Fire extinguishing ball from Thailand: Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball

Few of us ever used a fire extinguisher. Slightly larger percentage of people are theoretically how to use it. The majority in the case of fire will read the instructions for its use, as long as the fire will flare up. A large area requires a lot of fire extinguisher, which is due to the need to keep the mixture under pressure, is usually very heavy.

Inventor Fanavatnan Kaymart [Phanawatnan Kaimart] in July 1997 experienced a terrible fire at the Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel, in which more than 100 people were killed. It located in Thailand, in the area of ​​Pattaya called Jomtien. After such a tragic experience Kaymart decided to make the device more simple and effective in extinguishing fires than ordinary fire extinguisher, whose great-grandfather appeared in the late 19th century. As the inventor and came to building their device called «Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball» (ball of fire extinguishing Elide).



When heated ball, about the size of a soccer ball, explodes and throws it inside the powder at a distance of 1, 3 meters, and the ball weighs only 1, 3 kg. The powder is harmless to people and the environment, and is suitable for extinguishing fires involving electricity. Shelf life of the ball is 5 years. Elide Ball also received the Russian certificate in 2008.
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Thai startup Elide assures that the ball is safe and does not explode on their own in the fall - to activate the high temperatures needed. In addition, it can operate as a passive fire-extinguishing system, strengthen it if on a stand in high fire risk areas - for example, in the kitchen

. If very small pockets of fire easier to extinguish improvised means or fire extinguishers, it becomes dangerous to approach at sprouting fire extinguisher to it. In such cases, Elide ball can be very useful.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/273488/