DEVELOPMENT OF A TEST SAMPLE OF A SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND SUPPLYING COMPRESSED AIR FOAM
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https://doi.org/10.33042/2522-1809-2024-4-185-172-177Keywords:
compressed air foam, class A fires, compressed air foam systems, modified additivesAbstract
An effective fire extinguishing agent for class A fires is the compressed air foam formed in Compressed Air Foam Systems (СAFS). Such systems have become widespread in leading countries such as the USA, Germany, China, and others. It is worth noting that the technical parameters of CAFS (intensity and consumption of an aqueous solution of foaming agent/air), implemented in the practice of fire extinguishing in the form of industrial samples, are designed and manufactured in such a way as to ensure effective extinguishing of developed fires of a significant area. When using existing samples for obtaining compression foam, a problem arises, which lies in the limited possibilities of regulating the supply of compression foam (intensity and consumption of the aqueous solution of the foaming agent/air), under which it is possible to use it with modified additives when extinguishing laboratory fires of solid combustible materials, and the lack of a smooth regulation of its supply. As a result of the research, the authors proposed a compressed air foam system to study its properties with the content of modified additives when changing the composition of the liquid and air that make it up. The manufactured system has the following parameters: multiplicity of 4–20, working pressure of systems of 4–8 bar, smooth adjustment of the consumption of aqueous solution/foaming agent of 2–20 l/min, and smooth adjustment of gas fraction consumption of 8–450 l/min. In particular, it is possible to adjust the consumption of the aqueous solution of the foaming agent and air, to work in dependant and autonomous mode, to regulate the intensity of the foam supply using nozzles of different diameters, and to change the porosity of the porous body in the foam generator. Further, we developed a system for measuring the flow of aqueous solution and air, which is a hardware and software complex. The system allows saving the measurement results to a PC in the form of an Excel spreadsheet for further development of dependencies and simultaneously displaying the flow rate of the aqueous foaming agent solution and air on the display screen and PC in real-time.
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