Experimental Investigation on Polycarbonate Fire using various Parameters

Polymers are most commonly used in manufacturing applications and the home. Each of the electric appliances, furniture, glazed windows & pillow are comprised of polymer, that make the majority of the fire lots in the family room of a home as well as the machinery components in the working hall of the market. Polycarbonate is used as a fuel in the experiment in this paper. The polycarbonate is cut in to required shape and the polymer is burned until its degradation temperature is reached. After the degradation temperature is reached the water mist is operated to extinguish the fire. This water mist is produced by various different set of parameters. The extinguishment is recorded by a video camera and the time taken for each extinguishment is found out from the video. Thus the effect of each parameter like pressure, nozzle diameter and height between nozzles, fuel are found out. In this experimentation the effect of coverage area and flow rate is also taken in to consideration. Here the experimentation is done until the effect of pressure gets converges