Fire protection for power plants

Fire protection for power plants
Grażyna Zawada

Grażyna Zawada – I am at your disposal

+48 515 380 743

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Comprehensive fire protection for power stations and combined heat and power plants.

We design and supply fire protection systems for power plants and combined heat and power plants – whether they are the largest or smaller plants, or decentralised power plants producing energy and/or heat from coal or biomass for their own production purposes (such as cement plants). Often our projects for the energy industry involve ensuring both fire and explosion safety.

Practice based on the experience in…

…the protection of biomass and coal combustion installations against fire and explosion hazards. The list opposite shows the companies for which we have designed and built protection systems and have largely carried out explosion risk assessment studies.

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We specialize in

Industrial facilities

  • energetics
  • wood industry
  • food industry
  • waste processing
  • chemicals and petrochemicals

Fire safety guidelines and standards

  • PN-EN
  • VdS
  • FM Global
  • NFPA

 Corrosive environment

  • we select plant components to suit your operating environment
  • experience in “difficult” industries,
  • including C5M/C5-I corrosive environments

Zdajemy sobie sprawę, że większość inwestycji związanych z modernizacją instalacji przeciwpożarowej wynika z wymogów, które stawiają zakładom przemysłowym ubezpieczyciele. Jeśli też jesteś w tej sytuacji, zapewne ubezpieczyciel wskazał, zgodnie z jaką normą lub standardem mają być wykonane zabezpieczenia przeciwpożarowe. Najważniejsze dla Ciebie jest to, że niezależnie jakie wymagania nakreślił Tobie ubezpieczyciel, spełnimy je wszystkie.

Which areas of the power plant do we protect?

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A FIRE AT A POWER STATION MEANS LOSSES OF MILLIONS OF

We have already carried out work on a number of power stations and combined heat and power plants. We have seen the damages from a possible fire, or explosion, in such facilities. The vast majority of the demand for energy and system heat in Poland is met by burning coal and cogeneration with biomass. These types of facilities are designed for continuous operation, so a possible fire could result in millions of zlotys in losses, but also huge problems in ensuring the continuous supply of energy and heat to consumers.

WHAT DOES OUR WORK FOR THE ENERGY INDUSTRY LOOK LIKE IN PRACTICE?

For power plants and combined heat and power plants burning coal (or coal with biomass), we have to take into account many factors that make up an extremely harsh working environment. First of all, there is the high temperature and high level of dust. As a result, any fire safety project must eliminate not only the risk of fire, but also the risk of a false fire alarm. This switching on of the fire fighting system as a result of a false alarm can also lead to millions of zlotys in damage.

WHAT WE ARE PROVIDING

Installing detection systems capable of detecting smouldering fires

Selecting detection and signalling systems to withstand harsh working conditions

Preventing false alarms, i.e. put out only when there is a fire

Minimising losses resulting from triggering an extinguisher due to a false alarm

Protecting all key facilities at thermal power plants / power stations

Carrying out the work without affecting the continuity of operations of the power plant

We move and work only in the areas which were made available to us

We strictly adhere to all safety procedures

Remember that coal dust, like biomass dust, is explosive!.

Therefore, in addition to ensuring fire safety, explosion safety must also be ensured in many areas of the power plant / CHP plant in accordance with the provisions of the ATEX Directive.

Scope of fire protection systems we implement

PROTECTION OF THE ANGLED BRIDGE

Deluge systems For power plants

We divide the bridge into multiple sprinkler sections so that the entire length of the conveyor is not flooded in the event of a fire

We make the installation, the piping, the sprinklers and feed the water to them and provide control panels

If required, we supply pipeline heating systems to prevent water from freezing

When designing a fire alarm system, we take into account the extremely difficult operating conditions for the sensors in order to counteract false alarms

We ensure that a fire can be detected quickly even at the smouldering stage

We supply optical and acoustic signalling devices

INTERNAL HYDRANT SYSTEM

We design and install internal hydrant systems and upgrade the existing hydrant systems

We connect hydrant risers to increase the pressure in the system and provide the required capacity

We carry out our the tasks without disturbing the facility

internal hydrant systems for power plant