Engineering Process For The Selection Of Clean Agent Fire Extinguishants

Posted on Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

By: Jeff L. Harrington, P.E. Introduction Numerous new clean agents have replaced halon 1301, the original clean agent, during the last decade and a half. Currently, NFPA 2001 lists 13 separate clean agents that are suitable for use in spaces that are either normally occupied, or normally unoccupied.1 During the 1970s and 1980s, halon 1301...read the full article