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1 Cottrell Associates, Inc. Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Cottrell Associates, Inc. Since 1988 Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Combat Support Since 1988. 3738 Rawls Church Rd. Combat Support Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. 800-393-4032 3738 Rawls Church Rd. Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. 800-393-4032 afff Fluorine Jim Cottrell Facts New England Fire Mechanics & Service Tech. Assn. Jim Cottrell Annual Luncheon Presentation 2013. Go to YouTube postings by: arafff136. 1 2. Marine foam firefighting systems consulting. Manufacturing 3 4. afff Fluorine Facts Show - December 5, 2013. Cottrell Associates, Inc. What Make afff 's Work What Make afff 's Work Cottrell Associates, Inc. Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Since 1988 Since 1988. Combat Support Combat Support 3738 Rawls Church Rd. 3738 Rawls Church Rd. Go to YouTube postings by: arafff136.

2 Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526 Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. 800-393-4032 800-393-4032 Adding a Scotch-Guard like chemical (fluorosurfactant) to water changes its surface tension to the point where water floats on oil base fuels (hydrocarbon). Hence the term aqueous film, or light water . 2007 Cottrell Associates, Inc. National Foam, Foam Tech. Up Date 2007 Cottrell Associates, Inc. National Foam, Foam Tech. Up Date 5 6. Cottrell Associates, Inc. Cottrell Associates, Inc. What Make afff 's Work What Make afff 's Work Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Since 1988 Since 1988. Combat Support Combat Support 3738 Rawls Church Rd. Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. Go to YouTube postings by: arafff136 3738 Rawls Church Rd. Go to YouTube postings by: arafff136. Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. 800-393-4032 800-393-4032 Aqueous film (light water) Foam solution drains on contact from the foam blanket spreading a vapor suppressing film across the fuel surface.

3 The microscopic thin water film is supported by the fuel's surface tension. The afff . fluorosurfactant component creates a fuel shedding solution allowing forceful, plunging fire stream application and or sub- surface injection. Adding a foaming hydrocarbon Aqueous film surfactant similar to shampoo's forms on foaming ingredient allows the contact Oil base fuel agent to foam, or froth. 2007 Cottrell Associates, Inc. National Foam, Foam Tech. Up Date 2007 Cottrell Associates, Inc. National Foam, Foam Tech. Up Date 7 8. afff Fluorine Facts Show - December 5, 2013. Cottrell Associates, Inc. Cottrell Associates, Inc. Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Since 1988. Combat Support What Make afff 's Work Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Since 1988. Combat Support What Make afff 's Work 3738 Rawls Church Rd. Go to YouTube postings by: arafff136 3738 Rawls Church Rd. Go to YouTube postings by: arafff136.

4 Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526 Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. 800-393-4032 800-393-4032 Need Apple QuickTime Player double-click in the box Fluorine Makes It Happen The 3M Company pioneered an electrochemical fluorosurfactant manufacturing process, which created Scotch Guard type products in the early 1960's. Electrochemical fluorosurfactants Navy film forming video clip. Film spread for afff were produced till 2000 mainly rate must be greater by the 3M Company. than eight feet per ! minute. Fluorosurfactants are commonly found in printer's ink, paint, food contact paper and fabric coatings. 2007 Cottrell Associates, Inc. National Foam, Foam Tech. Up Date 2007 Cottrell Associates, Inc. National Foam, Foam Tech. Up Date 9 10. Cottrell Associates, Inc. Cottrell Associates, Inc. Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Since 1988. Combat Support What Make afff 's Work Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Since 1988.

5 Combat Support What Make afff 's Work 3738 Rawls Church Rd. Go to YouTube postings by: arafff136 3738 Rawls Church Rd. Go to YouTube postings by: arafff136. Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526 Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. 800-393-4032 800-393-4032 EPA's Position In the 1990's trace byproducts of electrochemical fluorosurfactants were found on The EPA have had for several years a a world-wide scale as persistent contaminants in ban on producing substances containing electrochemically produced PFOS and PFOA. blood serum of humans, animals, soil and water. By end of 2013 most afff fire foams in the These compounds are known as perfluo-octo- containing PFOS and PFOA surfactants sulfonates (PFOS and PFOAs). should have been voluntarily removed from ! system inventories. National Foam's afff . No health hazards have been linked to normal background levels of these compounds. products have not contained PFOS or However, in the late1990 s the persistent nature PFOA fluorosurfactants for many years.

6 Of these compounds caused industry to abandon ! bio-persistent electrochemical fluorosurfactant It must be noted that the EPA have not compounds and replaced them with safer banned the use of existing afff stocks, and at this time disuse is strictly voluntary in compounds manufactured using a telomorization the - In Europe and Canada the ban is process. now mandatory, which requires disuse and 2007 Cottrell Associates, Inc. National Foam, Foam Tech. Up Date disposal of afff 's containing PFOS & PROAs'. 2007 Cottrell Associates, Inc. National Foam, Foam Tech. Up Date 11 12. afff Fluorine Facts Show - December 5, 2013. Cottrell Associates, Inc. Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Since 1988. Combat Support What Make afff 's Work Cottrell Associates, Inc. Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Since 1988. Combat Support What Make afff 's Work Go to YouTube postings by: arafff136 Go to YouTube postings by: arafff136.

7 3738 Rawls Church Rd. 3738 Rawls Church Rd. Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526 Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. The Fluoro-Fix: 800-393-4032 800-393-4032 Fluorotelomer Surfactants Fluorotelomer surfactants are not biologically Fluorine Free, Synthetic persistent, but are, to some extent, environmentally persistent. Therefore firefighting foam Firefighting Foam manufacturers are following the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2010/15 PFOA Voluntary Fluorine -free, Class A foam-type (hydrocarbon surfactant based). Stewardship Program by reducing the more firefighting foams are now available from several manufacturers and environmentally persistent eight carbon chain (C8) have in some cases achieved pass results in certain performance tests. telomorsurfactant with a less persistent, six carbon At this point I know of no synthetic, Fluorine free firefighting foams which chain (C6) telomorsurfactant, which should be have past: UL 162 type III, Navy mil F24385 or Coast Guard complete by 2015.

8 Firefighting performance tests, and I know of none that will equal the !NOTE: burn-back or fuel pick up resistance of afff and AR- afff 's using modern fluorotelomer surfactants as their backbone chemistry. There are no state or federal regulations mandating ! the elimination of telomor based surfactants regardless Note: These foams do no do well under UL 162, type III, Fire Dept. of carbon chain lengths. application techniques where foam streams are plunged into fuel spills. 2013 Cottrell Associates, Inc. National Foam, Foam Tech. Up Date 2007 Cottrell Associates, Inc. National Foam, Foam Tech. Up Date 13 14. Foam Lines - November 2013. ! 2013 - A division of Cottrell Associates, Inc. Cottrell Associates, Inc. Combat Support ! Factory Agents Since 1988 Factory Agents - Product Development Consultants Since 1988. ! Combat Support afff & AR- afff Fluorine Debates! 3738 Rawls Church Rd. ! In this piece I will address the Facts as I understand them surrounding the role Fluorine based Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526.

9 800-393-4032 afff fluorosurfactant components play in the current fire service dialogue as they relate to bio-persistent and environmental persistent issues. t Executive Summary Alcohol Resistant - Aqueous Film Forming Foam u Jim Cottrell The US EPA have initiated a voluntary program for flurosurfactant producers, not fire foam manufacturers, to move to a less persistent telomer" based chemistry. This voluntary o program has most flurosurfactant producers moving toward the preferred telomer chemistry by end of 2015. This does not mean the foam concentrate purchased in 2010 - 2014 is On simple hydrocarbons AR- afff 's release an aqueous film. d somehow going to be banned or regulated differently going forward. In the United States, what you have you can use . !The EPA have not banned and I understand they have no intent to implement future n bans on the use of modern fluorotelomer based surfactants used to formulate afff AR- afff 's contain a polymer (sugar) in their bubbles which detect solvents a firefighting foams.

10 They have, however, banned new manufacture and or importation of fluorosurfactants for use in any products, including afff using the dated, electrochemical manufacturing processes which produces bio-persistent and environmental persistent and changes to a liquid Saran Wrap-like film, which blocks water in the foam blanket from being attacked by alcohol from below. AR- afff 's tend to be compounds. This was most notable in 3M's Light Water products and the primary reason H. for their withdrawal from the firefighting foam market in 2000. !Fluorosurfactants longer lasting (slower draining) than regular afff 's !Fluorosurfactants in synthetic firefighting securing liquid fuel fires. The proportional balance between the two surfactants in a water solution is what makes afff the agent foams are the components responsible for lowering water's surface tension, allowing it to form a light aqueous film that spreads of choice when it comes for high performance, flammable liquid fuel Polymeric Membrane firefighting.