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Development and Performance Evaluation of Environmentally Safe Foam Agents for Wildfire

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2016, 12(11), pp.19-26
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general

Kim Sung Yong 1,  Heeyoung Ahn 1,  Won Ho Cho 2,  Jae Seong Lee 2,  Chun Geun Kwon 1,  Byung Doo Lee 1

1국립산림과학원
2Sooa R&D Center

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ABSTRACT

This study aims at developing environmentally friendly foaming agents with high fire-fighting performance by using natural surfactant compositions, and evaluating its basic property, environmental friendliness and extinguishing performance. The basic property test was carried out on the newly-developed agent in accordance with standards outlined by the Ministry of Public Safety and Security in Korea. As for environmental friendliness, the toxicity tests were conducted with water fleas and earthworms. An independently developed device testing wildfire suppression performance was used to assess extinguishing capability. The results showed the foaming agent met all required properties in both experiments before and after the property change. In the toxicity test on water fleas, immobilization occurred with 48.854mg/l foaming agent, but in the test on earthworms, even the 1,000mg/kg foaming agent did not cause any fatal effect. Its extinguishing performance was found to be 1.6 times greater than water.

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