Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference (한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집)
- 1997.11a
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- Pages.598-605
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- 1997
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EM-$200^{TM}$ GAS-FILLED AFFF FIRE EXTINGUISHER FOR AUTOMATIC FIRE SUPPRESS10N SYSTEMS IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT OF AUTOMOBILES
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Jung, Ki-Chang
(Division of Safety Engineering, Hoseo University) ;
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Kim, Hong
(Division of Safety Engineering, Hoseo University) ;
- Kang, Young-Goo (Division of Safety Engineering, Hoseo University)
- Published : 1997.11.01
Abstract
In recent years, the number of vehicle fires, as well as the number of motor vehicles, has been increasing rapidly. Therefore, several types of automatic fire suppression systems for the engine compartment of automobiles have been developed to extinguish automobile fires, and most of these systems use halon 1301 as a fire extinguishing agent. Due to environmental concerns, the phase-out of halons has been announced, so now there is a need to replace halon 1301. For this, a 1,1,1,2,3,3,3-heptaflouropropane (HFC-227ea, FM-
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