GAS-BASED

FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM

SABERINDO PACIFIC

“The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman philosopher born in 106 BC
EAN AGENT SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS
Clean agent fire suppression systems are an ideal supplement to sprinkler systems to
protect any type of assets that could be damaged by water.
Clean agent fire suppression systems disperse an inert gas or halocarbon gases to
suppress a fire in its incipient stage before reaching the flame/heat stage that would
activate the fire sprinkler system.
Come in 2 gaseous groups:
1. Inert gases – naturally occurring gases - nitrogen, argon,
CO2 , or combinations (eg IG-541, IG-55). They extinguish
fires by reducing the oxygen level below 15%.
2. Synthetic gases – manmade agents like Novec 1230 &
FM200. Extinguishes fires by reducing heat and
interfering with the fire’s chemical reaction

sed on NFPA 12
EAN AGENT FIRE HAZARDS
Cleant Agent is effective on a wide range of flammable and combustible material
in both surface and deep-seated fires.
Clean Agent systems can satisfactorily protect:

lammable Liquid Engines With

Electrical Hazards Combustibles Solid
Materials Flammable Liquid Fuels

sed on NFPA 12
EAN AGENT SUPPRESSION SYSTEM BENEFITS
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIEND
FAST - Within seconds, clean – Inert gas has no environmental imp
while NOVEC 1230 still has it but with
penetrates the entire hazard area to
very low degree. FM-200 is not advisa
smother combustion.
if environment is your concern.

NON-DAMAGING – Cleant
Agent is normally harmless to NON-CONDUCTIVE – Cleant Ag
quipment, materials and property. It is electrically non-conductive, allowing
does not cause spoilage, requires no for a wide variety of special application
clean up and leaves no residue, thus
minimizing downtime after a fire.
HERE TO USE CLEAN AGENT
Computer systems including server, and other electrical components
Telecommunications systems
Record/file repositories and libraries – anything with paper that must be
protected
Digital data repositories
Cultural assets such as historical buildings, museums, and artwork
Flammable liquid storage for which sprinkler systems may not provide
proper protection
Subfloors with critical building infrastructure that can be damaged with
exposure to water
Laboratory and medical equipment
HEN TO USE CLEAN AGENT
Protecting high value assets
 Energized electrical areas
 Artifacts and archived data
Must maintain continuous operations
Life safety is a concern
 Emergency communication
 Occuppied or or may be occupied
Must be a clean agent
 No residue
OW CLEANT AGENT WORKS
vec 1230 &  Both Novec 1230 and FM-200 work
FM-200
to extinguish fire and prevent re-
ignition by removing the necessary
elements of combustion – heat.
 Unlike Novec 1230 and FM-200,
Inert is a gaseous clean agent made
up of a mixture of various inert type
gases. Inert gas systems work by
reducing the oxygen in the space to
below that required for combustion.
Inert Gas
OW CLEAN AGENTS WORK

Inert Gas Novec 1230 FM-200

A mixture of the
A hydrofluorocarbon
inert gases: A fluorinated ketone
(HFC) compound
e of Compound nitrogen, argon, and containing carbon,
containing hydrogen,
carbon dioxide fluorine, and oxygen
fluorine, and carbon
(CO2)
Stored as a
rage Stored as a gas Stored as a liquid
liquefied compressed g
charge Time 60 seconds 10 seconds 10 seconds
rking Pressure 200 - 300 bar 25 bar – 50 Bar 25 bar- 50 Bar
an Up None None None
OGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Inert Gas Systems Novec 1230 and FM-200 Syste
imity of Cylinders to Must be located within or very n
Can be located further away
ected Space the space to be protected
Requires more cylinders for the Requires fewer cylinders for sam
same area protected than Novec amount of space to be protected
mber of Cylinders 1230 and FM-200 – more storage less storage space than Inert gas
space but can protect more than systems and also less piping
one area using selector valves required
Pressure only, no need to weigh Agent containers weight and
cylinders but pressure must be pressure must be checked. Could
ght of Cylinders
checked on each cylinder with a require removing containers and
calibrated gauge placing on scale
Room pressure venting may Typically no special ventilation
tilation Requirements
be required required
ACE STORAGE COMPARISON
The graphic below is based on the cyllinder requirements
for a 200 m3 Class A Hazard.
OTENTIAL HEALTH EFFECTS OF CLEAN AGENTS
Design Concentration – Concentration of
agent in the protected space that are safe
or occupied spaces to extinguish Class A, B
or C type fires.
The No Observable Adverse Effects Level
NOAEL) – The highest concentration at
which adverse toxilogical or psychological
effect has been observed.
Lowest Observable Adverse Effect Level
LOEAL) - The lowest concentration at which
an adverse psychological or toxicological Inert Gas Novec 1230 FM-200
Use Concentration 34.2 - 42% 4.0 - 6.0% 6.7 - 8.7
effects have been observed.
No Observable
Adverse Effects Level 43% 10% 9%
(NOAEL)
NVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS
Halon is a Monobrotrifluoromethane
with very high ozone depletion
properties. Its production was banned in
1994 under the Clean Air Act.
FM-200 – a hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) –
was the first replacement for Halon that
promised no impacts to the ozone layer.
Inert Gas Novec 1230 FM-
However, the increasing concern over Ozone Depletion
None None No
global warming has given rise to newer Potential (ODP)
1 (equivalent to
alternatives such as Novec 1230 – the Global Warming
None that of carbon 350
Potential (GWP)
first clean agent on the market to boast dioxide)
Atmospheric Lifetime
no impact to the ozone layer or global (years)
None 0.014 (5 days) 36

warming – and Inerts.

STEM DESIGN CONSIDERATION
Determine Class Determine Net Determine Ha
Hazard Volume Temperatur

Determine Determine
Determine
Altitude Minimum Des
Cylinder Size
Correction Factor Concentratio

Determine Determine
Determine Pipe
Quantity of Detection an
Size
Nozzles Control Syste
RE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM LAYOUT & OPERATION
1. Automatic Operation - Operation that does n
require any human action.

2. Normal Manual Operation (Manual Reale

& Abort) - Operation of the system requiring hu
action where the location of the device used to c
operation makes it easily accessible at all times t
hazard and still full operation system.

3. Emergency Manual Operation (Pneumatic

Operation of the system by human means where
device used to cause operation is fully mechanic
nature and is located at or near the device being
controlled.

1. Makrofon 13. Extinguishing agent battery w

2. Nozzle RD slave actuation
3. Equipment protection nozzle ED 14. Release cylinder (slave actuat
4. Release box VZ3 15. Control device, pneumatic (SE
5. Extinguishing agent battery with 16. Pneumatic release device PAE
masteractuation 17. Snow nozzle
6. Manifold 18. Nozzle DD with nozzle attachm
7. Pilot distributor for ventilation ducts
8. Shuttle non-return valve MX
9. Blocking device MX R. To the reserve battery
10. Safety valve
11. Selector valves
12. Selector valve distributor
 EAN AGENT FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS MAINTENANCE
The NFPA 2001 Standard on Clean Agent Fire Extinguishing
Systems requires that your system as a whole must be inspected
annually.
The cylinders must be checked for weight and/or pressure every
six months to ensure they have the required quantity of clean
agent and that they are properly pressurized.