Accession Number:

ADA230619

Title:

Next-Generation Fire Extinguishing Agent. Phase 3

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Dec 1987-Aug 1988

Corporate Author:

NEW MEXICO ENGINEERING RESEARCH INST ALBUQUERQUE

Personal Author(s):

• Tapscott, Robert E.
• Moore, Joanne P.
• Lee, Michael E.
• Watson, Jimmy D.
• Morehouse, E. T.

Report Date:

1990-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

46.0

Abstract:

This project was established to originate concepts for next- generation fire extinguishing agents. In Phase III, an effort to develop a substitute agent to replace Halon 1211 in Air Force firefighter training was initiated. Laboratory-scale investigations of flame extinguishment by chlorofluorcarbons CFCs and hydrochlorofluorocarbons HCSCs were performed. Laboratory studies of physical properties of CFC blends were also carried out.

Descriptors:

• *AIR FORCE TRAINING
• PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
• SUBSTITUTES
• EXTINGUISHING
• FIRES
• FLAMES
• FIRE EXTINGUISHING AGENTS
• LABORATORY TESTS
• FIRE FIGHTING

Subject Categories:

• Safety Engineering

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE