Fire Begins Before the Visible Flame
As a fuel heats, combustible vapours are released. Those vapours mix with oxygen and burn, generating more heat and continuing the combustion cycle.
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Fuel Vapours
Combustion
More Heat
Off-gassing (pyrolysis) is the critical phase where solid or liquid fuel transforms into gas. These vapours are what actually burn. By interrupting this process at the molecular level, Pyrocap stops the cycle before the flame can spread.
HOW PYROCAP WORKS
Pyrocap is designed to control fire by acting directly on the fuel and the conditions that allow combustion to continue. As fuel is heated, it releases combustible vapours. Pyrocap is designed to help interrupt that cycle by reducing heat and limiting the release of combustible vapours from the fuel.
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Early Interference
Target the Fuel
Interrupt Combustion
Direct Treatment
A fire depends on more than the visible flame. As fuel is heated, combustible vapours mix with oxygen and burn. Pyrocap interrupts this cycle.
Pyrocap is designed to interfere with this process by acting on the fuel, helping stop the release of combustible vapours while rapidly reducing heat.
As heat is removed and the off-gassing process is reduced, the fuel becomes less able to sustain combustion.
Unlike a foam blanket that must remain intact on the surface, Pyrocap is designed to penetrate and treat the fuel itself.
Not Another Foam
Pyrocap is not designed to work like a traditional firefighting foam.
Conventional foams depend on creating and maintaining a foam blanket over the fuel surface, and that blanket can be affected by application technique, nozzle selection, pressure, surface conditions, wind, heat, and disruption during the fire attack.
Pyrocap takes a different approach: mixed with water and applied directly to the fire and fuel, designed to penetrate and treat the fuel while helping reduce heat and interrupt the off-gassing process that sustains combustion.
Because Pyrocap does not depend on maintaining a foam blanket, it can be incorporated into existing firefighting operations using compatible conventional equipment, including standard nozzles, apparatus tanks, proportioning systems, fixed systems, and aerial delivery methods.
Traditional Foam
Creates a surface blanket intended to separate the fuel from oxygen and suppress vapour release.
FOAM BLANKET SITTING ON TOP OF FUEL
Pyrocap
Is applied directly with water to act on the fuel and the conditions that allow combustion to continue.
PYROCAP SOLUTION PENETRATING TOWARD THE FUEL
FIRE CONTROL BEFORE IGNITION
Pyrocap is not limited to active fire suppression.
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In appropriate applications, it can be used as a pre-treatment to help reduce the ability of fuels to ignite and sustain combustion.
This opens potential applications in wildland protection, exposed structures, industrial operations and other high-risk environments.
Safe for Life, Tough on Fire
Pyrocap's B-136 is a non hazardous formulation, PH neutral and non-corrosive; it will not damage equipment or burn skin. It's sustainable and environmentally responsible without compromising industrial suppressive power.