Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
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I'm developing an application that requires a finely atomized oil mist in a hot environment. Any ideas on a simple way to reduce the flammability other than flooding the chamber with CO2 or Nitrogen? Any clever ways to get O2 out of fire triangle in an oil mist?
thanks.
thanks.





RE: Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
RE: Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
These kinds of oil are also very easily washed off for easy cleaning
A.R. "Andy" Nelson
Engineering Consultant
anelson@arnengineering.com
RE: Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
what do you need the oil for? can it not be substituted by another - inflammable - fluid e.g a phosphateester?
RE: Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
I realize I'm not making this easy, but I appreciate your inputs.
Greg
RE: Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
The PAO I spoke of in the initial answer are a large class of these types of chemical called poly alpha oliphines,
these kinds of synthetic oils can be used to make high end semi synthetic, soluble, micro emulsion and straight cutting oils.
As with synthetic oils in the automotive industry coolants or metal working fluids (MWFs) made with synthetic oil tend to be more expensive than those using conventional petroleum oils.
A.R. "Andy" Nelson
Engineering Consultant
anelson@arnengineering.com
RE: Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
RE: Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
A.R. "Andy" Nelson
Engineering Consultant
anelson@arnengineering.com
RE: Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
Mark Hutton
RE: Any ideas for reducing flammability of an oil spray?
What I'm trying is adding an O2 pre-burner flame upstream of the spray process. I can burn off the O2 level in air before it reached the spray enclosure. O2 levels would then be below flammability levels for this oil. As Saberblue pointed out, though, gotta watch out for conditions after the application.
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