Fire Protection Solutions For Warehouses and Logistics Centres

Fire Detection and suppression in warehouses

Storage occupancies often encompass large open spaces occupied by only a few people. With few occupants in the area, fires in the incipient stage may go undetected for an extended time period, particularly in spaces not protected by automatic fire detection or suppression systems. Developing and implementing a comprehensive fire protection plan are essential to minimize the potential for significant fire loss and disruption of operations. The changing footprint and potential pile collapse in storage facilities make manual firefighting difficult.

Warehouse Fire Protection Goals:

• Personnel protection
• Protecting investments in goods, technology, and buildings
• Protecting operating processes and maintaining the uninterrupted delivery capability
• Environmental Protection

Aspiration/ Air sampling Smoke Detector for Warehouse

Modern, automated and large-scale storage facilities are key infrastructures in the supply chain of almost every company. They are sensitive, even a small fire can seriously jeopardize business continuity. Aspirating smoke detection technology (ASD) ensures optimum protection. The ASD react quickly and precisely in the event of a fire (can detect fires with 2,000 times more sensitive than conventional smoke detectors), their early warning capability allows it to be brought under control before it takes hold.

Peregrine Provides a complete range of models for Air Sampling Smoke Detectors (ASD) with monitoring area range from 720m² to 5760 m² and Large adjustable sensitivity range from 0.002 to 10 %/m. These Detectors are immune to environmental contaminants such as dust, dirt, moisture and steam. ASD is among the most precise and most reliable early warning systems against fires, providing lightning-fast detection of fires both scalable and cost-effective for any monitoring area.

Automatic Sprinkler Protection

According to NFPA Storage standards (NFPA 13, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems) which outline methods for providing effective fire protection for various types of storage occupancies, Sprinkler systems are the backbone of an effective fire protection strategy for storage facilities. As suggested by National Fire Protection Association, the best means of Fire Control in Storage facilities is a well-designed and properly maintained Sprinkler system. PEREGRINE Sprinkler Systems are designed to react at predetermined temperatures by automatically releasing a stream of water and distributing it in specified patterns and quantities over designated areas through a system of piping. An effective fire Sprinkler System for the warehouse whether Wet, Dry, Preaction, or Deluge needs to take into account various factors, including the commodity classification, the storage arrangement, the storage height, and clearance from the top of storage to sprinklers, water supply, and construction.

Wet pipe sprinklers were effective in 84% of the warehouse fires in which they were present and contributed to a 61% reduction in dollar loss in those fires. pipe sprinklers– NFPA

Foam Fire Suppression

It is often necessary to install a fixed foam fire protection system to protect warehouse facilities where flammable liquids are stored or used during a manufacturing process. PEREGRINE offers a Foam water Sprinkler System and High Expansion Foam System as two different methods of supplying fire protection through Foam. The design of the foam-water sprinkler system generally falls under one or more of the following:

NFPA 13: Installation of Sprinkler Systems
NFPA 16: Installation of Deluge Foam-Water Sprinkler and Foam-Water Spray Systems
NFPA 30: Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code
AHJ: Authority Having Jurisdiction.

Each fire Protection design must take into consideration the overall effectiveness, flexibility, and cost in relation to the design goals.

• PEREGRINE Sprinkler System is a combination of underground and overhead piping connected to an automatic water supply.
• The piping is specially sized or hydraulically designed and generally located overhead within the building.
• Sprinklers are attached to the overhead piping in a systematic pattern and a valve controlling each riser is located either directly on the system riser or in the supply piping.
• The system is usually activated by heat from a fire and discharges water over the fire area. Automatic Fire Sprinkler is only activated when a fire generates a sufficient quantity of heat and will control or suppress the fire once it has been activated.
• The alarm actuating Device sounds an alarm when the system operates and is located on the system riser.
• Control valves are installed on the system to manually shut off water flow to all or a portion of the system piping and the sprinklers.
• Foam water Sprinkler Systems discharges foam solution through the open sprinkler or nozzle to the hazard. Detection systems are often provided to actuate the system automatically as in the case of an open-head Deluge System.
• The high Expansion Foam System uses two principal methods for the generation of fire-fighting foams. The first method employs a modified venturi action with an air aspiration flow, whereas the second requires the use of a blower and screen to form the finished foam. The latter technique generates high-expansion foam containing sufficient residual kinetic energy to enable it to be forced through large tubes and passageways.
• PEREGRINE air sampling smoke detector is an active fire detection using air sampling to identify smoke early on.