Recycling Facilities
Mitigate damage through reliable fire detection with minimal risk for false alarms
Statistics show that a recycling plant faces a fire incident in average every second year. Fire protection consequently is a critical element in the operation of a recycling plant. A fire protection scheme includes that staff is thoroughly trained and stays alert to react in a professional manner to a fire alarm. False alarms undermine the alertness of the staff, which in turn can lead to false reactions in case of a real fire. False alarms and its consequences are therefore a particular risk that results from poor fire protection design and/or inadequate fire detection products and must be addressed in the fire protection design.
Causes of fires in recycling facilities
- Spontaneous ignition of waste material
- Smouldering waste material delivered to the stock
- Cutting or shearing containers, in particular when they contain compressed flammable gases
- Hot works such as cutting, welding and soldering
- Overheating and/or flying sparks resulting from malfunctions in machinery (conveyor belts, shredders, vehicles, etc.)
- Bad housekeeping (smoking, maintenance of equipment, etc.)
Challenges for reliable fire detection in recycling facilities
- Highly dynamic environment with sudden changes of the dust level (loading unloading of trucks)
- Large, partly open space
- High temperature variation
- High variation in airflow
- Diesel exhaust fumes
- Build-up of foggy clouds at ambient temperatures below 10°C
- Birds and other flying objects (plastic bags, wrappings, packaging, etc.)
Key benefits of reliable fire detection solutions for recycling facilities
- False alarms are reduced to an absolute minimum
- Maintenance intervals are at an acceptable frequency
- Fires are detected at an early stage
- The loss prevention is at a maximum and the risk for business interruption at a minimum
- The cost for maintenance is commensurate
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SecuriFire 500 | (781 KB)
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FCP 500 | (616 KB)
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