Nick Ketteridge, Technical Director of the Ultra Fire Group, has joined the European Standard CEN/TC191 working group as a UK expert in design, installation and testing of fire suppression systems (water mist).
This is a highly significant appointment for Nick and for the Ultra Fire Group - underlining our position at the top table of fire suppression technology and leadership. We congratulate Nick on his achievement and look forward to assisting the Working Group on their work into formulating new standards in fire suppression design and installation.
The working group are currently working on the development of workable protocols for a number of specific applications including office scenarios, transformer protection and car park safety. Water mist systems designed by Ultra Fire Group are robustly tested and can be installed in a huge variety of applications across domestic, industrial and business premises to offer the highest standards in fire protection.
Our website has numerous videos of water mist systems in action under test conditions as well as a wealth of technical and application information and contact details to speak to the industry leaders at the forefront of water mist fire suppression system design.
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Friday, 18 March 2011
Friday, 29 October 2010
BRITISH STANDARD FOR WATERMIST
BRITISH STANDARD FOR WATERMIST
A new draft British standard (DD 8458) for watermist fire protection systems has just been published, nearing completion, covering industrial/commercial and domestic/residential applications.
The new document for fire protection in domestic and residential premises has now been completed by the technical committee with very few issues needing to be addressed and only one of these being of a technical nature. It has now has been submitted to the committee chairman for the final sign-off before publication.
The document has been written as a complement to the current BS9251 standard covering the use of sprinklers. The main factor that prevented misting systems from being compliant with BS9251 has been the standard’s restrictions on nozzle spacing and minimum flow rates of water.
These regulations are currently based on long-standing tried and tested historical data, which cannot be applied to water mist systems for two reasons:
• Similar historical data does not exist for misting systems
• All manufacturers of water mist systems have flow rates and pressures that are unique to them
Based on this it was felt that to produce a robust document, test protocols should be included to prove the effectiveness of a system before it could claim compliance. These criteria have now been added as an annex to the main document.
Ultra SS Fire Group Ltd aims to be the first company in the UK to carry out full scale testing to comply with these protocols.
Watch this space.......
A new draft British standard (DD 8458) for watermist fire protection systems has just been published, nearing completion, covering industrial/commercial and domestic/residential applications.
The new document for fire protection in domestic and residential premises has now been completed by the technical committee with very few issues needing to be addressed and only one of these being of a technical nature. It has now has been submitted to the committee chairman for the final sign-off before publication.
The document has been written as a complement to the current BS9251 standard covering the use of sprinklers. The main factor that prevented misting systems from being compliant with BS9251 has been the standard’s restrictions on nozzle spacing and minimum flow rates of water.
These regulations are currently based on long-standing tried and tested historical data, which cannot be applied to water mist systems for two reasons:
• Similar historical data does not exist for misting systems
• All manufacturers of water mist systems have flow rates and pressures that are unique to them
Based on this it was felt that to produce a robust document, test protocols should be included to prove the effectiveness of a system before it could claim compliance. These criteria have now been added as an annex to the main document.
Ultra SS Fire Group Ltd aims to be the first company in the UK to carry out full scale testing to comply with these protocols.
Watch this space.......
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