Analysis of the problems of using mobile robotic tools in extinguishing fires at facilities of the fuel and energy complex and the formation of ways for their further development

The article is devoted to application of robotic tools for fire extinguishing at the facilities of fuel and energy complex. The fires at these facilities and the problems that arise during their extinguishing are analyzed. The analysis of fires has shown that nowadays the situation at fires at the objects of fuel and energy complex is aggravated, when the fire development occurs as a result of artillery shelling and attacks of unmanned aerial vehicles, as a result of which a number of forces and means of firefighting units and elements of autonomous firefighting system of tank farms can be out of order, and the usual tactics and methods of firefighting are difficult to perform in practice or impossible to perform, due to the destruction of the infrastructure of the object. There is considered the experience of creating robotic means in Russia and in foreign countries, as well as the problems arising in firefighting with the use of robotic means. The problem of lack of samples with supervisory control and a number of technical problems on their realization is revealed, in particular, there is not solved the issue of static stability of robotic means, especially in the remote control mode. For the first time the problem of high error of foam dosing systems and, as a consequence, increased consumption of foam agent and obtaining foam of low extinguishing power is outlined. The complexity of providing robotic means with uninterrupted supply of fire extinguishing agents, as well as the lack of the possibility of laying a hose line in automatic mode, for long distances is analyzed. The ways of solving the problems arising in fire extinguishing with the use of robotic means are proposed. The question of planning and supply of extinguishing agents by robotic means to the combustion zone is considered. Calculations of extinguishing a conditional fire in a tank at an oil depot with the use of robotic means are carried out. The relevance and expediency of robotic means application is determined and the ways of further improvement of robotic complexes systems on the basis of experiment and calculation indicators are proposed in order to increase the efficiency of their application.