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Development of a turbine, with a new hydraulic technology to triple the speed of portable fire equipments

Objective



We propose to realise a new Range of Hydraulic Motors Turbines utilising Pressurized Water power and working with High Rotation Speeds. The new technology of high rotation speeds allow to produce smaller and lighter motors which are convenient for portable systems used by the firemen in our industry. The development project concerns the conception of new techniques to be demonstrated in Hydraulic Turbines in order to produce a very significant increase in the Rotation Speed of the Turbine to generate a three times more powerful water jet stream . This range of products concerns directly the Fire Protection industry and essentially the population of the firemen and security agents who need to carry portable fire hoses, light, manageable, and allowing the best water power to extinguish as quickly as possible different kind of fires. Firemen and security teams generally have at their disposal large quantity of available energy pressurized water to fight the fire. Usually in order to assume individual, material and environmental protection, firemen teams use equipments with electric power supply or equipped with gas power supply, which may cause damages in terms of possible deflagration. In the opposite way the usage of turbines offers a secure intervention method with no deflagration risks in the environmental situation in which the presence of inflammable vapours may exist. Moreover hydraulic turbines present the best interesting ratios power/weight and power/volume, as we know. The Turbines also permit to action ventilators which can evacuate the toxic fumes of a building burning, avoiding to asphyxiate people and giving to the firemen a better visibility to work safely. The Hydraulic Turbines allow to action turbo pumps which are coupled with the engine fire vehicle and this assumes to fulfil the water tank of the vehicle, then in a second operation to pump dangerous liquids accidentally spread on the floors. Water engines pull through injection pumps dosing the mixing of quantities of water and emulsifiers to produce foam to extinguish the fire.

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Zone Industrielle les Guignons
10400 Nogent sur Seine
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