Experimental Study on Fire Extinguishing Properties of Compound Superfine Powder.

In this paper, the existing fire extinguishing powder was improved with magnesium hydroxide as additive to prepare the compound superfine powder. And the fire extinguishing performance of the compound powder was tested by the modified cup-burner, being compared with the commercial dry powder and the superfine powder. The advantages of the compound superfine powder were explained from the aspects of minimum extinguishing concentration, temperature and extinguishing time. The experimental results showed that the minimum extinguishing concentration of compound superfine powder was much lower than the other two, and the temperature drop rate was greater in the process of suppressing flame. Although the compound superfine powder was slightly lower than the superfine powder in the average extinguishing time, the standard deviation results showed that the composite powder had better stability. In addition, the experimental results showed that the fray-out of flame was very fast and the time only accounted for 17.5% in the fire extinguishing process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]