Our I4F system is more effective than traditional water or foam methods also a lot cheaper than the state of the art solutions such as the use of retardants. Furthermore, the long lasting foam structure ensures a completely new type of firefighting methodology that allows fires to be extinguished without going near the dangerous fire front. We want to save not just the forest from fires but the pilots and planes from risky direct firefighting attack.
Our foam technology ensures that larger volumes can be carried in smaller space and when deposited it stays on the branches and the trees and hence stopping the fire from spreading. As a result, using I4F will have tremendous social impact in saving human lives and nature, moreover it will:
• Increase the security feeling of the target sectors and society globally
• The eco-friendly new foam used will ensure additional environmental impact
The reduction of the cost of forest firefighting and the reduction of losses due to fires will have an additional impact on the society
Technological factors
• The maximum amount of water that can be applied for 1 square metre of area is 5kg, while using our foam technology the value is up to 15 kg, which is 3 times more than the amount of pure water.
• I4F technology able to supply foam structure with up to 60 minutes water draining half-time.
• I4F technology supplies homogenous foam structure that has an extra cooling effect with 1.7 – 2.3 times more in water equivalence; on average 2.0.
• 5kg water over 1 square metre can extinguish a fire intensity of 3,400 kw/m. Using our foam therefore has an extinguishing capacity 6 times of that, hence a fire intensity of 20,4000 kw/m can be safely put out using the foam.
• The most effective forest fire-fighting technology at present is through using retardants in a ratio of 20-25% of water. With the I4F technology, this ratio is 3%.
• The maximum structural duration of existing foams is 25 minutes, while our tests have proved that with the I4F technology we can ensure the duration of over 45 minutes.