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

消防安全技术和工艺不断进步。许多现代灭火系统使用以气体形式输送的“清洗剂”，然而这些系统的有效性依赖于在消防气瓶内有足够的压力来输送清洗剂。检查这些系统的传统方法既昂贵又耗时，特别是对于大型操作，如高层建筑、石油钻井平台或数据中心，这些系统中可能有数百个气瓶。Coltraco是一家知名的英国制造商，它与杜伦大学（DU）和华威工业超声中心（CIU）合作，将率先开发一种恒定的、无创的圆柱体超声压力监测（UPM）系统，在一个为期18个月的成功项目的基础上，每周7天，每天24小时对灭火装置进行现场和远程监测。该项目旨在调查超声波脉冲返回与圆柱体内气体之间的关系。这种系统将是世界上第一个，并将在消防安全方面取得重大进展，对高价值建筑和环境敏感和危险的工业过程尤其重要。

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.