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Fire Suppression ImageAutomatic"Waterless" Fire Suppression Systems for Industrial/Manufacturing Facilities

Critical Assets to Protect:

  1. Aerosol production
  2. Anechoic test chambers
  3. Automotive paint spray booths
  4. Boiler/furnace room
  5. Cable trays
  6. Cell sites
  7. Cement plant coal mills
  8. Chemical and physical laboratories, fume hoods and glove boxes
  9. Clean rooms
  10. CNC machine centers
  11. Coating and finishing operations
  12. Compressor and pumping station equipment/facilities
  13. Control rooms, PLC areas
  14. Cranes
  15. Degreasing equipment
  16. Dip tanks
  17. Dust collectors and bag houses
  18. Electric Discharge Machining (EDM)
  19. Electric mining machinery
  20. Electric power and motor control rooms
  21. Environmental test chambers
  22. Flammable liquid storage, handling, and transfer areas
  23. Flammable processes
  24. Fuel dispensing and storage areas
  25. Fume/exhaust recovery equipment
  26. Generator rooms
  27. Hazardous manufacturing and storage areas
  28. Heat treating equipment
  29. Industrial fryers
  30. Inventory
  31. IT systems/hardware/software
  32. IT/electrical cabinets
  33. Cafeteria cooking lines
  34. Laboratories
  35. Laminating processes
  36. Limited finishing work areas
  37. Locomotives
  38. Machinery and pump rooms
  39. Manufacturing machinery and assets
  40. Metal finishing
  41. Mixing vats
  42. Modular hazmat storage buildings
  43. Off-road vehicles
  44. Oil collection stations
  45. Ovens
  46. Paint mixing, application, and storage areas
  47. Particle board chippers
  48. Prep stations
  49. Printing presses and ink storage areas
  50. Quench tanks
  51. Records and media storage
  52. Rolling mills
  53. Robotic equipment
  54. Semiconductor tool works
  55. Sensitive electronic equipment
  56. Solder machines - wave and reflow
  57. Spray booths and spray operations
  58. Spill containment dikes
  59. Sub-floors
  60. Switch gear rooms
  61. Test cells
  62. Test kitchen cooking lines
  63. Telecommunications equipment
  64. Transformers and transformer vaults
  65. Turbines
  66. Vital, long-replenishment time equipment, parts, and components
  67. Wet benches
  68. Wind generators

Other water-sensitive electronic equipment, processes, or areas

 

 Safety First

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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