PROCESS AND INSTALLATION FOR DETECTING/NEUTRALIZING DANGEROUS GAS ACCUMULATIONS AND FIRE EXTINGUISHING IN THE LOADING COMPARTMENT OF A FREIGHT TRANSPORT VEHICLE

摘要

The invention relates to a process and an installation for detecting/neutralizing dangerous gas accumulations and for extinguishing fires which may occur in a compartment of a freight transport vehicle. According to the invention, the process consists in detecting dangereous gas accumulations and neutralizing them by automatically spraying a neutralizing substance. The claimed installation consists of two or several pipes () intended to be mounted at the top of a compartment of a freight transport vehicle, throughout its length, the pipes () being provided here and there with some nozzles for spraying some neutralizing substances and placed behind some protective metal shields (), by means of some intermediate slide bearings () and some rolling bearings (), at one end the pipes () being provided with a tilting mechanism consisting of a gear reducer () driven by a tilting electric motor (); the pipes () are connected by a flexible hose () to a fixed pipe () wherethrough a neutralizing substance is brought from a heat-insulated container (), by means of some self-priming pumps (), said pumps () being power supplied from a storage battery of the vehicle and independently wireless controlled from an automation unit of the installation consisting of a series of sensors () detecting the gas accumulations, which communicates with a central viewing and monitoring control panel and a central computing unit, some video cameras () being mounted within the compartment, for visual monitoring and control purposes.