Capabilities Assessment of Commercially Available Fluorine-Free Foams

Abstract

The firefighting foams (AFFF) currently used by the Department of Defense (DoD) and civil aviation are facing increasing regulatory scrutiny throughout the world due to both environmental and human health concerns associated with fluorinated surfactants. DoD needs to develop and/or identify environmentally acceptable alternatives (fluorine-free (FF)) that can provide equivalent firefighting capabilities as the foams that are currently being used. The first step to solving this problem was to develop an understanding and database of the capabilities of the currently available alternatives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 2021
Accession Number
AD1217239

Entities

People

  • Jerry Back
  • John Farley

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Alkanes
  • Environment
  • Fire Hazards
  • Fire Protection
  • Fire Safety
  • Fire Suppression
  • Materials Testing
  • Military Research
  • Performance Tests
  • Petroleum
  • Petroleum Industry
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Test Methods
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.