Wireless Fire Break System Using Anti-Fire Slurry
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for wild fire suppression, such as aerial water dropping, chemical fire retardant dropping, and physical fire breaks, have proven inadequate in effectively protecting neighborhoods, homes, and human life from raging wild fires, especially under strong winds, leading to significant property damage and loss of life.
Innovation Solution
A wireless system network utilizing GPS-tracked anti-fire liquid spray vehicles, aircraft, and mobile applications for centrally managing the supply, delivery, and spray-application of environmentally-clean anti-fire liquid on private and public properties, creating strategic fire breaks and providing real-time notifications to homeowners for proactive defense against wild fires.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional fire suppression methods (aerial water dropping, chemical fire retardant dropping, physical fire breaks) are used, then fire suppression efforts are made, but they prove inadequate in effectively protecting neighborhoods, homes, and human life from raging wild fires, especially under strong winds
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-spraying anti-fire chemical compositions on ground surfaces and building surfaces before wild fires occur. This creates a protective barrier in advance that prevents fire ignition and spread, thereby improving protection reliability without waiting for the fire to arrive.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses an intermediary substance (aqueous-based fire and smoke inhibiting composition) that mediates between the fire threat and protected objects. This chemical composition acts as a barrier that interferes with fire combustion processes, providing effective protection under various conditions including strong winds.
2Quantity of substance
If more money is spent and more people are deployed for fire suppression, then resources are increased, but the benefits are not being realized as conventional methods continue to fail
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of fire protection from physical/chemical barriers (conventional methods) to a chemical composition that actively inhibits fire combustion. This parameter change enables effective protection with fewer resources by using the chemical properties of the composition rather than relying on large-scale physical suppression efforts.
3Reliability
If anti-fire chemical liquid is sprayed on ground cover and building surfaces prior to wild fires, then proactive defense is achieved, but the system complexity increases with GPS tracking, wireless communication, and centralized management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing a multi-functional system where a single aqueous-based composition serves multiple purposes: fire inhibition, smoke reduction, and post-fire smoke suppression. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate systems and simplifies overall management despite the advanced technology integration.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system effectively reduces the risk of damage and destruction from wild fires by forming multi-stage anti-fire chemical fire-breaks that stall the advancement of fires, even in dry conditions, and provides a proactive defense mechanism for homes and properties, reducing the destructive energy of wild fires and preventing re-ignition.
Implementation Method 1
applying by an aqueous-based fire and smoke inhibiting slurry formulation that can hydraulically sprayed around whole neighborhoods to create strategic chemical-type fire breaks
Implementation Method 2
applying fire and smoke inhibiting compositions on ground surfaces before the incidence of wild-fires, and also thereafter, upon smoldering ambers and ashes to reduce smoke and suppress fire re-ignition
Data Source
AI summary
A method of and apparatus for making and applying a clean fire and smoke inhibiting slurry composition containing clean fire inhibiting chemicals, and cellulose or wood fiber, mixed with water and other additives, on surfaces including ground surfaces in advance of wild fire, to blanket grounds from wildfire ignition, and also application over smoldering ambers and ashes to prevent re-ignition while reducing (i) the use of significant amounts of water, (ii) the production of toxic run off water, and (iii) toxic smoke.