Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) Systems on Surface Ships by Maritime DC & PPE Information Center www.dcfpnavymil.org Low-capacity and high-capacity AFFF systems are installed on surface ships to protect machinery spaces, fueled vehicle stowage spaces, helicopter hangars, landing platforms, refueling stations, flight decks, hangar

Aqueous Film Forming Foam, also known as AFFF, is a highly effective firefighting foam that has been used to extinguish flammable liquid fires, particularly those...

2024年12月3日 · The United States Navy started using AFFF around the 1960s, after highly flammable jet fuels caused extensive loss of lives and resources. Its powerful fire suppression capabilities lie in its ability to rapidly spread across the burning surface, creating a protective blanket that starves the fire of oxygen.

2025年3月1日 · For decades, U.S. Navy firefighters have used aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) to control high-intensity fuel fires, like those involving jet fuel or other flammable liquids. PFAS help the foam spread out and smother fires more effectively.

2022年4月5日 · • Existing AFFF sprinkler systems can be converted to water-only by turning off the foam delivery parts of the system. • Optical flame detectors are faster at detecting fire than smoke or heat...

AFFF, short for Aqueous Film-Forming Foam, has been crucial to the U.S. Navy for decades, mainly to tackle fires on ships and bases. Looking at where AFFF came from helps us understand why it was used, what it did, and how things have changed over time.

2023年6月15日 · The US Government (USG) has completed the replacement and disposal of all legacy AFFF at US Navy and US Marine Corps installations in Japan, US Army installations in Honshu Mainland Japan, and Misawa Air Base. The USG replaced legacy AFFF with the new modern formulation AFFF, which does not contain PFOS and PFOA as a raw material.

Learning Objectives: Recall the location, design, and operation of shipboard fire-fighting systems to include firemain, aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), magazine sprinkler, installed carbon...

There is a very serious problem aboard U.S. Navy ships from generation of toxic hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) solutions used for shipboard fire protection. This is the result of the action of sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) in mixtures of seawater and AFFF, which remain stagnant for

HONOLULU, Hawaii - As of April 15, Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill (NCTF-RH) safely removed 1,012 gallons, roughly 99 percent, of Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) concentrate from the AFFF system ...