SYSTEM TO PROVIDE EXPLOSION PROTECTION IN COMPARTMENTS WITH EQUIPMENT WORKING IN EXPLOSIVE ENVIRONMENT Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: fire prevention, particularly for power engineering and transport, to design rooms, compartments and so on characterized by risk of explosive gaseous mixture (air and inflammable gas, combustible liquid vapor) accumulation, namely to protect combustible material storage facilities, power plant rooms, compartments in vehicles and so on.

SUBSTANCE: the essence in the invention is in the following. When combustible gaseous mixture even having stoichiometric fuel-oxidizer ratio ignites detonation wave appears practically immediately. For detonation wave forming some space is needed in which separate compression waves generated by flame are united in common compression shock, namely in detonation wave. The detonation wave unlike the compression wave immediately heats gaseous mixture behind wave front. Because of above heating detonation wave moves with supersonic speed, pressure in wave front is substantially higher than in the case of normal gas burning. Above pressure increase takes place practically instantly at distance equal to several free paths of gas molecules. To take into consideration above processes system has adjusting partitions arranged so that straight distance between any two points in free space does not exceed length of predetonation zone in stoichiometric mixture of above gaseous mixture including oxygen, wherein the mixture is under atmospheric pressure if the volume communicates with atmosphere and is under maximal possible pressure if the volume is closed.

EFFECT: prevention of gaseous mixture detonation.

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