Applied water mist fire suppression system in historic buildings

The historic buildings in Taiwan have a wide variety of exterior appearance such as Taiwanese, Japanese, and Western styles, and display the various multi-cultural characteristic of the constructions. Due to the irreplaceable feature of historic buildings, fire management and prevention technologies for historic buildings must be addressed for avoiding fire hazards. Applying the water mist fire suppression technology to control the fire spread in a wooden historic building in Taiwan is investigated numerically. Many water mist fire suppression system design parameters are examined to predict the temperature distributions in the historic building including the grid configuration, the nozzle installed height, water droplet size, and the water supply pressure. Before the full simulation processing, a grid analysis was undertaken and compared with the experimental data for better simulation results. © 2011, Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.