HotFoam Inside Air systems

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HotFoam Inside Air systems
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Svenska Skum Inside Air HotFoam system

• Development of HotFoam
• What is HotFoam?
• Why use a HotFoam system?
• For which products can the system be used?
• What are the advantages of HotFoam?
• Major references for HotFoam systems

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High Expansion Foam Systems

• NFPA 116.3 Hazards Protected.
• Hazards that medium- and high-expansion foam
  systems shall be permitted to protect include the
  following
• Ordinary combustibles
• Flammable and combustible liquids
• Combinations of (1) and (2)
• Liquefied natural gas (high-expansion foam only)

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High Expansion Foam Systems

• What is the working principle of High Epxansion
  Foam Systems?
• Mass effect
• isolation of the fire area
• Steam effect
• heat (energy) absorption
• reduction of the oxygen percentage
• Cooling effect
• bursted foam buble returns to water
• penetration due to reduction of surface tension
• Insulating effect
• Limit the expansion of heat through the area

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High Expansion Foam Systems

• Examples
• Aircraft Hangars
• Hazardous waste Storage
• Flamable liquid Storage
• Cable Tunnels
• LNG Ammonia Spills
• Turbine Generators
• Solvent Rooms

• Paper product warehouses
• Mines
• Tire warehouses
• Engine rooms
• Transformer rooms
• Basements, cellars
• ..and many more

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Svenska Skum Inside Air HotFoam system

• What is HotFoam?
• HotFoam was developed by SKUM in order to
  present to the market an innovation more
  effective, yet less costly both in terms of
  hardware and installation. Two factors greatly
  contributed to this new development 
• A unique new foam concentrate
• A new foam generator
• This system is designed to operate on different
  principles than the conventional Hi-Ex systems
  available up to now. The foam generators are
  located inside the protected space, using the air
  and smoke from the fire itself to generate foam
  bubbles. The principle of this new system using
  the inside air for foam generation offers a
  flexibility and effectivness often required in
  warehouse protection.
• The principal of using the inside air for foam
  generation has also made the HotFoam system
  successful in applications as e.g. marine machine
  room protection and cable tunnels. In fact the
  HotFoam system holds type approvals from all
  major marine classification bodies.

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Total Flooding High-Expansion Foam System
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Svenska Skum Inside Air HotFoam system
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Svenska Skum Inside Air HotFoam system

• Why use a HotFoam system?
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• Rapid flame and heat knock-down
• Quick and effective extinguishment
• Cost effectiveness and expedient installation
• Low water consumption
• Minimal maintenance
• Neither air ducts, wall openings nor additional
  smoke ventilation are required.
• Simplified pipe positioning, small pump capacity.
• Flexible positioning of foam generators.
• Reduced containment of polluted water and minimal
  secondary damage
• No moving parts in generator

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Svenska Skum Inside Air HotFoam system

• For which products can the system be used?
• With its range of advantages and great
  versatility, HotFoam can be effectively used on
• Hydrocarbon liquids,
• Polar solvent liquids,
• Rubber,
• Plastic,
• Wood,
• Paper,
• Chemicals.
• The unique and revolutionary SKUM HotFoam
• system can be seen as a further enhancement to
• high expansion foam technology and as a realistic
• and effective alternative to systems based on
• water sprinklers, CO2 systems and
• the now banned Halon 1301 systems.

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Svenska Skum Inside Air HotFoam system

• What are the advantages of HotFoam?
• Low environmental impact
• Minimal water usage
• Minimal secondary damage to goods
• Reliable system
• Relative small installation
• Easy pipe erection and mounting
• Extinguishment!

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Svenska Skum Inside Air HotFoam system
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Conclusion

• Unique product
• Various possibilities of application
• Relatively low costs
• Environmental friendly