Water injection in turbine outlet for fire suppression by Willimczik

Cool, Great Idea hungarians.  They are also responsible for the invention of the Hungarian cannon.

Too bad that Red Adaire didnt use a liquid nitrogen jet(as in spray) instead! Couldve saved A LOT of time and money. Liquid nitrogen is the perfect tool for putting out oil fires. It sucks the heat right out of the fire which is crucial and its inertness prevents reignition and stops the combustion reaction dead in its tracks.

I would imagine it to be exactly the opposite.. Water is cheap and doesn't have to be stored in special conditions like liquid nitrogen and liquid nitrogen is expensive.. Besides water seems to do the trick very well.

When combustible hydrocarbons start burning in large quantities like this, the temperature of the flame soars into the thousands of degrees. That much heat will simply vaporize water in a flash before it can actually make contact with the flame. Liquid Nitrogen IS used as a fire suppressant at many oil refineries for the reasons that I mentioned. Most of the oil fires in Kuwait were put out using explosives.

I believe you are correct but I really don't see a reason to use expensive liquid nitrogen because it isn't particularly easy to transport around with a couple of jet engines. Anyways according to this video the water seems to work just as well.

I would imagine liquid nitrogen to be effective at non moving locations such as refineries, where I doubt they have jet engines. I think this is kinda "experimental" yet? But then again, I'm no expert.

STFU!!

reminds me of when i pee.

they need this in california

uh look again the water nozzles are next to the turbine. That's what those pipes are.

No, the nozzles next to the turbine only supply additional water. I suppose there is a limit to how much water you can feed directly into the jet stream from the engine, so by dumping additional water on top of the jet stream after it exits the engine will allow it to spray a lot more water onto it's target.