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What Is Firefighting Foam?

Fire Fighting Foam liquids are the ideal choice for extinguishing hydrocarbon fires. Fire Fighting Foam Concentrates, when diluted with water and mixed with air, produce stable foam bubbles. These bubbles have a density lower than most burning liquids and therefore float on the surface of most hydrocarbon liquids. Foam bubbles cool and cover the burning liquids and hence extinguish the fire.

In general, we have two main groups of fire fighting foams:

Protein based

Synthetic based

Protein based foaming agents are produced from hydrolyzing protein raw materials including plant and animal sources and make very stable foam bubbles, much more stable than most synthetic (detergent-based) foams. This effective parameter makes protein foams an efficient product in extinguishing large scale hydrocarbon fires.