Advanced Fire Control Technologies, Inc.   

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 Pulse Delivery^® Technology

                            Current State of the Art Commercial Technology

Phoenix® Patented Pulse Delivery® Technology    

What is Pulse Delivery^®?

After the introduction of the twin agent (dry chemical and water) systems over 40 years ago it was found that even though dry chemical is a superior fire suppression agent when compared to water, the powder could not effectively be deployed into the heart of the fire without putting the firefighters at extreme risk.  The reason that “cold” fires are easily extinguished with a hand held fire extinguisher using dry powder is because the firefighter can get close enough (safely) to deploy the agent inside the fire envelope.  However in large fires (i.e. high heat), unless the powder was drawn into the fire by associated convective wind currents it is difficult to get enough agent into the fire to effect fire suppression.  In the 90’s the entrainment nozzle was introduced.  With this technology the dry chemical powder was entrained within a water envelope in an attempt to solve two problems associated with twin agent technology.  First was to get the powder through the fire column and into the fire envelope (using the water stream as the carrier) and secondly, to allow this to be done safely (throws agents 80-90 feet).  This nozzle entrainment technology accomplished both objectives and does deploy the powder into the fire; however, the dry chemical powder is carried into the fire inside a water stream or WET.  Therefore, the water has to be vaporized before the powder can do its work.  For the vast majority of the powder carried into the fire, the water stream takes it to ground before it can do its work.  This entrainment technology was a major leap forward in improving the delivery of the dry chemical powder (estimated to be as much as 10% more effective) for all twin agent delivery systems.  The Pulse Delivery^® technology represents the next major evolution for EFFECTIVE DELIVERY of dry chemical powder into the fire envelope and/or heart of the fire.  This Pulse Delivery^® technology creates quasi-discrete slugs of the 14 micron dry chemical powder and propels them through its nozzle at speeds near Mach 1 to over 90 feet.  This action gives the 14 micron dust both mass and velocity allowing it to penetrate the fire wall from a safe distance.  The act of penetrating the fire wall disperses the quasi-discrete slugs and the powder blooms within the fire envelope and/or heart of the fire, exposing the maximum amount of surface area causing immediate fire suppression -- PROVING THAT AGENT PRESENTATION DOES MATTER!  In relative terms the Pulse Delivery^® technology deploys dry chemical powder as much as 10 times more effectively than the entrainment nozzle technology.  In fire suppression terms this means fire suppression times being reduced by as much as 50% or more!

See Why it Works! for more detailed understanding of why this technological breakthrough represents the next generation fire suppression technology.

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