SCOPE OF WORK: Foam fire suppression systems

• Development of project concepts and essential design engineering
• Selection and delivery of key components for foam fire suppression systems
• Development and implementation of control systems
• Development of foam fire suppression system model visualisation
• Solution integration with existing protection systems
• Installation, commissioning and servicing of fire protection systems

SCOPE OF WORK: Comprehensive fire protection systems

Aside from foam fire suppression systems, we can deliver comprehensive and integrated fire protection systems. Find the complete list of our solutions below. Depending on the project specifications, our solutions can include all of the listed items or a selection thereof. If required, we can provide its systems with the solutions existing on site.

1. Wired and wireless fire alarm systems
2. Fire detection system
3. Pressurization and smoke extraction systems
4. CCTV surveillance systems
5. Burglar and robbery (panic) alarm systems
6. VAS (voice alarm systems)
7. Access control, time and attendance control systems
8. Emergency and evacuation lights
9. Fixed fire extinguishing systems

FOAM FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS: System overview

We design and delivery foam fire suppression systems which use foaming agents mixed with water for fire extinguishing. One of three foam fire suppressants is selected, depending on the specifics of the rooms or vessels to be protected against fire and the characteristics of the substances which pose a risk of fire:

• Heavy foam: foaming number of 20 maximum (most often applied for quick filling of large volumes of space, like large production or warehouse floors)
• Moderate foam: foaming number between 20 and 200 (most often applied in areas where fire can originate at a small distance from the floor surface, like in storage rooms for plastic materials)
• Light foam: foaming number between 200 and 1,000 (most often applied for suppression of flammable liquids in breached vessels – the foam spills over the flaming liquid surface, isolates the oxygen supply and reduces the surface temperature)

The specific fire suppressant and its distribution method are selected optimally for the characteristics of flammable chemicals and the specification of the protected room or vessel.

Critical components of a foam fire suppression system:

• Automatic alarm check valve
• Supply piping
• Foaming agent source
• Water source
• Foam generator
• Control unit

Unlike other vendors, our core business is challenging fire protection solutions for industrial sectors – including Ex-zones. Our advantage is end-to-end design engineering and implementation of foam fire suppression systems and comprehensive fire protection solutions. The deliverables can include fire detection, alarm and suppression with emergency and evacuation lights, pressurization and smoke extraction, CCTV surveillance, and access control.

The foam fire suppression systems are applied in high fire risk locations, which include:

• storage tanks for fuels, solvents and other flammable liquids;
• storage locations of plastic materials;
• storage locations for flammable and/or explosive atmosphere forming products;
• chemical processing plants.