Nanotechnology for the suppression of fires in agricultural land and forests

Valery Belozerov,Mihail Nikulin,Nikolay Topolsky

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202017512007

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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.

Highlights

Russia, which accounts for one fifth of all the world's forests, is considered a leading forest power, with a forest area of 8.1 million square kilometers, which occupies 49.4% of the country
The cost of extinguishing one major fire can amount to tens of millions of rubles, and socio-economic losses - to hundreds of billions! many countries, such as the USA, China, Canada, Australia and Russia, for which the problem of forest fires is relevant, have special aviation fire units [1,4,5]
In the early 90s, the situation changed dramatically, because constant underfunding, redistribution of ownership in the aviation industry, and reforms in the forestry department have led to a decrease in the efficiency of the “expensive” fire-fighting service [1,4]. The consequence of this attitude towards aviation protection was a sharp deterioration in the results of its activities and a catastrophic decrease in the level of fire protection of forests, because its contribution to the detection and extinguishing of forest fires was reduced by almost 2 times

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Introduction

Russia, which accounts for one fifth of all the world's forests, is considered a leading forest power, with a forest area of 8.1 million square kilometers, which occupies 49.4% of the country.

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