Fire Suppression System Maintenance Services

Today, most companies are more dependant on technology than ever.  Yet, losses through fire continue to increase.  According to a leading risk management consultant, the average loss for companies protected with a sprinkler system is nearly six times that of companies protected by clean agent fire suppression systems.  Statistics show that the majority of businesses that experience a major fire and fire-related downtime are out of business within three years.  Some never reopen at all.

With these facts in mind, it is no surprise that the faster you suppress a fire, the less resulting damage and disruption to your business.

Here are a few gases we can provide:

• FM 200
• Argonite
• Inergen
• Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

FM 200

Celsius Fire can offer you their expert maintenance and servicing of the best available fire suppression systems on the market today using FM-200.  It is a synthetic fire suppression agent that extinguishes the fire by removing the free radicals or heat element of the fire triangle.  The suppression system works this way:

• A fire in a protected area is sensed
• The control unit performs a series of actions: shutting down ventilation systems and equipment, sounding alarms and starting discharge of FM-200 into the protected area.
• The FM-200 agent stored in the agent containers is propelled through piping and nozzles into the protected area
• FM-200 discharges as a gas to all areas of the protected area, reaching 7% concentration in ten seconds and quickly suppressing the fire. You need to have your system regularly maintained.

Argonite

Argonite is a leading environmentally-friendly replacement for Halon 1301. An equal blend of nitrogen and argon, it produces no secondary combustion products and is particularly suitable for fighting fires in confined spaces. Because its molecular weight is close to that of air, it lingers longer when discharged to extinguish a fire. This reduces the need for hermetic sealing of a protected room a process that can be very expensive and needs to be repeated every time structural changes are made.

Argonite is not prone to fogging, is non-toxic, non corrosive, leaves no residue and is electrically non-conductive. This has led to it being successfully specified in applications where there is a need to avoid secondary damage by the fire fighting agent. Popular applications include computer and control rooms, tape and archive stores, electrical cabinets and switchgear compartments and around telecommunications equipment.

Inergen

Inergen is a mixture of nitrogen, argon and carbon dioxide gases and has been specially developed to provide fire protection as a Halon 1301 replacement. Inergen extinguishes fire by reducing the oxygen level in a room to below 15%, the point at which most combustibles will no longer burn. Simultaneously the carbon dioxide in Inergen stimulates the uptake of oxygen by the human body, so protecting anyone who might be trapped in the fire area from the effects of the lowered oxygen levels.

Inergen has been medically evaluated and approved by leading authorities around the world. All of them have accepted Inergen as being safe for use in "normally occupied areas". Inergen is the first Halon replacement to have been fully tested on humans.

Inergen is stored in gaseous form. It therefore does not produce fog when the gas is released into a room. Because Inergen is a mixture of naturally occurring gases, it does not form decomposition products in a fire. It has excellent retention time within the room.

Inergen has an impressive track record of fire fighting around the world with millions of pounds worth of equipment and production saved by the fast acting capability of Inergen.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) gas has a high ratio of expansion which facilitates rapid discharge and allows for three dimensional penetration of the entire hazard area quickly. Carbon Dioxide extinguishes a fire by reducing the oxygen content of the protected area below the point where it can support combustion. Carbon Dioxide Fire extinguishing systems typically store the agent in one of two different ways: in high pressure cylinders, or in low pressure CO2 tanks.

Due to the extreme density of the Carbon Dioxide, it quickly and effectively permeates the protected hazard area and suppresses the fire. Rapid expansion of the 4-6 inches of Carbon Dioxide snow to gas reduces the ambient temperature in the protected hazard area which aids in the extinguishing process and retards re-ignition.

All of our engineers are qualified to carry out service and maintenance on all systems including FM 200,Inert Agents such as Argonite, Inergen and Carbon Dioxide.

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