Pre-fire warning system and method using a perfluorocarbon tracer
Abstract
A composition and method for detecting thermal overheating of an apparatus or system and for quickly and accurately locating the portions of the apparatus or system that experience a predetermined degree of such overheating. A composition made according to the invention includes perfluorocarbon tracers (PFTs) mixed with certain non-reactive carrier compounds that are effective to trap or block the PFTs within the composition at normal room temperature or at normal operating temperature of the coated apparatus or system. When a predetermined degree of overheating occurs in any of the coated components of the apparatus or system, PFTs are emitted from the compositions at a rate corresponding to the degree of overheating of the component. An associated PFT detector (or detectors) is provided and monitored to quickly identify the type of PFTs emitted so that the PFTs can be correlated with the respective PFT in the coating compositions applied on respective components in the system, thereby to quickly and accurately localize the source of the overheating of such components.
- Inventors:
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- Patchogue, NY
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 869598
- Patent Number(s):
- 5362568
- Assignee:
- Associated Universities, Inc. (Washington, DC)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G08 - SIGNALLING G08B - SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS
H - ELECTRICITY H05 - ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- pre-fire; warning; method; perfluorocarbon; tracer; composition; detecting; thermal; overheating; apparatus; quickly; accurately; locating; portions; experience; predetermined; degree; according; tracers; pfts; mixed; non-reactive; carrier; compounds; effective; trap; block; normal; temperature; operating; coated; occurs; components; emitted; compositions; rate; corresponding; component; associated; pft; detector; detectors; provided; monitored; identify; type; correlated; respective; coating; applied; localize; source; operating temperature; normal operating; coating compositions; rate corresponding; reactive carrier; detecting thermal; /428/73/252/374/524/
Citation Formats
Dietz, Russell N, and Senum, Gunnar I. Pre-fire warning system and method using a perfluorocarbon tracer. United States: N. p., 1994.
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abstractNote = {A composition and method for detecting thermal overheating of an apparatus or system and for quickly and accurately locating the portions of the apparatus or system that experience a predetermined degree of such overheating. A composition made according to the invention includes perfluorocarbon tracers (PFTs) mixed with certain non-reactive carrier compounds that are effective to trap or block the PFTs within the composition at normal room temperature or at normal operating temperature of the coated apparatus or system. When a predetermined degree of overheating occurs in any of the coated components of the apparatus or system, PFTs are emitted from the compositions at a rate corresponding to the degree of overheating of the component. An associated PFT detector (or detectors) is provided and monitored to quickly identify the type of PFTs emitted so that the PFTs can be correlated with the respective PFT in the coating compositions applied on respective components in the system, thereby to quickly and accurately localize the source of the overheating of such components.},
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