Dept of Fire Protection & Safety Technology, Oklahoma State University, 2002. pp. 14.
Starting from the flammability diagram, a thermal theory is proposed to scale various critical concentrations in combustion. By the analogy between ignition and suppression, the flammability limits are extrapolated to the Minimum Extinguishing Concentration. Thus the suppressibility of a fuel will be evaluated from its flammability, while the suppression capability of an agent will be evaluated using the CB value. By setting up the thermal balance at extinguishing, the synergistic effect can also be explained by an adjustable flame temperature factor. This thermal mechanism will guide the future work on selection new combination of binary agents.
