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SAA-IAFPA Fire-fighting Foam Seminar Fluorine-Free Fire-fighting Foam - The Path to Where We are Today Luc Jacobs, Global Product and Environmental Manager, Solberg US00002734 Company Leading manufacturer of fire fighting foams - Bergen, Norway - Greenbay, Wl, USA - Sydney, NSW, Australia Foam production: + AFFF (C6 technology only) + Fluorine Free Foams: Re-HealingTM RFTM series + Class A Fire Brake + High Expansion, Training Foam - No pr US00002735 Past the impossible wEnvironmental impact: Organofluorine foam Products, with ingredients, NOT leaving any environmental footprint in seawater -- Biodegradable in fresh water - Fire Performance: Organofluorine foam we today: Regulations PI ised-out: s Europe, USA, A u stralia ... PFOA: Phase-Out (Including PFOA precursors) Pending REACH, estimated 2020 Pending Australia, adoption of Queensland Gov. Policy You cannot release any Fluorinated O rganic com pounds direct to ENV. PFHx Unc F Mat The new FFF or better "OrganoFluorine Free" foams have to pass the same standards as the AFFF's and fluoroproteins THEY DO ! Most of them are already better in performance than Fluoroproteins FilmFormingFluoroProteins US Mil Spec F24385F Strategic Environmental Research and Development program (SERDP) (US Military, Navy) STATEMENT OF NEED to develop a fluorine free for use as an alternative to AFFF to meet requirements defined in MIL-F-24385F Recent Victorian (AUS) parliament inquiry: <  AFFF vs FFF er Solberg ARCTIC FOAM: New C6F13*- technology "US Mil SPEC" performance * ______ * EN1588 _____ * FM 5130 * ICAO * US MIL SPEC F2^ * Solberg Re-HEALING FOAM: Organofluorine Free "patented" technology a' LA o I I- 1 K t 0 L_.... i............ a U L 1oZ 0 r IVI o 1o u 0 I!.-...t... a SOLBERG AFFF is not just an AFFF ! 0 SOLBERG RFTM is not just a Fluorine Free Foam US00002739 - Solberg Fire Brake (3M OrganoFiuorineFree intellectual property) v First RF products RF3, RF6 Australian Standards RF 3X6 ATC EN 1568 & LASTFIRE Second Generation RF3 (& RF6) EN 1568-3 RF3 IA (Fresh water) ICAO LEVEL B Second Generation RF3X6 ATC EN1568-3& 4 LASTFIRE ICAO LEVEL B & LEVEL C vr RF products TODAY ... RF1-S Newtonian, Silicone Free: Passing EN 1568-3 IB (Fresh-Water) RF3X3 FP ATC: improved performance on Polar liquids US00002740 PerFluoroHexanoic Acid pfo a Octanoic ~ FTS PerFluoroHexanoic Fluorotelomer Sulphonate US00002741 j PFOS based technology: Potassium Salt, Filmer + Foamer based PFOS 1980's: 3M Light WaterTM (98% pure PFOS) 1990's: 3M Light WaterTM (65% pure PFOS) - C4 - C16 prefluoroalkyl Sulfonates * 2 0 0 0 'nd: PFOS phase out Fluorotelomer based technology ^ppsQiyi until ? 8'2FTS surfactants Polvmsric Fluorosurfact*" 15 - 25% C8:2 FTS; 55 - 65% C6:2 FTS, 5 -15% C10:2FTS *From 2004(?) C6:2FTS surfactants, Polymeric Fluorosurfactants C6:2 FTS Today available US00002742  AFFF is still AFFF er PFOS Technology 98% C8 and TECH 1 Foamer = BEST 85% C8 and TECH 3 Foamer = WORST (more needed) (TECH 3 needed pure C8) nr Fluorotelomer Technology 0 20% + C8:2 FTS based surfa a- 99,5% C6:2 FTS => Need 4X more as direct C8:2 FTS replacement => Optimised background mixture reduces C6:2FTS amount! & AFFF is not the some anymore ! o FUTURE C4 or C10 and higher technology er NO chance: WHAT's the purpose ... US00002743 MYTHS and FACTS FFF is not performing as well as AFFF? er FFF can be different technologies si NOT ALL FFF are good products: BE CAREFUL ! er Re-Healing Foam patented Technology sr 2004: AFFF beter in certain applications 21 . sr RF outperforming AFFF in specific applications * PASSING LASTFIRE ^ Passing EN 1568-3 Direct application sr AFFF outperforming RF in specific applications o 2011 RF UL 162 * RF FM 5130 a RF1, 1% Re-Healing Foam: Special designed for off-shore sprinklers systems . RF1-S, 1% Re-Healing Foam: Newtonian, passing EN 1568-3 Direct application - test results: direct extinguishing tim e < lm in30sec (spec=3m in) - test results: Burn-Back > 18 minutes (3 0 c ) * FUTURE = PROMESSING B New RF1, RF3 Newtonian, R F1X3ATC TM ... US00002744  TESTING - TEST protocols , The "Debunk" theory (negative approach?) , To Proof it works * i__ itical situations * Below stand; tices - test protocols are "difficult". * Many trials of the same product may give: Many results Extinguished in 34 second Demonstration - Our products are good, competition is bad ... US00002745 I probably can't answer anyhow .. US00002746