Spark Detection & Extinguishment Systems offer Safety for your Production
Spark Extinguishing System BS 7
GreCon spark extinguishing systems have been used for more than 30 years in many different industries in which dust-like organic or inorganic materials are extracted or pneumatically or mechanically transported (by elevators, for example). They serve to detect sparks and hot or glowing particles as well as other ignition sources in conveying facilities and to eliminate them before they cause severe damage to filters, silos or other plant areas at risk. Production plants that are equipped with GreCon spark extinguishing systems offer confidence that fire or explosions are reduced. ... Read more
In many different industries where bulk materials are processed, fires and dust explosions occur again and again worldwide with far reaching consequences.
Interruptions of the production process that are caused this way lead to substantial follow up costs, quite apart from the direct damage to persons and property. With GreCon spark detection and extinguishment systems, the risks of fire can be prevented by a special technique: detection, as quick as a flash, and automatic extinguishment of the ignition energy before fire can arise.
Your Benefit
- Events recorded exactly to the millisecond
- Risk management of your production process
- Remote Control Monitor and Safety Information System option available
- Eliminates ignition sources
- Fire and explosion prevention
- Avoid property, equipment and personal damage
- Maintain greatest production availability
- Discount for fire protection risk insurance possible
The Challenge
In times of worldwide competition, modern production plants become more and more efficient. Besides new factories, a continuous improvement and increase in productivity are therefore demanded from already existing and often obsolete production lines.
Nevertheless, production safety must not suffer from this. Above all, it is necessary to nip the creation of fires and explosions in the bud. Unprotected facilities for comminution, drying, cooling and pressing are especially at risk with their pneumatic or mechanical conveying or extraction systems.
Furthermore, there is a high danger potential for unprotected filters, silos or bins in these factories.
The Solution
GreCon spark detection and extinguishment systems substantially contribute to an elimination of such varied danger sources. As preventive fire protection for filter systems and silos in numerous production plants, they have been part of the standard equipment in the area of safety technology for decades to protect mechanical or pneumatic conveying systems. Spark detection and extinguishment systems can detect and eliminate ignition sources before fires or explosions occur.
The Function
A GreCon spark detection and extinguishment system is suitable for almost any position of the production process to ensure fire protection or monitoring functions by means of special sensors. IR detectors monitor conveyors and can if necessary activate high-speed water extinguishing devices within a few milliseconds. The spreading of ignition energy can be effectively prevented. A diversion or shut-off of the product flow is an option and is used whenever extinguishment with water is impossible.
Depending on the events, that are recorded exactly to the millisecond, adequate measures are automatically and specifically activated via a 4-fold graduated alarm system. These measures can be mostly carried out without interrupting the production process. Action is taken ad hoc to minimise damage and the resulting downtime without unnecessarily disturbing the production process.
Furthermore, filters or silos can be monitored for fire arising during standstill periods or self-ignition by suitable GreCon technology. In such cases, extinguishment is activated even before the operator or the fire brigade notice the arising fire.
The Prevention
The relevant events are available without exception via the alarm memory of the GreCon control console, even at a later time. This information can be easily transferred for analysis from an SD card to a PC and processed there by standard office software. For a well-structured alarm management, big GreCon spark detection and extinguishment systems integrate the GreCon safety information system (SIS), which, in case of an alarm, provides all information as well as the operation schedule. Operation and configuration are done in conversational mode via a menu-driven, self-explaining software package.
Statistics are automatically available via a long-time report of all alarms and troubles that is generated by the SIS. These statistics reflect – graphically processed – the condition of the production plant. By means of a traffic light principle (green-yellow-red), one can see at a glance whether and where a danger potential is developing. An impending accident can thus be prevented. The application is Web-based and therefore available online anywhere.
The Conclusion
With GreCon spark detection and extinguishment systems, a very high measure of system and operational safety and reliability is achieved. This is nowadays of very high importance in modern production plants, especially concerning safety regulations. The permanent availability of production facilities of high investment value is to be guaranteed, especially in difficult economic times and under (international) competitive pressure.