Performance Evaluation of Nitrogen for Fire Safety Application in Aircraft

Fire suppression is an important safety certification requirement for aircraft as it is for all safety critical systems. Risk analyses are required at the design and certification stages to determine the probabilities and means of mitigating such risks. [18] shows an approach for spacecraft,[19] for passenger ships and [30] for reactors. An important analysis tool for aircraft is the Zonal Analysis process [31]. Such analyses include investigation of means of fire suppression for which the use of Halon 1301 was a popular choice.