Selcuk UniversityServing as the principal of Doğanhisar Vocational School Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yavuz Selim Taşpınar,with the project he worked on and developed oil-related firesdeveloped a system that uses sound waves to extinguish fires.
In fires caused by gasoline, kerosene, thinner and liquid petroleum gas (LPG)It has been reported that the vibrational sound frequencies that can be used have a great effect in extinguishing the fire by separating the flames one by one.
Regardless of open or closed areas airplanes, space shuttles and bullet trainsThe project, which helps to quickly intervene and extinguish fires in areas such as these, is known as the first project carried out in Turkey on fire intervention with sound waves.
Taşpınar, thanks to the 3-stage software it developed, detected the fire by using different sound frequencies, ranges, fuels and flame sizes in the sound wave fire extinguishing system. 17 thousand 442 experimentsannounced that it was developed with.
Taşpınar explained that in the study, effective flame extinguishing ranges were determined by conducting experiments with 4 different fuels and 5 different flame sizes in the 2-70 Hz sound frequency and 10-190 centimeter range. ‘After a fire, cooling is twice as fast as normal’reported that it was observed.
In 2015, two engineering students in Virginia, USA, created a fire extinguisher using sound waves
Seth Robertson and Viet TranCreated by two university students to extinguish small kitchen fires quickly and effectively ‘acoustic fire extinguisher’The project they designed has attracted the attention of many people.
The duo mentioned that sound waves are also pressure waves, ‘With the device, they displace some of the oxygen and use sound waves at the right frequency to remove the oxygen from the flames inside the fire’They explained. Thanks to these pressure waves, the fire is extinguished from flaring up again.
Nearly 10 years later, two students are providing consultancy to a company that licenses their inventions to combat large forest fires.
