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A Review of Additives for Water Mist Fire Suppression Systems

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As the complexity and the cost of infrastructures have risen, the need for a fast, reliable, cost-effective and clean fire extinguishing system has become important. Water mist is a clean and effective technology to deal with most types of fires. Over the years, chemicals have been added to the water to improve the performance of the mist and deal with new types of fires. This review presents an exhaustive state of the art on additives for water mist technology over the last fifty years. Eleven publishers were reviewed to form the corpus of almost one hundred articles. A systematic review of the articles highlighted that alkali metal compounds have been the main focus of research. Metal-based compounds have also proved to be effective. Surfactants remain an additive of choice in the formulation of fire-fighting foams and as additives for water mist but hydrocarbon surfactants should be preferred to fluor-based ones for environmental reasons. Solvents have proved to be a new, clean and potent class of water mist additives worthy of further investigation. Overall, the toxicology and environmental impacts of most additives have not been addressed or are often overlooked as an important criterion for a water mist additive.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support and funding from the Agency for Defense Innovation (AID) and the French National Agency for Research (ANR) in the scope of the RAPID VIPERE and LabCom GreenSprink projects, respectively. The Agency for Defense Innovation and the Centre-Val de Loire Region are gratefully acknowledged for the PhD sponsorship of the first author.

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Robinet, A., Chetehouna, K. A Review of Additives for Water Mist Fire Suppression Systems. Fire Technol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-024-01570-4

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