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Title	WATER SPRAY AS A FIRE SUPPRESSION AGENT FOR AIRCRAFT CARGO COMPARTMENT FIRES
Accession No	00824304
Authors	Marker, T R; Reinhardt, J W
Corp. Authors / Publisher	Federal Aviation Administration
Publication Date	20010600
Description	v.p.
Languages	English
Abstract	This report describes full scale fire tests conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to investigate the effectiveness of several types of water spray systems against inflight cargo compartment fires. Currently, commercial transport cargo compartments are protected with Halon 1301 first suppression systems. Water spray is being considered as an alternative for Halon 1301 which is no longer being produced because of its depletion potential. An air/water dual fluid nozzle system, two types of high pressure, single fluid design systems, and a second dual fluid (water/nitrogen) nozzle system were evaluated. The inflight fire scenarios included simulated but loaded fires, containerized fires, flammable liquid fires, and aerosol can explosions. Several tests utilizing one of the high pressure, single fluid design systems were conducted according to the Minimum Performance Standard (MPS) for aircraft cargo compartments which standardizes and specifies the fire test performance for Halon replacement agents.
TRT Terms	Aircraft ; Cargo compartments ; Fire extinguishing agents ; Suppressors ; Water
Subject Areas	A19 Safety
Report Number	DOT/FAA/AR-tn01/1
Availability	National Technical Information Service Order Number: PB2002-100879
TRIS Files	ATRIS
Database	TRIS Online

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