Wet Chemical Fire Extinguishers

The Uses of Wet Chemical Fire Extinguishers

In big kitchens cooking large quantities of food and in food-processing establishments, the wet chemical fire extinguishers are must equipment to have, ready for use against any class F fires involving cooking oils and fats, such as lard, olive oil, sunflower oil, maize oil and butter. The cooking of large quantities of food items for canning happens everyday, as food processing plants hurry to process raw food materials brought in by their suppliers. Some factories run 24-hour cooking operations so they can clear the receiving decks of these raw food items. Hence, there is a great need to have wet chemical fire extinguishers ready at anytime in case an accidental class F fire occurs.

The wet chemical fire extinguishers is extremely effective as the wet chemical rapidly knocks the flames out, cools the burning oil and chemically reacts to produce a soap-like solution, sealing the surface and preventing re-ignition. A large cooking vat containing 75 liters of burning oil can cause so much harm to people if not handled properly with an appropriate fire extinguisher. Burns acquired from scalding by burning oils are quite painful if this happens to a person, and the scars are even harder to get rid of. A scalding victim from burning oil can suffer a series of skin grafts just to restore his skin and remove the ugly scars left by the fire from burning oil.

The wet chemical fire extinguisher is easy to use, producing a gentle, but highly effective spray. The gentle application of the spray helps prevent the hot oil from splashing onto the user and possible scalding. The action of the chemical from the fire extinguisher results in cooling of the oil into a soapy type layer, covering the flames, thus stopping it from spreading. This type of fire extinguisher is also suited for use on other types of fires that come from freely burning materials (class A) such as wood, paper and fabrics. It can smother this type of wire as efficiently as the water fire extinguishers normally used against them.

The wet chemical fire extinguisher is selling in user-friendly 6-liter containers fully charged with the chemicals needed to suppress the F type fires they are designed to combat. The cylinder container, the lance and the nozzle are of high quality stainless steel with a unique hose swivel joint, intended to make the direction of the spray nozzle easy for the user. It is very simple to use with a controllable discharge of the wet chemical contents. Food processing factories using many oils in the preparation and cooking of food for canning employ many units of the wet chemical fire extinguishers in their compound, as ready tools they can use against the possibility of fires from the heated oils that are normally boiling in huge containers. It is the best way they can prevent fires of the F class from growing into uncontrollable proportions, since the firefighters from the fire department do not even have these kinds of fire extinguishers.