TY  - JOUR
T1  - Review of the Environmental Characteristics of Fire Extinguishing Substances of
Different Composition used for Fires Extinguishing of Various Classes
AU - Loboichenko, Valentyna AU - Morozov, Andriy AU - Gurbanova, Maya AU - Strelets, Victor AU - Kovalov, Pavlo AU - Shevchenko, Roman AU - Kovalova, Tetiana AU - Ponomarenko, Roman 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 14
IS  - 16
SP  - 5925
EP  - 5941
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2019.5925.5941
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2019.5925.5941
KW  - Fire extinguishing agent
KW  -fire
KW  -fire fighting foam
KW  -fire extinguishing powder
KW  -halon
KW  -environmental
characteristic
KW  -environment
AB  - The study shows the environmental characteristics of various substances used for the fires
extinguishing. It is specified there is a negative impact on the environment of synthetic foam agents containing
the fluorine, the absence of environmentally non-hazardous foam agents. The presence in the environment of
a significant amount of decomposition products of fluorine-containing film-forming foams is marked. Some of
them belong to persistent organic pollutants and the properties of the most compounds have not been
investigated yet. There is a departure from the use of gaseous fire extinguishing agents with ozone-depleting
properties-chladones and the ambiguity of the environmental characteristics of the compounds replacing them.
For a number of fire-extinguishing compounds informative environmental data are presented a little. And there
is search in progress for more environmentally non-hazardous fire-extinguishing compounds. Analysis of the
environmental requirements for fire extinguishing substances in a number of countries has shown that for most
developed countries there is a trend away from the use of environmentally hazardous fire extinguishing agents
which are used for the fires extinguishing of various classes. There is no one universal approach to determining
the environmental parameters of fire extinguishing compounds.
ER  -