A World of Protection by Mhe

Michael Hammond Engineering Company Limited
The Strength Behind Every Great Organisation
A WORLD OF FIRE PROTECTION
A PRESENTATION ON FIRE FIGHTING FOR HIGH RISK CRITICAL FACILITIES

www.michaelhammondeng.com
Michael Hammond Engineering Company Limited

The Strength Behind Every Great Organisation
INTRODUCTION
MICHAEL HAMMOND ENGINEERING CO. LTD. was incorporated in 1974 as a wholly indigenous company engaged in the supply, installation and maintenance of a wide range of mechanical and electrical equipment. Most of the equipment supplied and maintained by us are protective and preventive in nature giving added lifespan to our customers investments. For example, UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS and CLOSE CONTROL AIRCONDITIONING, protect computers against power outages and prevent them from environmental hazards, while STABILISERS protect sensitive electronic equipment from the dangers of power variations. This is why in the early Eighties we started to propagate the idea of providing FIRE PROTECTION to our customers, to protect them and their investments against the dangers of FIRES.
Michael Hammond Engineering Company Limited The Strength Behind Every Great Organisation
TOGETHER TO PROTECT YOU AND YOUR INVESTMENT
We believe that FIRE PROTECTION has been one of the most neglected areas of safety in Nigeria, and we have aligned ourselves with the global leaders in this field CHEMETRON FIRE SYSTEMS, this is in order to provide our customers with high quality products and services that are both efficient and cost effective. We stock a wide range of products that both DETECT and EXTINGUISH FIRES, we also assist corporations in the training of their staff, for the event of fire by carrying out FIRE DRILLS. Our facilities include a FM 200 BOTTLE REFILLING PLANT. We have a highly motivated group of factory trained Fire Engineers who are on call 24 hours a day (via GSM Phones and e-mail), and are ready to answer any questions, offer advice and give quotes. We see nothing in bending over backwards to serve the needs of our customers We provide HAZARD SPECIFIC FIRE SUPPRESSING AGENTS to suite the needs of our customers, this is in order to safeguard the lives of their personnel and to minimise downtime and costs that will be incurred in the event of a fire.
Extinguishing Agents are the gases used to put out fires. Specific agents will be required for specific hazards, and in order for it to be completely effective extinguishing agent mustcause minimal or no damage to any equipment within the hazard area not have any ill effects on personnel put out the fire in a minimal amount of time (10 seconds) The extinguishing agent depending on the following variables: Volume of the room or area Cause/ Nature of the fire Contents of area (Flammable objects or materials) The number of occupants of area Some agents like Halon 1301 (banned in Montreal Protocol) are toxic to humans, have adverse effects on the Ozone layer and leave residues that are damaging to equipment and machinery. Also, conformity with international safety standards like the Montreal Protocol, NFPA 2001 and ISO 14520 have to be made, and taken into consideration before an appropriate agent can be chosen.
EXTINGUISHING AGENTS
EXTINGUISHING AGENTS
There are 3 Agents that conform to International Fire Safety Standards and that have been found to be the best extinguishants, they are; FM 200 Developed as a Halon replacement, it is the most human friendly clean agent fire protection for critical facilities. We have designed many systems with FM 200 and our partners Chemetron have developed an innovative Flow Calculation Software Program to aid us in designing systems for all applications. Argonite Argonite is an inert gas that extinguishes fires based on the principle of oxygen depletion. It is environmentally acceptable with Zero Ozone Depleting Potential and Zero Global Warming Potential. There is no residue after discharge and thus not a danger to protected equipment. Water Mist Natural, non-toxic and efficient this risk specific agent is a fine spray mist that offers effective protection without the deluge and damage of traditional water based systems.
ARGONITE
ARGONITE is an inert gas that extinguishes fire based on the principle of oxygen depletion. In a closed space almost all fires are extinguished in less than 60 seconds when the oxygen concentration falls below 15%. ARGONITE reduces the oxygen concentration to approximately 12.5%, an acceptable level for human exposure over short periods of time. ARGONITE extinguishes fire by physically removing oxygen from the atmosphere. In occupied areas, people can breathe ARGONITE at extinguishing concentrations without fear. There are no toxicological factors associated with the use of ARGONITE and ARGONITE will not decompose or produce any by-products when exposed to a flame from a fire condition. It is environmentally neutral, having zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) and zero global warming potential (GWP). This alternative is inadequate for your needs due to excessive costs, space constraints and slow extinguishing times. WORLDWIDE APPLICATIONS
Petrochemical Installations Blast Furnace Hydraulic Cellar Electrical Rooms Telecommunications Facilities Pharmaceutical & Medical Facilities Document Records & Storage Areas Electronics and Data Processing Equipment Computer Operations
WATER MIST
The Chemetron Water Mist System features uniquely designed nozzles offering optimum droplet size, flow rates and spray coverage, other features include; Single Fluid Atomization, No moving parts in nozzle for maximum reliability, 350psi operating pressure at nozzle. The benefits of the Water Mist system include: Non-toxicity to human personnel, High rate off efficiency, Manual or Automatic operation, Hazard Specific Discharge Timing sequences, Low Level Water Annunciation, Low Nitrogen Pressure Annunciation. WATER MIST Stand Alone Systems Fine Controlled Spray Short Spray Duration Little water used Vs SPRINKLERS Pumped Water System Coarse/ Crude Spray Long Spray Duration Excessive Water Utilisation
This alternative is inadequate for your needs due to the nature of your fire hazards (Petrochemical), space constraints and damage that will be done to any mechanical or electrcal equipment in the protected area.
WORLDWIDE APPLICATIONS Gas Turbines Machinery Spaces Steam Turbine Generator Bearings
FM 200
FM-200 extinguishes fire via a combination of chemically-based fire inhibition and cooling. It is environmentally acceptable, safe to use with sensitive equipment, fastacting, efficient and effective. Developed as a Halon replacement, FM-200 has been selected by us as the best people-compatible, clean agent fire protection material for vital facilities. Chemetron FM-200 Fire Suppression Systems work hand-in-hand with state-of-theart control and detection components to identify and extinguish fires, long before substantial fire damage can occur (10 seconds). Without expensive control panels or detection systems, a unique system can be designed or an existing system retrofitted to FM-200.
WORLDWIDE APPLICATIONS
Computer Operations Telecommunication Facilities Refineries and Petrochemical Installations Control Rooms
Universities and Museums Record & Storage Facilities Pharmaceutical & Medical Facilities Electronics & Data Processing Equipment
WHY FM 200 IS THE BEST ALTERNATIVE TO HALON 1301
The FM-200 Fire Extinguishant was SPECIFICALLY developed as a replacement for Halon 1301 and like Halon 1301, FM-200: Is delivered as a gas through a network of pipes. Has the same rapid discharge time. Offers an improved safety profile. Leaves you ready to start operations minutes after the fire. Efficiently stores as a liquid requiring minimal floor space. Performs within the same enclosure design as Halon 1301. Requires no expensive renovations to existing rooms.
Depending upon your unique hazard requirements, retrofitting an existing Halon system may require anywhere from minor modifications to installing a fully integrated FM-200 suppression system. Today more than ever, people around the world are concerned with the effects of humankind on our earth. FM-200 systems provide a cost effective solution to replacing ozone-depleting Halon1301 with a fast, safe, and effective fire-fighting agent. This retrofit capability grows more important as governments around the world increasingly ban the sale and use of Halon. www.michaelhammondeng.com
ADVANTAGES OF FM 200 OVER OTHER AGENTS
The FM-200 fire extinguishing agent is suitable for protecting high-value and mission-critical assets against most classifications of fire including; Ordinary combustible materials, such as wood, cloth, paper, rubber, and many plastics. These materials are often referred to as Class A fires. Flammable and combustible liquids and gases such as gasoline, oil, lacquers, paints, mineral spirits, and alcohols. FM-200 extinguishing concentrations for these fuels are specific and unique to each individual product. Energized electrical equipment. FM-200 is non-conductive making it safe for use with live electrical equipment. Current international standards recommend de-energizing high voltage circuits on agent discharge. FM-200 has no Ozone Depletion Potential. Its ODP is zero. FM-200 has been found by leading toxicologists to be safe for use when people are present. Unlike Halon 1301, people can be exposed to normal extinguishing concentrations of FM 200 without any fear of health problems.
FM 200 was designed as replacement for Halon systems, therefore keeping installation costs down, as FM 200 systems can easily be incorporated in existing Halon systems. Fact: no other commercially available fire suppression system works faster to extinguish fires (in times of less than 10 seconds) than an FM-200 systems. In performance tests and real-world applications across the globe, FM-200 fire suppressant has proven its effectiveness: Extinguishes ordinary combustible, electrical, flammable liquid and gas fires Stops fire without causing collateral damage to equipment, data or other valuable items Approved and accepted by governments, health and safety organizations, and performance monitoring agencies around the world A key advantage for the FM-200 extinguishing agent system is the small cylinder storage space requirement. Floor space in critical sites is usually at a premium and, in some applications, such as Refineries, Offshore Oil Platforms, Marine Vessels and Small Electronic Facilities, SPACE, WEIGHT, and STORAGE CAPABILITY IS EXTREMELY LIMITED. FM-200 is an active fire-fighting agent, requiring only a small quantity of agent to effectively stop the fire. Most ordinary combustible fires are quickly extinguished with concentrations of only 7% of the gas, by volume. Additionally, the FM-200 extinguishing agent is stored in the cylinders as a liquid. www.michaelhammondeng.com
This saves substantial storage space. Other gaseous fire suppression solutions require much higher design concentrations, up to 40% by volume. Some agents, such as Argonite, cannot be effectively stored as a liquid. These agents are stored as high pressure compressed gases and can require up to seven times the storage space of an FM-200 system.
UNSEEN DANGERS
FM 200 has no hazardous physio-chemical properties or health effects and it meets all criteria laid down by Chemical (Hazard Information and Packaging) Regulations 1993.
Unlike Halon 1301, FM 200 has no long term physiological effects on the occupants of the protected area, during and after flooding. Occupants who inhale FM 200 will only need to be brought into fresh air, unlike exposure to Halon 1301, which requires special medical attention to ventilate the lungs. Eye contact with FM 200 requires the eyes to be simply rinsed with water for 10 15 minutes, and because there in no chlorine in FM 200 there is no pain associated with exposure to it. A combination of soap and water is all that is needed if FM 200 comes in contact with the skin. The chemical properties of Halon 1301, make exposure to it dangerous if inhaled for prolonged periods occupants will lose consciousness due to asphyxiation (suffocation), experience skin irritations, and severe pain in the eyes.
In tests the acute toxity of Fm 200 has been evaluated and approved by the United States Protection Agency, as a total flooding agent in occupied spaces. FM 200 is clean, it leaves no residue thereby cutting down after fire cleanup costs and keeps down time to minimum. Most materials such as steel, stainless steel, aluminum, brass and other metals as well as plastics, rubber and electronic components are unaffected by exposure to FM 200.
AN FM 200 SUPPRESSION SYSTEM IN ACTION
DETECTION AND SUPPRESSION HARDWARE
Any efficient Fire Detection and Suppression System depends not only on the Extinguishing Agent but also on the right combination of Fire panels, Smoke or Heat Detectors, Fire Sensors and Accessories.
Fire Panel
These are the controls of the system and in essence they are the brains while the agent is the brawn behind the system. The time interval between the start of the fire and the detection of the fire will determine how fast the fire can be extinguished and how much equipment (if any) will be destroyed before the fire is put out. The smaller the time interval the better, that is why we stock only the most effective, minimal error sensors and detectors available in the industry. Alerting personnel in the event of a fire is also important and is a mandatory statute in the industries safety standards, hence the need for Strobes, Sirens and Alarm bells; these as well as strategically placed Manual Extinguishers, Fire Axes and Fluorescent signs are what make up a COMPREHENSIVE FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM.
Accessory: Manual Alarm Pull
Smoke Detector
Heat Sensor
DETECTION AND SUPPRESSION HARDWARE
Even the best fire-fighting agent is ineffective without the right detection package. FM200 fast agent discharge, combined with early fire detection, provides maximum asset protection and limits the production of combustion and decomposition products.
Fire Alarm Control Panels, Digital / Analogue Addresable Panels Ionisation Smoke Detectors Rate of Heat Rise Detectors Optical Smoke Detectors Combustable Gas Detectors Sirens and Strobes Duct Mounting Kits Analogue Fire Sensors Callpoints Alarm Bells www.michaelhammondeng.com Systems Gas Extiguishant
FM 200 INSTALLLATIONS
Assembling all the components together into a workable system optimized for your facility is the work of trained fire protection engineers. In a typical system the extinguishing agent is typically stored in cylinders or spheres. It is delivered to distribution nozzles through a system piping network.
FM 200 Installed by Michael Hammond Eng. at PETRODATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES, Oregun, Lagos State
For an FM 200 to be comprehensively effective a thorough test for leakages known as an ENCLOSURE INTEGRITY TEST must be carried out. It is this that will determine if, when the FM 200 is released, it will either escape through minute holes in the wall, open or cracked windows, gaps in raised floor or false ceiling installations or will perform its function and extinguish the fire within the design time. In the late 1980's enclosure integrity testing became the standard acceptance procedure for approving new clean agent installations in lieu of a discharge test.. NFPA 2001 declares, "a discharge test is generally not recommended " and establishes a complete procedure for non-discharge approval testing in Appendix C of the standard. The enclosure-testing requirement is to locate any significant air leaks that might result in a failure of the enclosure to hold the agent concentration for the required amount of time. One benefit of room integrity testing is the ease of periodic retesting to determine if adverse changes have occurred in the protected space, a common occurrence particularly in electronic and data facilities. Periodic testing can be carried out at your request
FM 200 ENCLOSURE INTEGRITY TEST KIT BEING USED AT CENTRAL BANK, LAGOS. Integrity testing generally involves the use of a door fan and computer to predict the retention time of the enclosure It is only after an ENCLOSURE INTEGRITY TEST that the amount of FM 200 needed to protect an area can truly be determined. Also periodical tests must be carried out to determine whether any changes may have occurred, that would affect the extinguishing capabilities of the FM 200 system. The FM 200 design engineers must be consulted about any renovations about to be made within a protected area, this will enable them to adapt the FM 200 system to suit the needs of the renovated area, after appropriate integrity tests have been carried out.
BASIC FM 200 INSTALLATION
DISCHARGE NOZZLES
DETECTORS/ SENSORS
FIRE CONTROL PANEL LEGEND FM 200 CYLINDERS

ELECTRICAL PIPEWORK FM 200 GAS PIPEWORK
A TYPICAL FIRE DETECTION SYSTEM
SOME OF OUR SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
CLIENT
PETRODATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES MTN LIMITED STARCOM LIMITED STARCOM LIMITED AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL BANK STANBIC MERCHANT BANK CENTRAL BANK ZENITH INTERNATIONAL BANK
No. OF KG S OF FM 200
600 KG 150 KG 70 KG 708 KG 620 KG 400 KG 552 KG 150 KG
LOCATION
MOTORWAYS PLAZA, OREGUN, LAGOS. MATORI MTN CUSTOMER SERVICE CENTRE, ILUPEJU, LAGOS. LSDPC CELL SITE, LAGOS ISLAND. EXCHANGE HOUSE, VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS. AIB HOUSE, VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS. IKOYI, LAGOS. LAGOS ISLAND, LAGOS. VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS.
CONCLUSION
At Michael Hammond Eng. our engineering group will design your system, prepare shop drawings, flow and battery calculations, and provide you with the hard data you need to rest assured in the confidence of a well designed fire protection system that possess the following features; Clean agent Decision criteria Clean Economical & Effective Fast Acting Broad Spectrum of Fire Effectiveness Safe for the Planet Space Efficient Ability to Retrofit Halon Systems Commercially Available Long-term Availability Safe for People
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Michael Hammond Engineering Company Limited

The Strength Behind Every Great Organisation

A WORLD OF FIRE PROTECTION

A PRESENTATION ON FIRE FIGHTING FOR HIGH RISK CRITICAL FACILITIES

Michael Hammond Engineering Company Limited

AN FM 200 SUPPRESSION SYSTEM IN ACTION

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