Explosive Tests

May 26, 2010 automatic detection and N2 Generator explosion suppression tests conducted with the US Army (TARDEC) and UL representatives in attendance at UTeC Labs in Kansas, USA .

Two x 6" long by 6" diameter N2 Generators.

We extinguish the explosive fire approximately two to three times faster than an equivalent armor vehicle halon or HFC explosion suppression system and N2 does not create toxic hydrogen fluoride decomposition gasses like our halon and HFC counterpart systems do.  

N2 fire systems create a greater margin of survivability to soldiers inside armor vehicles either during a false fire system discharge or while under actual military attack.   


May 26, 2010 -

Automatic Detection and N2 Generator Explosive Suppression Tests
at UTeC LABS in Kansas

Two x 6" long by 6" diameter N2 Generators mounted in the opposite left and right corners of the 130 cubic foot lexan test booth. The left N2 Generator was activated 40 milliseconds after the explosive fire was detected and the second N2 Generator was activated 100 milliseconds after the first N2 Generator.






A) Two x 6" long by 6" diameter N2 Generators mounted in the opposite left and right corners of the 130 cubic foot lexan test booth. The left N2 Generator was activated 40 milliseconds after the explosive fire was detected and the second N2 Generator was activated 100 milliseconds after the first N2 Generator.

B) The 130 ft3 Lexan test booth which replicates the inside of an armour vehicle.

c) To the left hand side of the booth we have 100 psi supplied air to gasoline fuel mix spray nozzle which blows across a heat ignition sparker to ignite an explosive fire ball inside the test booth with the spray nozzle supply valve being left open for 2 full seconds and the sparker igniter left on for 3 full seconds.

D) The explosive fire is detected in approximately 2 milliseconds, a delay of 40 milliseconds was programmed into the N2 release control box and we extinguish the three explosive fires in approximately 55 to 173 milliseconds after activating the first 6" long N2 Generator.

E) You will notice our N2 Generators create a 100 % clean nitrogen wind turbulence down along the inside walls of the protected space using a military N2 diffuser, thus removing the flame from the fuel and extinguishing the explosive fire.

F) Our N2 Generators also inert the protected space down to approximately 15.7 % oxygen per volume, at a 2 psi pressure increase and an ambient noise level increase to approximately 138.8 decibels for 150 milliseconds inside the test booth.