近十多年来，国际安全领域对细水雾灭火技术的研究方兴未艾，以美英等国海军为代表的西方各国海军对细水雾在舰船尤其是舰船动力机舱的应用进行了大量研究，结果令人振奋。对该领域的研究作了简单的回顾，旨在使国内安全领域的工作者对此有所了解，为我国海军在这方面的研究提供些许借鉴。

During the last decade, water mist fire protection technologies have always been the hotspot in world safty field. Being the large consumer of Halon 1301 and Halon 1211 primarily, navies of most countries in the world felt more enthusiasm about it. US Navy, Royal Navy and other navies have undertaken an extensive study of water mist for fire protection applications aboard ship, especially in machinery spaces. And the results of the testing and theoretic study conducted by them are encouraging. Their study will be summarized in this paper, the purpose of this paper is twofold： to introduce their study to the fire protection workers in China and to provide a reference to China Navy in this field.