Steam Beam

Value for the Investor

Steam Beam® doubles your money in 3 years.

The patent, to tame every conflagration: WO2008019660

That pays off.

Value for the Customer

Steam Beam® extinguish a major fire over 300 times faster than all past procedures. A forest fire, that so far 3 weeks burned is in 1,5 hours out. A major fire, that so far 2 days burned is in 10 minutes out. There are not damages caused by water any longer. Heat damages are strongly reduced.
Losses of production and their subsequent costs particularly in global networking are strongly reduced. Security of infrastructures, industrial plants, oil and rigs and plants, forests, rivers and lakes is strongly increased.
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Unique Selling Propositions

Steam as fire extinguishing agents is well-known and proven, only the production locally was too complex. Knowledge and experience over steam engines are gained for 240 years. Is new to use the warmth of the fire as energy source for the extinguishing process. This increases the insurance of operation enormously, since the energy source cannot fail.

The 4 extinguishing effects

1. cooling of the fire source

2. deoxidation

3. stack-effect disappers

4. heat radiation is absorbed

Structure and Function

A 20m to 60m long and hydraulic movable arm is directly moved into the scene of fire. The design is a crane or a concrete pump similar, with the difference that the extinguish arm by extinguish water is chilled. See above picture 1 and click on it to enlarge, please. The extinguish arm consists of several pipes. At the joints are hydraulic cylinders, which the pipes move to the scene of the fire. A pump in fire fighting vehicle brings the extinguish water through the tube until the head. On the way through the pipe cools water extinguish arm that the tubes and hydraulic system, and protects so the material of high temperature. The continuous-flow heater at the head is directly placed into the scene of  fire and atmospheric oxygen moves. With a mast on the fire fighting vehicle extinguish arm can be connected with a balance weight. See below picture 2 and click on to enlarge it, please. The construction is now a truck-mounted crane similar. The fire fighting vehicle can move without lateral support and follow the fire line of a forest fire or a street to protect a emergency route. In the water heaters the heat of the fire completely evaporate the water. This overheated steam is by a ring of nozzles with a pressure 5 bar to 10 bar blown on the scene of a fire. The ring of nozzles has on the circumference 12 Laval nozzles, which in each case spend a steam jet with a length from 5m to 10m. The expenditure angles of 30°x 12=360° form a complete circle and thus steam cover. The following values results:

Technology today: With the water full jet water evaporates only 2% of 1 liter. From 0,02l water 34 liters of 0.034 cubic meters steam develop, somewhere on the way to the fire source and escape immediately upward.

With Steam Beam® develop from 1 liter water of 1700 liters or 1.7 cubic meters steam. That is an improvement of the extinguish volume around the factor 50.

This steam is accelerated by a Laval nozzle on supersonic speed and blown through the fire source up to the ground. The Steam is forced to accept the maximum temperature of the fire source of 1200 degrees C. Then a volume of 5,5 cubic meters results, and steam takes up thereby once again the amount of heat, which corresponds to the evaporation warmth! That is an improvement of the extinguish volume around the factor 160 when simultaneous duplication the heat absorption. Steam Beam extinguish thus at least 320 times as well as water simply pours on the fire. This is not surprising. The method to produce with an explosion of explosive large volume gas which extinguish an oil flame Red Adair used. This procedure needs however a preparation lasting for weeks and functions evenly only for the fraction one second. Steam Beam functions immediately the vehicle arrives at the fire. The radiation heat from 20 to 30 meters distance is already sufficient to produce at the heat exchanger steam. With security of the heat of the fire, Steam Beam functions longer, than it is necessary, this heat to cool. With 500°C the flames expire. At this temperature the danger of the reignite of the fire exists. 500°C are the far above boiling temperature of water. Steam Beam produced thus so long steam, until the entire fire source, which environment and the heat exchanger a temperature of under 100°C reached. The fire is then out. Please read section above, till it was understood. Thanks!

Steam Beam® has through flowing steam several extinguishing effects at the same time:

1. By the screen over the fire source the fire tower effect is suppressed downwards. It does not come air to the fire source after. A fire tower ends.

2. The fire source is rinsed in its volume with steam. The atmospheric oxygen and the hot incineration gases are pushed from the fire source.

3. The pyrolysis phase at the surface of the fuel is cooled. Steam loops a burning piece, and prevents the emergence combustible gases.

4. Water vapor absorbs the radiation heat of the fire source. The reflecting warmth of the flames on the fire source is also responsible for the pyrolysis of the fuel. If pyrolysis is interrupted, also the fire ends.

5. The fire source is extinguished from bottom to top.

6. The fire source and the environment are covered after the extinguishing process with condensation water.

7. A large surface is extinguished at the same time.

Further Advantages of the Invention

• the fire fighting water is completely used
• buildings remain dry
• rivers and lakes remain clean
• catchment basins for fire fighting waters remain dry
• forest fire can from bottom to top be extinguished
• the extinguish arm can be led across a burning object. If persons are endangered, first an entrance for rescue personnel can be extinguished
• the thermal image camera shows the fire source through smoke and flames
• only fire sources use water, and only as much as to extinguish is actually necessary. An automatic regulation results.
• Steam Beam cannot overheat. The more heat the more steam one produces.
• operational principle is proven, sees Proof OF Concept
• the novelty and the inventive step are confirmed of the European Patent Office

To Picture 3 see below Steam Beam® at a Helicopter

Steam Beam can be operated also as oblong heat exchangers. In addition heat exchangers and ring of nozzles alternate and form so a column. This column is highly pulled now hanging on a long hose with a helicopter. The water tank is above at the helicopter, then the hose can be cooled by the fire fighting water. Steam the column is brought now directly into the flame line of the forest fire. Only the pressure of steam opens the nozzles in the ring of nozzles. Thus from next proximity steam is delivered on burning branches and trees. In each case the heat exchanger with the largest heat absorption delivers also at most steam. Assumed a redwood tree of 100m height burns within a range from 80m to 100m height, a so-called treetop fire. To this fire now a Steam Beam column with a length by 10m with a helicopter is brought. The helicopter is at a safe altitude of 400m over the fire. Meaningful way from bottom to top one extinguishes. The pilot will thus position the column first from 80m to 90m, and extinguish the tree. The top of the metallic hose delivers no steam, is however protected by the contained fire fighting water. If the helicopter should be pressed by a gust of wind around 5m downward, then the nozzles lock in the lower part of the column, as soon as the steam pressure is not sufficient any longer. The nozzles in the top deliver steam according to the heat at the heat exchanger. In this way a helicopter can extinguish the entire tree height and the forest ground along the fire line of a forest fire. An optimal regulation of the steam quantity results automatically, since always within the range of the largest heat to most steam one transfers. The fire snap in such a way with least possible quantity of extinguish water. The heat exchanger pipes are insensitively to striking to a tree. Beyond that give it over 200 years experience in the building of heat exchanger for steam locomotives, and over 240 years experience in the building of steam engines. 

The simple pictures show schematically the function. Click on it to enlarge it, please.

More details are passed on in a license negotiation and after a conclusion of a contract.

 Comparison of the Costs of a Fire in a Storage 

 The loss at market shares must be not for a long time explained to a plant fire brigade. Headline events with fires in newspapers are no advertisement for a company. For a municipality the loss at market share may not be the center of attention, if it around the acquisition of a fire-brigade. If industrial companies are to be affect to the place, a good supply can very probably give the excursion. If a country wide supply is present, also the construction specifications for catchment basins for fire fighting waters can be loosened.

Market Analysis

Steam Beam® is not meant for the extinguishing of candles on birth cakes from children. A child of one year can blow the candle on the cake out. That is not global a problem. A burning Christian tree is to be extinguished with a commercial 6-kg- extinguisher. Provided, the 3 pictures of the operating instructions were read before, understood before and can be converted into action. That is nearly global nearly no problem. A burning living room can be extinguished by the fire-brigade called here. That is not in many countries of the earth a problem. Steam Beam® was developed for fires, which cannot be extinguished of 10 firefighters no more. These major fires and forest fires are global a problem. The reduction of the damages caused by water with large fires makes Steam Beam for each plant fire brigade interesting. Damages caused by water are with the 3 – to 10 times of the fire damage. Damage to electrical and electronic systems leads to losses of production and further subsequent costs. A call system for fire-brigades, their case of fire except control turns out is a first step. A location system for Steam Beam, in order to be able to reach in 20 to 30 min. country widely each place, is politically achievable and can be financed. see page 11 An appropriate calculation can be accepted for each industrialized country. Forest fires will continue to increase due to climate warming. Their speed and thus their danger continue to increase. Steam Beam® as vehicle can be used everywhere in inhabited areas, in order to keep roads and a security strip from 30m to 40m beside the roads free as emergency route. Airplanes with water to the forest fire fight to begin is often risky and a little effective. The pilots risk their life in the low-altitude flight, and nevertheless often the water spent away by the wind without any extinguishing effect. With Steam Beam can fly a helicopter in safe height, and follow with low speed of the fire line of a forest fire. Only with contact with the fire the optimal water vapour quantity from next proximity is blown into the fire. This technology is practically everywhere applicable on earth. Accordingly largely and global there are markets for large extinguishing vehicles and for Steam Beam® systems portable of the helicopter. Southern France, Portugal, Italy, Spain, California, Australia, Southeast Asia, Russia, China, Canada…….. more details regularly in the newscast. Earthquakes are feared also because of major fires released thereby. With earthquakes the economical employment of fire fighting water is still more important, since the supply lines for water are interrupted often. Japan with closely build hauses of timber buildings is a market. Sources of oil, offshore oil platform, oil tanker can be extinguished so far only at large expenditure. The time is too short often, and workers are in mortal danger. Steam Beam® can be installed also on ships As far Steam Beam® is applicable to underground coal fires need to be investigated. For the development national means of over 50% of the budget are to be expected. The conversion of this idea leads to world-wide attention, and can improve other products of a company in their position at the market also strongly. Target Groups Large firms in the industry: Chemistry companies, pharmaceutical companies, tire camp, tire manufacturer, cellulose, paper their processing and storage, oil camp, refineries, gas bearing, municipalities. The traffic go on after an accident faster. The damage to road and environment is smaller.

Competition technologies

For the extinguishing of major fires there are so far hardly solutions. The method large quantities water on the fire to give did not function with the offshore oil rig in the gulf of Mexico. Were 5 ships with large water achievements and throwing ranges locally, but the fire was not to be brought also in 2 days under control. In general is it like that major fires cannot be extinguished. Only the propagation is prevented, center burns to nothing inflammable is more there.

Turbo Extinguisher

With gas turbines a strong exhaust gas jet is produced, entered into the water. The high speed swirls the water to fine droplets. This principle was developed for the extinguishing of sources of oil in Iraq. Two Mig engines were install on a tank. For that Turbo Extinguisher smaller alpha engines were used. The installation of the necessarily 2:30 hours, a second vehicle for the water supply and enormously personnel is necessary. The installation is not mobile any longer. For a forest fire fight this is completely unsuitable. Tanker aircrafts to the forest fire fight represent likewise an enormous expenditure. The risk of the pilots often stands none in meaningful relation to the use.

Steam Beam® as Revolution Container

Data and Costs

A price comparison is best possible with a truck crane or a work platform. The heat exchanger at the point will have 10 kg to 40 kg weight. The pipe for a water supply from 5 liters to 10 liters per minute has only a small weight. Cranes or work platforms for a so low weight are so far not built. Therefore no exact prices can be found.

Steam Beam® as Extinguisher Equipment at the Helicopter

Data and Costs

The extinguisher equipment is also hanging from the helicopter to the extinguish of forest fires possible. See picture 3. In addition the 10-kg- heat exchanger ten- to twenty-way is set one above the other. The helicopter flies at a safe value of up to 500m over the fire which 400 kg weight for the hose brings.

License and Sale