Extinguishment and Burnback Testing of Fire Fighting Agents

Abstract

The Air Force, in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration, is screening new fire fighting foam concentrates to determine their effectiveness at extinguishing and resisting burnback for hydrocarbon fuel fires. This report documents the evaluation performed on the fire extinguishing agents FLAMEOUT, FlameOut Foam and Hawk SUPER B in accordance with the parameters set forth in Military Specification (MIL SPEC) MIL-F-0024385F, Section 4.7.13 for the twenty eight square foot fire test using three percent of Type 3 foam (normal concentration). Under the MIL SPEC test protocol, agents were required to meet a maximum extinguishment time of 30 seconds and a minimum burnback time of 360 seconds for normal concentrations. None of the three agents tested at the normal concentration met these minimum requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 26, 2005
Accession Number
ADB312927

Entities

People

  • Jennifer Kalberer
  • Kimberly Barrett

Organizations

  • Applied Research Associates (United States)

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Extinguishing
  • Fire Extinguishing Agents
  • Fire Fighting
  • Fires
  • Flameout
  • Fuels
  • Governments
  • Hydrocarbon Fuels
  • Hydrocarbons
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

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