Evaluation of the use of ultrasound for pressure measurement in fire suppression cylinders

使用超声波测量灭火筒压力的评估

• 批准号: 710649
• 金额: $ 12.74万
• 依托单位: COLTRACO LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Proof of Concept
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=710649
• 关键词: Evaluation; use; ultrasound; pressure; measurement

Fire safety technology and processes continue to advance. Many modern fire suppressionsystems make use of “clean agents” delivered in gaseous form, however the effectiveness ofthese systems is dependent on there being adequate pressure within a fire cylinder to deliverthe clean agent. Traditional methods of checking these systems are costly and timeconsuming, especially for large scale operations such as high rise buildings, oil rigs or datacentres which may have potentially hundreds of cylinders in a single system. Coltraco, anestablished UK manufacturer drawing on research with the University of Durham (DU) andWarwick (Centre for Industrial Ultrasonics – CIU), will pioneer the concept of a constant, noninvasivecylinder Ultrasonic Pressure Monitoring (UPM) system to give on site and remotemonitoring of fire suppression installations 24 hours per day 7 days a week on the basis of asuccessful 18 month project to investigate the relationship between ultrasonic pulse return andgas contained within a cylinder. Such a system will be the first in the world and wouldprovide a significant advance in fire safety with particular importance in high value buildingsand environmentally sensitive and hazardous industrial processes.

消防安全技术和流程不断进步。许多现代灭火系统使用以气态形式输送的“清洁剂”，但是这些系统的有效性取决于消防筒内是否有足够的压力来输送清洁剂。检查这些系统的传统方法既昂贵又耗时，特别是对于高层建筑、石油钻井平台或数据中心等大规模操作来说，这些操作可能在单个系统中拥有数百个气缸。 Coltraco 是一家英国知名制造商，利用与杜伦大学 (DU) 和华威大学（工业超声波中心 - CIU）的研究成果，将率先提出恒定、非侵入式气缸超声波压力监测 (UPM) 系统的概念，该系统以每周 7 天、每天 24 小时对灭火装置进行现场和远程监测，其基础是一个为期 18 个月的成功项目，旨在研究超声波与压力之间的关系。 脉冲返回和气缸内含有的气体。这样的系统将是世界上第一个，并将在消防安全方面取得重大进步，特别是在高价值建筑以及环境敏感和危险的工业过程中。