Fire Suppression And Protection System
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Passive fire protection (PFP), also known as Built Fire Protection, is an important component of any fire safety strategy. It plays a vital, and increasingly significant, role in safeguarding people, as well as limiting damage to buildings and their contents from fire and smoke.
Passive fire protection works by:
- Using fire-resistant walls and floors to limit the spread of fire, heat, and smoke by containing it in a single compartment in its area of origin.
- Protecting escape routes and providing vital escape time for occupants.
- Protecting a building’s critical structural members.
- Protecting a building’s assets.
- Passive fire protection works in conjunction with active fire prevention, such as sprinkler systems, suppression systems and extinguishers, and fire safety education of building occupants.
Firestopping
Firestopping best practice should always be followed from the start of any building design and its construction, as explained here in our nine-step guide to firestopping in new buildings. It is imperative that any gaps in new installations from refurbishments also have an appropriate firestop in place, as building fire protection systems could be compromised if not carried out.
The national standard for electrical installations, BS 7671 requires the installer wiring systems are properly sealed to provide an efficient firestop. The responsibility depends on the size of the projects. For small-scale projects, the electrical installer might be the only person involved and so the responsibility is on them. Larger projects might involve a specialist contractor, rather than the main contractor.
Suppression system:
If you manage a property or own a business, you probably have heard about the importance of fire protection systems, but do you know the difference between a sprinkler system and a suppression system? Do you know how fire suppression systems work or how to choose the right fire protection system for your establishment? It is imperative that you understand what fire suppression systems are and which work best in different scenarios. The wrong fire suppression system has the potential to cause more harm than an actual fire.
A fire suppression system is an engineered group of units that are built to extinguish fires through the application of a substance. Most commonly, a fire suppression system has built-in components that detect fires at the beginning stages through heat, smoke, and other warning signals. These are attached to an alarm system that will alert you when the fire has been detected and initiate steps for action to further suppress the fire. The majority of fire suppression systems will automatically release the application of an external substance to extinguish the fire after the detection and/or alert. However, some fire suppression systems have a manual application release.
CLEAN AGENT FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS
Clean Agent fire suppression systems use environmentally friendly chemical reagents to extinguish fires in sensitive spaces like data centers. The clean-up is minimal, water-free, and safe for the environment.
CARBON DIOXIDE FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS
Carbon Dioxide fire suppression systems use the colorless, odorless gas CO2 to extinguish fires. This system is very efficient and reduces cost and downtime through easy clean-up.
RESTAURANT FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS
Restaurant fire suppression systems are specifically designed to extinguish fires fueled by grease and in a kitchen environment. They use wet chemicals in a fine mist to quickly extinguish fires and offer a quicker clean-up than dry chemicals.
INDUSTRIAL FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS
Industrial plants are high hazard environments and industrial fire suppression systems are designed to confidently extinguish fires fueled by chemicals, liquid fuels, or hazardous materials. For this reason, industrial fire suppression systems use dry chemicals.
Oyster Infracon
Oyster Infracon Pvt. Ltd., is an approved license agency from Maharashtra Fire Services.