Concept

The (vertical) impulse-launching method combined with aerial delivery (e.g. by drones or copters) is one of the most efficient fire-fighting methods, being 10…50 times more efficient (in terms of spending the extinguishing agent per m2) than the traditional pouring of water from aircrafts. By using the modern facilities of navigation and direction, the whole system is working as the integrated, pin-point accurate, very practical and powerful tool.  This system will be absolutely useful and even indespensable by fighting fires in hilly or swampy forest tracts, in dangerous industrial zones, on sea vessels etc.

 

Specification

The essential characteristics of these Systems:

  • Mobility & accessibility
  • High efficiency – if by pouring water from a plane, as average, there will be effective „work“ up to 5% of the whole amount launched (the rest will evaporate), then by a well-designed impulse-launching system this ratio will reach up to 80-85%;
  • Versatility of configuration, flexibility – dependent on the exact purpose, on the load capacity and other characteristics of the carrier etc., it is possible to design the „tailor-made“ launching containers (of one or of several sections), guaranteeing herewith the high level of efficiency and thriftiness of the configuration;
  • Suitability for building the regional integrated systems – due to its high operativeness and due to some economical reasons, it may be reasonable to build up a certain part of the regional emergency services based on this system; by the regional master plan it is possible to create a network of operative storages of pre-fabricated extinguishing containers, which are relatively cheap to produce and which have a relatively long (up to 10y) shelf life;
  • Reliability – the system is reliably working virtually in all possible conditions, incl. extreme temperatures (-50…+500C), very wet or very windy environment etc.

 

Characteristics/figures

Due to the very high flexibility of the system, the range of size and power of the particular devices can be extremely large.

  • 1-section container with 160L of water is capable to extinguish a 100…200m2 forest fire;
  • 4-section container with 200L of water is capable to extinguish a 300…500m2 forest fire;
  • 4-section container with 650L of water is capable to extinguish a 1000…2000m2 forest fire;
  • 9-section container with 200kg of powder* is capable to extinguish a 800…1500m2 forest fire;

()* – universal environment-friendly & low-cost mineral powder based on natural magnesite; especially suitable for fighting wildfires

 

How it works

In order to meet the requirements of suitability and efficiency the system has to be built up as an integrated one. According to the concrete set of the devices (the fleet of the carriers available, the set of the containers etc.) and to the character of the fire certain (standard) programs/patterns of operation (logistics & fire-fighting) will be applied.  The operating system is integrated via GPS. Using remote control it is possible to effectively apply the coordinated relocation of the carriers, to transfer (for analysing) the data from the observation drone(s),  to initiate the triggering of the containers in the determined height diapason (usually 10…20m) etc.

If applied the fleet of carriers consisting of drones only it is possible to operate effectively the whole system from the remote centre, which is potentially the most efficient way to conduct this operation. And certainly it is the safest way, because it will not put human life at risk.

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