Disclosed is a fire suppressant material for controlling or extinguishing a combustion process, the fire suppressant material comprising zeolite particles with an internal porous structure, wherein molecules of a fire extinguishing substance are contained within the internal porous structure of the zeolite material.

A heat-activated fire-suppression system is provided. The system can include one or modules installed in an exterior panel of a building. The one or more modules can include a shape memory alloy wire that deforms upon heating to cause the module to release a pressurized substance. The system can include an alarm module that emits an auditory alarm. The system can include a fire-suppression module that releases a fire-suppressing substance upon the shape memory wire deforming in response to heating.

A battery pack includes a fire extinguishing system. The battery pack includes: a housing; a battery module in the housing and including a plurality of spaced apart battery cells; an agent storage unit storing a fire extinguishing agent and injecting the fire extinguishing agent into the housing when an abnormal temperature is detected; a first perforated plate at a side of an inflow passage of the housing where the fire extinguishing agent flows from the agent storage unit to the housing, including a plurality of first opening holes for passing the fire extinguishing agent and guiding the fire extinguishing agent to a connection passage between the respective battery cells, and uniformly distributing the fire extinguishing agent injected into the connection passage from the inflow passage through the plurality of first opening holes; and a fan discharging the fire extinguishing agent injected into the housing to the outside thereof.

A firefighting apparatus includes a reaction chamber, a CO.sub.2 tank fluidly connected to the reaction chamber, acid and carbonate tanks, acid and carbonate pumps, and a controller. The acid and carbonate pumps act to correspondingly regulate flow of acid from the acid tank and carbonate from the carbonate tank to the reaction chamber. Acid and carbonate react within the reaction chamber to produce CO.sub.2 gas which flows into the CO.sub.2 tank and liquid byproduct which is releasable through a reaction chamber outlet. A CO.sub.2 gas delivery valve is fluidly connected to a delivery outlet of the CO.sub.2 tank to regulate release of CO.sub.2 therefrom. The CO.sub.2 tank includes a pressure sensor for measuring a CO.sub.2 tank pressure. The controller is configured to control operation of the acid and carbonate pumps, and the CO.sub.2 gas delivery valve according to a user command signal, the CO.sub.2 tank pressure, or both.

An apparatus for applying carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) in solid form to a target comprises an aggregated body production chamber for producing individual solid bodies of CO.sub.2 with defined shape using an endless type conveying member which carries a plurality of receptacles for receiving CO.sub.2 snow and allowing the same to harden therein to form the individual bodies during movement of the receptacles along the upper run before being discharged upon transition to the lower run. The apparatus includes a snow production chamber for producing CO.sub.2 snow, which is in communication with a discharge of the aggregated body production chamber and which comprises its own downstream outlet such that the CO.sub.2 snow acts to convey the individual bodies released from the discharge of the aggregated body production chamber and towards the target.

A battery module and a battery pack including the same are provided. The battery module includes a battery cell stack comprising a plurality of battery cells, a module frame accommodating the battery cell stack, and a venting part formed on one side plate of the module frame, the venting part including an inflow port and a discharge port for discharging gas introduced through the inflow port, and the inflow port and the discharge port of the venting part being spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the one side plate.

The invention comprises a fire extinguisher and method, wherein the fire extinguisher has a sealable high-pressure container that forms a hollow interior connected by a valve to an environment external to the said container. The said container holds at a high pressure at room temperature a composition of liquid carbon dioxide and a non-hydrate, hydrophobic, cyclic organo-siloxane compound, the said compound further having a freezing point of at least −20° C. at one atmosphere. Upon release of the combination to the environment external to the container, the compound further produces a clathrate. In at least one embodiment of the invention, both the clathrate and the non-hydrate, hydrophobic, cyclic organo-siloxane compound have firefighting conductive properties.

A firefighting apparatus includes a reaction chamber, a CO.sub.2 tank fluidly connected to the reaction chamber, acid and carbonate tanks, acid and carbonate pumps, and a controller. The acid and carbonate pumps act to correspondingly regulate flow of acid from the acid tank and carbonate from the carbonate tank to the reaction chamber. Acid and carbonate react within the reaction chamber to produce CO.sub.2 gas which flows into the CO.sub.2 tank and liquid byproduct which is releasable through a reaction chamber outlet. A CO.sub.2 gas delivery valve is fluidly connected to a delivery outlet of the CO.sub.2 tank to regulate release of CO.sub.2 therefrom. The CO.sub.2 tank includes a pressure sensor for measuring a CO.sub.2 tank pressure. The controller is configured to control operation of the acid and carbonate pumps, and the CO.sub.2 gas delivery valve according to a user command signal, the CO.sub.2 tank pressure, or both.

An electronic detection extinguisher system detects and extinguishes a fire which starts at the interaction of a fuel nozzle and the fuel inlet. The electronic detection extinguisher system is comprised of at least one controller which detects and sends signals, at least one sensor which sends signals to the encoder, at least one encoder which extends the signals provided by the controller or the sensor, at least one valve which is electronically controlled that releases the extinguisher solution or gas, at least one relay which provides direct current from the power supply to the electronically controlled valve, at least one relay which cuts the direct current of the fuel pump which stops the fuel from pumping, at least one extinguisher line which provides the gas or extinguisher solution to the tip of the extinguisher, at least one data cable which connects the encoder to the sensor, at least one source of extinguishing solution or gas, at least one regulator to regulate the pressure of the gas or extinguisher solution.

A composite power generating device of the present invention includes an engine (110), a first flow line (121), a turbocharger (130), a second flow line (122), a third flow line (123), a compressor (211), a first medium line (221), a medium turbine (212), a second medium line (222), a working medium cooler (213), a recuperator (215), a power generating unit (214), a cross-line (233), a first heat exchanger (251), a second heat exchanger (252), and a third heat exchanger (253).