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US 7,726,409 B2Granted
Fire suppression systems
AssigneeEclipse Aerospace, Inc.
InventorsPeter D. Haaland, Ken Harness
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Abstract
Non-reactive test agents may be used to test fire suppression systems in which reactive fire suppression agents may be used to release catalytic fire suppression agents for transport by naturally occurring flows paths downstream to the vicinity of flame holding regions for fire suppression for example, in aircraft.
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A method for testing a fire suppression system, comprising:
- selecting a test agent, having similar transport characteristics to a catalytic species to be released from a reactive fire suppression agent used for fire suppression;
- injecting the selected test agent at about the same point in the fire suppression system that the reactive fire suppression agent would be injected for releasing the catalytic species to be transported to flame holding regions for fire suppression;
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- determining the concentration of the injected test agent in the vicinity of the one or more regions that would be flame holding regions during a fire.
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A system for testing a fire suppression system, comprising:
- a tank containing a non-reactive test agent;
- an injector for injecting a pulse of the non-reactive test agent for transport to one or more regions that would be flame holding regions during a fire;
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- a detector for determining a concentration of the injected test agent in the vicinity of each flame holding region.
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A method for developing a fire suppression system, comprising:
- selecting a reactive fire suppression agent for releasing a catalytic species which suppresses fires;
- selecting a non-reactive test agent having transport characteristics related to the catalytic species;
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- injecting the non-reactive test agent into a volume representing a structure that could be subject to a fire to determine natural flow paths for transporting the catalytic species to regions that would be flame holding regions during a fire.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.