Fire protection for power plant turbine rooms has typically been a game of tradeoffs. Enclosure integrity issues in older facilities can render CO2 and halon systems ineffective. In new and old ...

Pacific Scientific Aerospace is to provide the engine and auxiliary power unit (APU) fire-suppression systems on the Airbus A350 XWB and for the first time will not use halon as the firefighting agent ...

Current halon-based fire suppression systems only are designed for use in cargo compartments because the chemical is harmful to humans. To increase passenger safety, Life Mist Technologies and Pacific ...

One such fire suppression system, launched in 2003 by a 3M partnership with Tyco Fire & Security, uses a fire protection fluid that looks similar to water but in fact dries 50 times faster than water.

”This is the disaster that all of us fear,” said the president of an independent telephone company, referring to last Sunday`s fire at an Illinois Bell Telephone Co. switching station in Hinsdale.

The government should require fire suppression systems in all cargo containers or compartments of planes to prevent the kind of ferocious in-flight blazes that have killed four cargo pilots over the ...

Seventy-two feet of oceangoing beauty almost went up in flames and down to the bottom Friday afternoon. Luckily, the 72-foot yacht had an onboard Halon fire suppression system when a blaze started.

Diehl Aerosystems' division AOA is demonstrating its FIREX water-mist fire-suppression system for aircraft cargo compartments, which it says is the only halon replacement system to have passed all US ...

Choosing a fire protection system should not be considered something of an insurance box-ticking exercise, since the consequences of making the wrong decision can be devastating and costly Fire ...

ECLIPSE SAYS ITS FIRE SUPPRESSION AGENT WILL SUPPLANT HALON - Eclipse Aviation has four patents and has won FAA and Environmental Protection Agency approval for a new aircraft fire suppression system ...