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Artificial tornado
The Mercedes-Benz Museum are not only cars. In 2007, Guinness World Records has recognized that the museum is "the most powerful man-made tornado in the world." However, this whirlwind of 34, 4 meters high was created not for beauty or attraction turistov.
1. The purpose of this artificial tornado - withdraw the smoke out of the building in the event of pozhara.
2. In the case of fire, the air of the courtyard of the museum is blown out of holes 144 along the main sten.
3. 30-foot tornado takes about 7 minutes to "materialize" and pull the smoke out of the building through the corridors kryshu.
4. Because of the open design of the museum different exhibition halls are connected with each other without any fire zones across the courtyard and inclined ploschadki.
5. In terms of removing the smoke it was a daunting task that can not be achieved through a standard system gidravliki.
6. It is necessary to come up with a new approach, so especially for the museum Mercedes-Benz has developed a unique system for removing smoke.
Source: bigpicture.ru/?p=352639
