Composite Fire Suppressants

Dear Colleagues,

Fire suppressants are usually divided into gasses, liquids, and solids according to their physical state. Each type of fire suppressant has its own strengths and weakness, making it only applicable for specific fire types and fire areas. There is an urgent need for highly efficient fire suppressants to extinguish the increasingly challenging fires in modern society. The joint application of several agents is proposed as an effective method to promote the overall extinguishing performance by overcoming their respective drawbacks. Many composite fire suppressants have been developed, such as halocarbon gelled dry chemicals (gas–solid), a “Victaulic vortex” consisting of nitrogen and water mist (gas–liquid), and dry water with silica particles surrounding water droplets (liquid–solid). Three-phase foam is a mixture of three substances of solid, liquid, and gas. Real fire tests have revealed that these composites showed superiority with respect to fire-extinguishing time, the mass of agents consumed, toxicity, corrosivity, etc.

This Special Issue focuses on research concerning the combined utilization of different fire suppressants. It will provide a forum where scientists can share their ideas and findings concerning the design, preparation, property characterization, fire extinguishing mechanism, and typical applications of composite fire suppressants. We invite submissions of articles on any topic related to the use of composite agents for fire suppression. Full-length and short papers on experimentation, theory, modelling, and simulation are all welcome.

Dr. Xiaomin Ni
Dr. Shaogang Zhang
Guest Editors

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• composites
• fire suppression
• design and preparation
• characterization
• mechanism