Journal of Aeronautics & Aerospace Engineering
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Behbahani-pour MJ

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• Research Article
  Avionics Compartment Fire Extinguishing on the Commercial Airplanes
  Author(s): Behbahani-pour MJ and Gianmarco RBehbahani-pour MJ and Gianmarco R
  
  In all commercial and non-commercial airplanes, there is no fire detection or fire extinguishing system in the avionics bay. Racks, are cooled by ambient or conditioned air. Each rack will include several circuit boards, which in case of overheat, can burn with the risk of igniting the surrounding components and structures, thus jeopardizing flight safety. It becomes therefore important to provide fire detection and fire extinguishing capabilities in the aircraft avionics compartment. The approach proposed in this paper, extracts nitrogen from ambient air by mean of the Air Separator Module, then nitrogen is routed to the avionics compartment racks, and enters inside the component and extinguishes the fire. The temperature of the nitrogen is adjusted to be around 25°C to prevent thermal shock effects on the circuit boards before being injected in the avionics compartment. A series.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2168-9792.1000188

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