3% F-500 Encapsulator Agent is used with salt water to fight this oil well fire demonstration in United Arab Emirates, which was successful in less than a minute. This is a three-dimensional, flowing liquid fuel fire. NFPA 11 Annex A.1.1 states, “Foam is not suitable for three-dimensional flowing fuel fires or for gas fires.” It is difficult for foam to extinguish three-dimensional fires because it can’t form a blanket, but F-500 EA can, as it cools and encapsulates the fuel.
Fire Suppression Series
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- Faster Knockdown, Less Water: How Encapsulation Changes the Fireground
- The End of Firefighting Foam
- EV Fires in Parking Garages: A New Threat to Infrastructure
- What the Data Shows: F-500 EA Lithium-Ion Fire Testing Results
- Thermal Runaway: Understanding the Chain Reaction That Makes Li-Ion Fires So Deadly
- PFAS: The Forever Chemical Problem and Why Fluorine-Free Matters
- On-Scene Decontamination: Your First Line of Defense Against Cancer
- The Cancer Epidemic Killing Firefighters — And What We Can Do About It
- 3-Dimensional Fires: Why Foam Fails When You Need It Most
- Attacking All Four Legs of the Fire Tetrahedron at Once
- What is F-500 EA? Meet the Agent That Does It All
- Why Today’s Fires Are More Dangerous Than Ever