Improving the efficiency of forest fire prevention and suppression with of forest fire machine

Abstract

One of the main difficulties in combating forest fires with conventional water-based methods is the difficult topography and the fact that there are usually no accessible roads to bring firefighting techniques closer to the fire site. Today, a large number of scientific teams are working on the topic of extinguishing the edge of a forest fire with soil. The aim of the study is to increase the efficiency of forest fire prevention and extinguishing by ground-throwing machines by removing the upper combustible layer of forest soil, the formation of a loosened soil shaft from the mineralized layers of forest soil and throwing soil into the edge of a forest ground fire. The paper briefly describes the technical means for extinguishing forest fires using soil. The analysis of the structures of soil-throwing machines has been carried out. The promising directions for improving the technology and working bodies of fire-fighting ground launchers are described, the advantages and disadvantages of its designs are revealed, and ways of further improvement are outlined. A promising design of a strip-laying soil gun with a hydraulic drive of working bodies for preventing and extinguishing forest fires is presented. A distinctive feature of the developed design of the strip-laying soil launcher is the use of an auger to remove the upper fire-hazardous cover, consisting of plant residues, and cut spherical discs to improve the quality of loosening the soil shaft. As a result of the conducted studies of the working process of the strip-laying machine, it was found that the share of the soil covers with combustible materials in the soil flow decreased from 40 to 7%, and the quality of soil shaft loosening increased by 17%, due to which the average distance of soil ejection increased from 10 to 15 m and the power consumption of the rotor-thrower is reduced from 12 to 10 kW.