Some Problems on the Fire Research and Fire-fighting Technique

Some attractive topics in the field of fire research and fire fighting technique were reviewed by two authors respectively.First part written by one of the authors (K. A.) contains fundamental problems such as combustion of cellulosic materials and liquid fuels, fire plume, smoke formation. and flame inhibition of additives, and second part written by another one of authors (A. N.) contains technical problems on the development of inert gas generator and prolongation of range of discharging water.As a whole, the studies on fire and fire fighting were made rapid strides in recent year, but are not quite satisfactory. In this review, authors made clear the present state of these studies under the light of new literatures and picked out the point of question.