Automatic"Waterless" Fire Suppression Systems for Industrial/Manufacturing Facilities
Critical Assets to Protect:
- Aerosol production
- Anechoic test chambers
- Automotive paint spray booths
- Boiler/furnace room
- Cable trays
- Cell sites
- Cement plant coal mills
- Chemical and physical laboratories, fume hoods and glove boxes
- Clean rooms
- CNC machine centers
- Coating and finishing operations
- Compressor and pumping station equipment/facilities
- Control rooms, PLC areas
- Cranes
- Degreasing equipment
- Die cutters and dryers
- Dip tanks
- Dust collectors and bag houses
- Electric Discharge Machining (EDM)
- Electric mining machinery
- Electric power and motor control rooms
- Environmental test chambers
- Flammable liquid storage, handling, and transfer areas
- Flammable processes
- Fuel dispensing and storage areas
- Fume/exhaust recovery equipment
- Generator rooms
- Hazardous manufacturing and storage areas
- Heat treating equipment
- Industrial fryers
- Inventory
- IT systems/hardware/software
- IT/electrical cabinets
- Cafeteria cooking lines
- Laboratories
- Laminating processes
- Limited finishing work areas
- Locomotives
- Machinery and pump rooms
- Manufacturing machinery and assets
- Metal finishing
- Mixing vats
- Modular hazmat storage buildings
- Off-road vehicles
- Oil collection stations
- Ovens
- Paint mixing, application, and storage areas
- Particle board chippers
- Prep stations
- Printing presses and ink storage areas
- Quench tanks
- Records and media storage
- Recycling facilities
- Rolling mills
- Robotic equipment
- Semiconductor tool works
- Sensitive electronic equipment
- Solder machines - wave and reflow
- Spray booths and spray operations
- Spill containment dikes
- Sub-floors
- Switch gear rooms
- Test cells
- Test kitchen cooking lines
- Telecommunications equipment
- Transformers and transformer vaults
- Turbines
- Vital, long-replenishment time equipment, parts, and components
- Wet benches
- Wind generators
Other water-sensitive electronic equipment, processes, or areas
Fires successfully extinguished by fire systems designed, installed, and maintained by Illinois Fire & Safety:
Note: Estimated savings values do not include prevention of significant revenue-per-hour losses resulting in downtime that would have been incurred had the fires been allowed to continue without rapid extinguishment.
Feb '09 A fire occurred in a metal cutting machine. Stainless steel was being cut at the time and a small piece of paper got in the cooling oil tank and plugged the oil pump. Without oil flowing to cool the cutting process, the machine caught on fire. The detector "saw" the fire and automatically activated the Co2 extinguishing agent, while simultaneously calling the fire department. The fire system quickly put out the fire. There was no damage to the machine, which was back in operation within 1/2 an hour of the fire. The value of the machine was about $475,000.00, while the cost of the fire system to protect it was only $8,000.00.
Aug. '08 A fire occurred in the engine compartment of a wheel loader performing hot work in a steel mill. The engine compartment was protected with a foam system and the operator's cab was fitted with a deluge system that enabled the operator to safely escape the vehicle, while the foam system extinguished the fire. Estimated value of vehicle that was saved: $750,000.00.
May '08 A fire occurred in a CNC machine that was protected by a Co2 fire suppression system. This was the second fire in five months on the same machine. The fire was extinguished automatically without the need to fight the fire with portable fire extinguishers. Estimated value of the machine that was saved: $500,000.00.
Apr '08 A fire occurred in a CNC machine that was part of an interconnected line of machines. The line was protected by a Co2 fire system with optical and heat detectors. The detectors sensed the fire quickly and the system activated automatically, quickly extinguishing the fire and preventing it from involving the other interconnected machines in the line. Estimated value of the machine that was saved: $350,000.00 Estimated value of the line of machines that were saved: $2,200,000.00.
Feb. '08 A fire occurred in a CNC machine which was protected by a Co2 system. The system detected the fire and actuated automatically putting out the fire in seconds. Because the Co2 leaves no residue, no clean up was necessary and the machine was back in operation in less than half an hour. Estimated value of machine that was saved: $500,000.00.
Jan '08 A fire occurred in a CNC machine which was protected by a Co2 fire system. The fire was extinguished quickly with minimal damage and before the fire department arrived. Estimated value of the machine that was saved: $500,000.00.
Jan '07 Sparks from a welder ignited the filters in an automotive paint spray booth. The booth was protected by a dry chemical fire suppression system. The system's thermal bulb detectors sensed the fire and automatically activated the extinguishing system while the welder sought safety. The system discharged the dry chemical simultaneously in the work area, filter area, and exhaust duct preventing the spread of the fire throughout the whole booth. Estimated value of the booth that was saved: $22,000.00.
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