Emerging Trends and Applications in Fire Extinguishing Agents 2019

Emerging rapid urbanization in India, industrial growth and failure of implementation of basic fire safety laws. The foremost menace for industries now is ignition and fire hazards. Water is incompatible with classes of fire. After the implementation residue is left by water while extinguishing fire. Water is not compatible with electric type class E fires as well as water cannot be used in environment where fragile electric appliances are involved Thus there is demand for new extinguishers and new extinguishers are developed each day .The type of fire extinguisher termed as clean agents as per the national fire protection association are proving to be more efficient and exhibit more compatibility with all the classes of fire. These new agents exhibit much more effectiveness and are capable of extinguishing fire in initial stages with very less concentration of clean agents in comparison to water. Halons showed more compatibility with the different classes of fire and were the successful fire extinguisher but as it had high Ozone Depleting Potential (ODP) and Global Warming Potential (GWP), halons were banned due to its adverse effect on environment. Research on various halon replacement is going on but ideal replacement on halon is not found yet. So there is need of comparing the various fire extinguisher available in the market on the basis of their compatibility on all classes of fire and as well as factors such as global warming potential ,ozone depletion potential and their effect on human health.