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Reliability Evaluation of Fire Extinguisher –

An Innovative Safety Approach
Aditya Tiwary Rohit Patel
Associate Professor, Dept. of Fire Technology & Safety UG Final year students, Dept. of Fire Technology & Safety
Engineering, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and Engineering, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and
science, Indore (M.P), India science, Indore (M.P), India

Saiyam Jain Shreyansh Jain

UG Final year students, Dept. of Fire Technology & Safety UG Final year students, Dept. of Fire Technology & Safety
Engineering, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and Engineering, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and
science, Indore (M.P), India science, Indore (M.P), India

Shivam Rathore Sagar Soni

UG Final year students, Dept. of Fire Technology & Safety UG Final year students, Dept. of Fire Technology & Safety
Engineering, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and Engineering, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and
science, Indore (M.P), India science, Indore (M.P), India

Seejan Khan Sami Shaikh

UG Final year students, Dept. of Fire Technology & Safety UG Final year students, Dept. of Fire Technology & Safety
Engineering, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and Engineering, IPS Academy, Institute of Engineering and
science, Indore (M.P), India science, Indore (M.P), India

Abstract:- Reliability evaluation of an engineering system

or component or element is very important in order to Fire Extinguisher is very important in order to control
predict its availability or unavailability and other fire at a particular place. In order to minimize the effect of
important indices related to the component or system as a fire at any location proper utilization along with the reliability
whole. Reliability is the variable which tells about the of the equipment is very important aspect to look after.
availability or unavailability of the component under Therefore there is need for evaluation of the reliability. In this
proper working conditions for a given period of time. In paper reliability evaluation of Fire Extinguishers installed for
this paper a study based on reliability analysis of fire safety is done and different reliability parameters are
extinguishers installed for safety purpose is evaluated and obtained.
different variable are obtained. A Fire Extinguisher is
very important to control in case of fire for safety
purpose.

Keywords:- Reliability, Availability, Fire Extinguisher, Fire

Fighting, Safety.

I. INTRODUCTION

A Markov cut-set composite approach was proposed by

Singh et al. [1]. The reliability indices have been determined
at any point of composite system by conditional probability Fig. 1(i) Fire Extinguisher
approach by Billinton et al. [2]. Wojczynski et al. [3]
discussed DS simulation studies. New indices based on
probabilistic models and fuzzy concepts were presented by
Verma et al. [4]. Various reliability indices studies were
presented [5-9]. Different methods for reliability of
distribution system were discussed [10-15]. Studies based on
fault tree, safety, DS reliability are presented [16-24]. Tiwary
et al. [25] has discussed a methodology for evaluation of
customer orientated indices and reliability of a meshed power
distribution system. Reliability evaluation of engineering
system is discussed [26]. Battu et al. [27] discussed a method
using MCS. Various reliability assessment has been presented Fig. 1(ii) Fire Extinguisher
[28-31].

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II. RELIABILITY EVALUATION OF
COMPONENTS AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION

The reliability of the system having constant failure rate

is evaluated by using the following relation.

R(t)=e^(-λt) (1)
Where R(t) represents the reliability of each component.
λ represents the failure rate per year and t represents time
period which is taken as one year.

The mean time to failure (MTTF) can be obtained as

follows:

MTTF=1/λ (2)

Fig. 3 Description of different types of Fire Extinguisher

III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Table 1 shows the initial data for the fire extinguishers.

Total number of seven fire extinguishers was taken for the
study purpose. Table 2 provides the evaluated reliability for
each and every fire extinguishers. For fire extinguishers 1 to 7
evaluated reliability value are 0.991536, 0.992528, 0.992032,
0.998002, 0.996606, 0.994615 and 0.995212 respectively.
Table 3 gives up the value of MTTF of each and every fire
extinguishers taken for the study. Fig. 1 provides the
magnitude of reliability of each and every fire extinguisher
from 1 to 7. Fig. 2 gives magnitude of MTTF.
Fig. 2 Component description of Fire Extinguisher

Table 1: Initial data for different fire extinguishers.

fire extinguisher 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Failure rate(*10-4) 85 75 80 20 34 54 48

Table 2: Evaluated reliability for different fire extinguishers.

fire extinguisher 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Evaluated Reliability 0.991536 0.992528 0.992032 0.998002 0.996606 0.994615 0.995212

Table 3: Evaluated MTTF for different fire extinguishers.

fire extinguisher 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Evaluated MTTF 117.64 113.33 125.00 500.00 294.11 185.18 208.33

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