Nanotechnology for the suppression of fires in agricultural land and forests

Abstract

The article presents the results of a systematic analysis of the causes and consequences of forest and landscape fires in the USSR and in Russia, which indicate the lack of effective fire protection methods and means from them to date. It is shown that the world community, in addition to flooding landscape and forest fires, bunding and filling of their distribution paths with earth, has no other ways and means of suppressing them. The results of research and synthesis of nanotechnologies and models of fire-fighting helicopters are presented, in which the planet’s atmosphere is used as an “endless source of fire extinguishing composition”, which allows using the developed (thermomagnetic air separators) and produced (membrane air separators and helicopters) re-equip «Avialesookhrana» and the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia in order to reverse the growth trends of fires and losses from them in the forests and steppes of Russia. It is noted that the proposed nanotechnology for suppressing fire can be effectively used not only to extinguish fires on farmland and forests, but also on trunk oil and gas pipelines, vehicles on roads (away from settlements) and facilities in the mountains where water and other extinguishing agent delivery options arelimited.

Integration of fire protection of farmland, steppe and forest tracts with agrotechnical processes of their treatment with the help of airships

“…A system analysis of the above agrotechnical problems and tasks of protecting farmland, steppe and forest areas leads to the conclusion that it is possible and necessary to integrate them with the help of airships, incl. and in unmanned modes, using nanotechnology (membrane, thermomagnetic) separation of atmospheric gases, as an "endless source of fire extinguishing composition", to suppress fires in mountainous areas, forest and landscape fires, as well as the above innovations for UAVs and agricultural technologies [14,15].…”

“…In contrast to the configuration of the airship according to the claimed method of detecting and extinguishing farmland, steppe and forest fires with atmospheric nitrogen [15], a nitrogen membrane station (NMS) container can be the "1st floor" of a rigid suspension complex, which, due to its weight and size characteristics (dimensions -6.0 × 2.5 × 3.6 m, weight -11,500 kg) may well replace the necessary "mooring devices", and on the "2nd floor" a pilot's cabin and other necessary compartments can be mounted (Fig.2), for the implementation of technological and auxiliary functions. The results of the system synthesis of models for the integration of agrotechnical and fire-fighting tasks have shown their high efficiency [4,[14][15]:…”

About Integration of Modern Scientific Agro-Fire Technologies

“…Принимая во внимание, что эксплуатационные затраты на передвижение дирижабля и его зависание над любым местом региона охраны и/или точного земледелия на несколько порядков ниже затрат других авиационных средств [13], а азотная мембранная станция является «бесконечным источником огнетушащего состава» из атмосферы [21,22], что не требует доставки к очагу пожара воды или других огнетушащих средств, реализация предлагаемого подхода создает не только научно-технологический приоритет РФ в технологии тушения ландшафтных пожаров [19,20,23], но и обладает неконкурируемым качеством, за счет предлагаемой интеграции способов.…”