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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Fire Shield or Heat Sheild [FlyRotary] Re: P MAlternator Project
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 11:52:08 -0500
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Ask Bill Schertz.

Barry Gardner
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Ward" <gregw@onestopdesign.biz>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 11:49 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Fire Shield or Heat Sheild [FlyRotary] Re: P 
MAlternator Project


> Is Anti-Freeze flammable????
> Greg Ward
> Lancair 20B in progress
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ernest Christley" <echristley@nc.rr.com>
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 9:32 AM
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Fire Shield or Heat Sheild [FlyRotary] Re: P 
> MAlternator Project
>
>
>> Bob Perkinson wrote:
>>> The best fire suppression system is just plane water.  Before I
>>> retired we replaced all of our CO2 fire suppression systems with high
>>> press. water mist.  30 gal of water replaced 6 150# CO2 bottles.  The
>>> idea is the water will spray out in a fine mist and instantly turn to
>>> steam, this removes the heat from the combustion and also displaces
>>> the air.  I know that displacing the air would be hard to do in a
>>> moving aircraft but removing the heat would definitely put out the
>>> fire if the mist were spraying on and in the area of the exhaust this
>>> may prevent what ever fluid is leaking from re-combustion.  A high
>>> press. water system big enough to be able to do this would be weighty
>>> and take up a considerable amount of room (Water container + high
>>> press. gas cylinder plus high press piping and spray nozzles.)  I am
>>> not sure how to figure the  btu's stored in the exhaust system, but
>>> fairly sure that it would be a function of the mass of the eshaust
>>> system and the temp. of the metal, this would dictate how much water
>>> would be neede to remove this heat.  Water would have to be kept above
>>> freezing, this throws another kink in the logestics of this type of
>>> system.
>>> Somone out there may have an idea on this and how to make this a
>>> practical system.
>>>
>>> Bob P.
>>
>> Most of us rotary guys already carry a water reservoir that is protected
>> from freezing.  If your engine compartment is on fire, you probably
>> won't be overly concerned with the internals of your engine getting to 
>> hot.
>>
>> You just need a way to mist the water.  I suggest an unregulated fuel
>> pump into some metal tubing and out through three or four strategically
>> placed agricultural misting nozzles.
>>
>> The cooling system only uses a few quarts, but how many do you need once
>> you cut the fuel supply?
>>
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