensity test on materials which can be found commonly in applications which lend themselves for HA technology The tests were also carried out to study the performance of HA beyond the design parameters set by international standards
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