US3656553A - Flame-extinguishing substance comprising 1,2-dibromohexafluropropane - Google Patents

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US3656553A
US3656553A US36937A US3656553DA US3656553A US 3656553 A US3656553 A US 3656553A US 36937 A US36937 A US 36937A US 3656553D A US3656553D A US 3656553DA US 3656553 A US3656553 A US 3656553A
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  • Pre-eminent among these other properties is the toxicity of the fire-extinguishing agent and/or its thermal decomposition products while another factor may be the ability of the product to prevent flashback, i.e. the tendency to reignition of an extinguished zone upon the formation of an opening in the blanket of fire-extinguishing material.
  • Considerations of economic character are also relevant, these including the quantity of the fire-extinguishing agent consumed per unit time, per unit area or under the particular fire conditions, the nature, cost and stability of the product and the container in which it may be stored, and the nature of the discharge or distribution of the product.
  • CF BrCFBr-CF 1,2-dibromohexafluoropropane
  • the l,2-dibromohexafluoropropane may be used directly as the sole flame-extinguishing agent but also can be incorporated in an amount ranging from 5 to 25 percent by weight in fire-extinguishing compositions: preferably, 7 to 15 parts by weight of the bromofluoropropane is employed per 100 parts by weight of the composition.
  • the composition may also include a surface-active agent, of which the most suitable are the organic sulfonates and sulfates, alkylarylpolyethylene glycol ethers, esters of alcohols such as sorbitol with higher fatty acids such as lauric, stearic and palmitic acids, and sodium or ammonium salts of sulfocarboxylic acids such as dialkyl sulfosuccinic acid having up to eight carbon atoms in the alkyl group.
  • the composition should also include at least one, and possibly a plurality of propellants, capable of dispersing the fire-extinguishing agent over long distances, preferably an inert gas (i.e.
  • Inert propellant gases suitable for the purpose of the present invention include nitrogen, carbon dioxide and sulfohexafluoride while the preferred chlorofluoroalkanes are those containing up to six halogen atoms and one or two carbon atoms, the halogens being exclusively chlorine and fluorine. Of greatest desirability are difluoromonochloromethane, difluorodichloromethane, trifluoromonochloromethane, i.e. chlorofluoromethane. It has been found to be suitable to use compressed or liquid nitrogen, compressed air or the like for relatively long spray jets, the propellant here acting as foaming agents as well. The composition may be displaced through the nozzle by pumps or compressors.
  • the composition can also contain one or more antifreezing agents, corrosion inhibitors, buffering agents, thickening and carrying agents and like components.
  • polyalcohol antifreezing agents such as ethyleneglycol and propyleneglycol
  • corrosion inhibitors such as sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, sodium phosphate, potassium phosphate, the corresponding polyphosphates and amino acids, such as triethanolamine.
  • the corrosion inhibitors act as bases which react with any acid which may be present and also serve as buffering agents.
  • Thickening agents such as alkali (sodium or potassium) silicate may be used as the thixotropic or thickening agent.
  • the pool had an area of 0.4 m"; the fuel mixture was gasoline/gas oil in 2:1 proportion: the extinguishing cylinder was charged with 216 B2, pressurized with nitrogen at 14 atmospheres gauge.
  • a flame extinguishing composition was prepared by intimately mixing 100 parts by weight of 1,2-dibromohexafluoropropane with 140 parts by weight of a surface-active agent in the form of a 30 percent aqueous solution of the sodium salt of lauritic-ether-sulfate, 120 parts by weight of ethyleneglycol antifreeze agent, 1.5 parts by weight of sodium nitrate corrosion inhibitor, 6.5 parts by weight of NAI-I PQ, buffering agent, 65 parts by weight of difluorodichloromethane and 55 parts by weight of difluoromonochloromethane propellants, 70 parts by weight of a 30 percent aqueous solution of potassium silicate and 442 parts by weight of water.
  • the extinguishing time on a test area of 1.5 m in which the flames were produced by igniting a 1:1 gasoline/diesel-oil fuel was less than seconds
  • the quantity of extinguishing composition employed was less than 2.6 kg
  • FIG. 1 we have diagrammed the relative extinguishing powers of l,2-dibromohexafluoropropane and various conventional or prior-art flame-extinguishing substances.
  • the peak values corresponding to the curves are given.
  • FIG. 1 represents, along the abscissa, the concentration of n-heptane in a fuel/air mixture while the ordinate portrays the minimum concentration of the flameextinguishing agent necessary to render the mixture nonflammable.
  • the tests were carried out at ambient temperature in a conventional 3-liter explosimetric glass burette equipped with an ignition device in the form of a 6-ohm nickel-chromium wire energized at 80 volts a-c.
  • the level at which the extinguishing agent was introduced was kept constant and the general approach followed was that described by 1.1-1.
  • the curves represent the boundary between the explosion zone within the curve and the nonexplosion zone externally of the curve, i.e. the explosive limit. As the peak of the curve is reduced, the quantity of inhibitor required to prevent explosion is correspondingly reduced and the more efficient is the fire-extinguishing agent.
  • Table 1 also demonstrates the surprising superiority of asymmetric l,2-dibromohexafluoropropane by comparison with symmetrical l,3-dibromohexafluoropropane.
  • a method of extinguishing a fire comprising dispensing thereon a flame-extinguishing agent consisting at least in part of 1,2-dibromohexafluoropropane.

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