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An Innovative Fireball Fire Extinguishing System to Enhance Industrial Safety
Authors: M. Rahman, A. Elahi, and A. Rashid
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Many fire-based accidents are occurring in Industries now. Consequently, massive losses of lives, as well as money, are suffered by the owners. The conventional fire extinguishing systems are found to be not enough to reduce losses, including eliminating them. Most are conversant in the fact that the large fires originate from very small sparks or pretty little fires which are very easy to manage. So, in this research, the main objective was to easily control these small fires at the initial phase. By using the traditional fire extinguisher, it's not always possible to extinguish a small fire. One of the main reasons for this inability is that the manual handling nature. So, the authors worked with the automated extinguishing equipment and tried to enhance them to extinguish the small fire at a very initial stage and prevent huge fire which will cause massive losses. In this research, a sustainable fireball was designed and manufactured using locally available raw materials. In the ball, dry powder is used as an extinguisher referred to as ABC dry chemical powder. A stands for ash, B stands for barrel while C stands for current. The powder is typically a mixture of mono ammonium phosphate and ammonium sulfate, the previous being the active one. The combination between the two agents is typically 40–60%, 60-40%, or 90-10% counting on local standards worldwide. An innovative fireball extinguisher system has been developed using this powder to extinguish the fire quickly and conveniently. In this paper, the design and fabrication procedures of an innovative fireball extinguisher system are described along with the test result