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Working on some DIY fire safety solutions. I'm planning to use wooden boxes (1 for each of the 7 parallelpacks) lined with gypsum. This gypsum will be coated in the "starlite".
All of these boxes will be put in a metal box with a plastic water line running through it. A drain is installed near the top, so that if the line melts, water will fill the container and drain away safely, no water damage.
 
Starlite won't last long. It's a non-stable organic material. It's food. It will break down, ferment, decompose over time. I'd be surprised if it lasts 2 weeks without smelling.

The two main things to really use would be sand (sugar sand would probably be best or a mixture with pool filter sand) and probably a flow of water to help keep containment cool.

A wooden box would actually be remarkably resilient. Once the wood gets charred by rapid heat increase, then the charred side will actually become an insulator. This is evident in the carriage box fire that was contained inside the wooden crate in the back and the main part of the carriage was still in somewhat in tact.
 
Korishan said:
Starlite won't last long. It's a non-stable organic material. It's food. It will break down, ferment, decompose over time. I'd be surprised if it lasts 2 weeks without smelling.

The two main things to really use would be sand (sugar sand would probably be best or a mixture with pool filter sand) and probably a flow of water to help keep containment cool.

A wooden box would actually be remarkably resilient. Once the wood gets charred by rapid heat increase, then the charred side will actually become an insulator. This is evident in the carriage box fire that was contained inside the wooden crate in the back and the main part of the carriage was still in somewhat in tact.
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I've used some antimicrobial agents to stabilize it over time. Also salt. Watered everything down and evaporated well to mix. End result is very hard. If no water gets onto it it should hold.That is unless the plastic water hose melts, but then some wet starlite is the least of your worries.
Wood was chosen exactly because of this resilience to burning, to buy as much time as possible for the fire dept. to get here or let the plastic hose melt before all packs are in thermal runaway.
 
Is having salt related products near the cells a good idea, eg corrosion problems?
Gypsum dry wall board sounds like a good idea.
Do you also have cement based boards (ie modern, no asbestos version of fibro)?
 
Salt should be sealed in by the glue, also no direct contact with the cells. I live near the sea anyways. Gypsum could be caustic as well! Instead of the starlite I was also thinking about glass fibre fabric covered in concrete, might be worth a shot.
 
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