A campaign of experiments was conducted in a previously designed bench-scale wind tunnel to determine the effectiveness of suppression of lithium ion battery fires with a clean agent, Novec 1230 (CF₃CF₂C(O)CF(CF₃)₂). The experiments were performed on twelve 18650 form factor, fully charged, lithium cobalt oxide cells arranged in a rectangular array without intercell spacing. A set of baseline experiments performed at 640 l min⁻¹ of air flow, 320 l min⁻¹ of air flow, and 186 l min⁻¹ of nitrogen flow indicated that, while flaming combustion had a significant impact on the speed of thermal runaway propagation through the array, fully preventing combustion did not prevent propagation. Addition of gaseous Novec 1230 to 640 l min⁻¹ air flow immediately after the thermal runaway of the first cell produced 8.5 vol% concentration of the agent. At this concentration, which is above that recommended for suppression of traditional fires, the agent failed to suppress flaming combustion and did not prevent propagation of thermal runaway through the array. Increasing the concentration of Novec 1230 to 15.2 vol% by reducing the air flow rate to 320 l min⁻¹ reduced the flaming combustion efficiency below 18% and prevented complete thermal runaway propagation in 67% of tests.

在先前设计的台式风洞中进行了一系列实验，以确定使用清洁剂Novec 1230（CF ₃ CF ₂ C（O）CF（CF ₃）₂）抑制锂离子电池着火的有效性。实验是对十二个18650形状因子，充满电的锂钴氧化物电池进行的，这些电池以矩形阵列排列，没有电池间距。在640 l min ^-1的空气流量，320 l min ^-1的空气流量和186 l min ^-1的空气中执行一组基准实验氮气流量表明，虽然燃烧燃烧对热失控通过阵列的传播速度有显着影响，但完全阻止燃烧并不能阻止传播。在第一个电解槽的热失控产生后，立即向640 l min ^-1气流中添加气态Novec 1230，产生8.5 vol％的试剂浓度。在此浓度（高于抑制传统火灾的建议浓度）下，灭火剂无法抑制火焰燃烧，也无法防止热失控扩散通过整个阵列。通过将空气流速降低至320 l min ^-1将Novec 1230的浓度提高至15.2 vol％，可将火焰燃烧效率降低至18％以下，并在67％的测试中阻止了完全的热失控扩散。