摘要 |
Fire prevention and suppression systems and breathable fire-extinguishing compositions are provided for rooms, houses and buildings, transportation tunnels and vehicles, underground and underwater facilities, marine vessels, submarines, pas-senger and military aircraft, space stations and vehicles, military installations and vehicles, and all other human occupied objects and facilities. The system provides a breathable hypoxic fire-preventative atmosphere at standard atmospheric or local ambient pressure. The system employs an oxygen-extraction apparatus supplying oxygen-depleted air inside a human-occupied area or storing it in a high-pressure container for use in case of fire. A breathable fire- extinguishing composition is introduced for constant fire-preventive environments, being mostly a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen and having oxyge n content ranging from 12 % to 17 %. A fire-sup- pression system is provided employing a fire-extinguishing composition with oxygen concentration under 16 %, so when released it creates a breathable fire-suppressive atmosphere having oxygen concentration from 10 % to 16 % with possible addition of carbon dioxide. A technology for automatically maintaining a breathable fire- preventive composition on board a human-occupied hermetic object is provided by introducing inert ballast that automatically maintains oxygen content under the Hypoxic Threshold. An aircraft fire suppression system utilizing a hypoxic fire suppression agent is provid ed for producing breathable atmosphere onboard having fire-extinguishing properties.
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