Ofb Foam – OFB Fire

FEATURES & BENEFITS

LASTFIRE
CERTIFIED

OFB Foam has been demonstrated to meet or exceed the standards for the extinguishment of Class A, Class B and Class C fires set by LASTFIRE (Large Atmospheric Storage Tank Fires). These standards define best practice for a fire-fighting foam in the petro-chemical industry. The LASTFIRE tests were conducted at the Fiskville Country Fire Authority in Victoria in the presence of fire experts from the Melbourne University of Technology. In these tests fires in a UL certified prop, fuelled by 300 litres of heptane and reaching 800 degrees centigrade were extinguished in 13 seconds. This was an outstanding result considering that the LASTFIRE standard specifies a maximum time of 30 minutes for such a fire to be extinguished without re-ignition, and the highest marks are scored if the fire is extinguished in under 6 minutes. Consequently OFB Fire received the highest pass mark of any fire system tested.

OFB FOAMS

OFB FOAMS - HIGH AND LOW EXPANSION PRODUCTS

OFB Fire has developed both a high expansion foam (OFB Foam 1) and a low expansion foam (OFB Foam 3) to effectively handle all fire fighting requirements.
With the recent trouble in the industry concerning the PFAS and PFOS chemicals, OFB foams 1 and 3 have been suggested as the replacements.

OFB r and d departments are always working to develop more environmentally friendly and revolutionary products for the fire fighting industry.

Minimum to no clean up required after using OFB foams 1 and 3. They are the only foams that we know of that can safely enter the storm water system without any damage to the environment. All other foams have to be contained in a sump and be disposed of – a very costly method .

Both OFB foam 1 and foam 3 are highly effective on wild-land fires and can be used out of an aircraft to extinguish these fires.

They have also been trialed through MINDEF programs and have successfully extinguished exotic fuels, ie. Lithium, white phospherous, and the other exotic components used in weaponry.

OFB FOAM 3 - LOW EXPANSION

OFB foam 1 is a low expansion foam which expands 30-40 to 1, specificially designed to run through CAFS (compressed air foam) systems, and inductor systems. The foam bubble structure is medium density.

Wide range of uses

Mining industry – in Australia it is used as a training foam through their inductor systems. They fill the training rooms with foam and the trainees navigate through the foam wearing their BA gear.

The foam is also highly effective on coal fires – as deep seated penetration is needed. It can also be used as a general purpose foam for structural fires , car fires, petrochemical fires, wild-land fires.

This foam attacks the radiant heat.

This foam is also effective on aluminium and magnesium fires, car fires, and is very effective on a, b, c and d class fires.

Certification

LASTFIRE certification was obtained at the melbourne university of technology, victoria. Tests were called by the petrochemical industry to find a replacement foam for the afff foams. There were 27 different companies testing their foams at the ballarat fiscal fire training college, for last fire certification. Out of 27 companies, OFB foam 1 gained the highest pass rating.

The foam has been used extensively in the mining industry, petro-chemical industry and the military in Australia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Israel, the USA and Malaysia.

Ofb foam 1 is totally biodegradable, non-toxic and has no pfas or pfos present. This foam has been supplied to the hunter valley mining industry for 23 years. It has recently passed epa requirements for use in NSW.

Minimum to no clean-up and is safe for storm water systems.

OFB FOAM 3 - HIGH EXPANSION

Our high expansion foam was developed in october 2018 at the request of mines rescue hunter valley nsw, who asked us to develop a thick shaving type foam that could be utilized to fill the drill holes to alleviate the risk of fires that start when they are drilling core holes through the coal seams.

With it ’ s deep seated penetration, it attacks the radiant heat. It is proven highly effective at leaving the membrane intact over petrochemical pool fires.

On petrochemical fires, the foam immediately attacks the hydrocarbons and dissipates them. In recent tests on heptane fires burning at 800 degrees celsius, this foam brought down the temperature to ambient on extinguishment.

This foam is highly effective on all fires except electrical (a,b,c,d class fires)

On structural fires, the foam will cling on a vertical surface and hangs there. It immediately starves the fire of oxygen resulting in rapid extinguishment.

OFB foam 3 is bio-degradable, has a 10 year shelf life, environmentally friendly and has no PFAS or PFOS. The feed-back from the industry is that OFB foams 1 and 3 are revolutionary products.