This gallery contains all the videos on our website, from product demonstrations through to fascinating live fire tests. Whether you’re wanting to find out about vehicle fire suppression systems or fire alarm solutions, you’re sure to find something to enjoy in this gallery!
Video Smoke Detection is ideal for the protection of high-roofed logistics depots, where the extreme elevation of the ceiling heights means that roof-mounted fire detection systems are unsuitable.
At roof heights above 7-10 metres, ceiling mounted smoke detection such as point type, beam or aspirating detectors may be unsuitable. This is due to a phenomenon called ‘Stratification’, which is where the smoke hits a layer of warmer air in the roof void which prevents it from rising further. Instead, the smoke just flattens out on this thermal layer, never reaching the ceiling mounted detectors.
Video smoke detection is able to ‘see’ the smoke at its source, without the time lag spent waiting for the rising smoke to (hopefully) activate a high level detection system.
Additionally, video smoke detection enables you to use the CCTV footage to immediately identify and verify a detected risk – saving you valuable seconds in your response to a fire alarm.
Blazequel are UK & Ireland agents for the Araani Smokecatcher system.
Contact Blazequel, specialists in fire detection systems to discuss your application in more detail, or visit our video smoke detection page for further information.
This video shows Smokecatcher Video Smoke Detection detecting a simulated fire at a waste recycling facility, demonstrating the incredible speed of detection which can be achieved!
This building’s roof is almost 20 meters high! If a ceiling-mounted fire detection system was in use, it could take several minutes for the smoke to reach the roof, by which time it could be too late.
If flame detection was used, it would detect nothing at this stage of a fire. Flame detectors will only detect when the incident has developed into a real fire, by which time it may be too late.
Video Smoke Detection provides the fastest detection speed, the most reliable false-alarm resistance and the best resistance to harsh operating conditions.
Contact Blazequel, specialists in fire detection systems to discuss your application in more detail, or visit our video smoke detection page for further information.
This video shows a real fire incident which was detected at a waste recycling facility by video smoke detection, outside of the facilities operational hours.
Remarkably, the fire detected wasn’t even in the same building as the video smoke detection (VSD), but was in an adjoining area. The area where the fire started was protected by flame detectors, but these did not activate.
The key difference between VSD and Flame detection is that a flame detector will not detect smoke. Until the fire has developed into a flaming incident, a flame detector will not detect it, whereas video smoke detection will detect smoke almost immediately.
As a smoky, smoldering pre-combustion stage is typical of waste recycling fires, it is very important to ensure that your fire detection systems are really suitable for your risk areas, and the type of material stored onsite.
Additional benefits of video smoke detection include the ability to immediately verify the detected risk by viewing the CCTV footage, and the ability of VSD to survive in harsh operating conditions where most smoke detection is unsuitable.
Contact Blazequel, specialists in fire detection systems to discuss your application in more detail, or visit our video smoke detection page for further information.
This shows a real-life incident where unfortunately the clients site burned down. Smokecatcher was working properly and detected the fire as shown – giving 4 hours of pre-warning. Unfortunately for the client their fire alarm monitoring wasn’t operating and by the time the alarm was raised externally it was too late.
This video demonstrates the importance of catching these fires in the ‘smoking’ stage. By the time spontaneous combustion occurs it is really too late – from becoming a flaming fire it took just 4 minutes for the fire to reach the camera. Flame detectors would only detect the incident at this flaming stage.
Contact Blazequel, specialists in fire detection systems to discuss your application in more detail, or visit our video smoke detection page for further information.
Christmas tree fire destroys a living room in under a minute.
Stay safe this season – keep ignition sources away from your Christmas tree, and make sure you’ve always got a clear escape route.
A video by direct.gov.uk/firekills
Trees & Decorations Fire Safety Tips:
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Thermal Imaging allows you to spot a fire risk, long before its even started to emit smoke or flames.
This is an invaluable feature for high risk industries, such as bulk storage of flammable materials such as coal or biomass, and the waste recycling industry where self-heating and spontaneous combustion is a ever-present danger.
Through proactive monitoring of the temperature of your material stockpiles, thermal imaging will allow you to identify excessive temperature hotspots, or a sudden rate of risk in temperature which could indicate a potential fire risk. This allows you to take the necessary action to deal with the emerging risk before it develops into a fire.
Clever algorithms and technology built into the software will allow it to identify between hotspots caused by operational activity (such as plant machinery with hot exhaust manifolds) and the hotspots caused by a genuine fire hazard.
That’s not the only application for our thermal imaging camera range either. Our sophisticated solution can be used for process control monitoring on cement kilns, steel production and other quality control applications.
If your thermal imaging system detects a fire, it can raise multiple levels of pre-alarm, and raise the risk alarm or activate a fire suppression or water cannon system to engage the identified risk immediately.
Please contact us on sales@blazequel.com, or call 01234 357357 for more information!
When a fire starts in the cooker hood a commercial or industrial kitchen, you need to act with lightning speed. Otherwise, you could find the fire not just spreading within the kitchen, but leaping up into your extract ducting and spreading throughout the entire building within just minutes.
Additionally, you need to remember that a kitchen fire can be the most dangerous fire of all. If you’re dealing with a burning pan of oil or a fryer fire, you need to ensure you fight it with the correct extinguishing agent. Using water will create a potentially lethal fireball.
When you install a Kitchen Fire Suppression System, you know that you’ve taken action to protect your property and your colleagues. With both automatic and manual release options, the suppression system will detect a fire then discharge to protect the cooker hood, the primary extract ducting and extinguish the fire on the cooker/ovens below.
PAFSS KitchenGuard is an innovative, reliable and cost effective fire suppression solution for these applications.
Contact Blazequel today to find out more.
The PAFSS (Pneumatically Actuated Fire Suppression System) is designed for the protection of small enclosures and defined risk areas. From electrical cabinets and servers, through to light machinery it is an ideal and cost effective way to protect your operations-critical asset.
Available extinguishing agents include:
Contact Blazequel today to discuss your requirements and find out how we can help protect your companies most operations-critical assets.
Aerosol fire suppression is a unique airborne suppression agent, which transforms from a solid compound into an airborne extinguishing agent with extinguishing properties which are almost identical to a gaseous suppression system.
The chemical reaction transforms the aerosol compound into millions of tiny aerosol extinguishing particles of just 1-2 microns in size (a human hair is typically 40-60 microns wide). These tiny particles remain in suspension in the air, and fuse onto the flammable fire molecules (free radicals) – meaning they cannot burn. This breaks the feedback loop of fire, by preventing the flames from occurring.
Additionally, the enormous surface area which is created by so many tiny aerosol extinguishing particles helps to absorb the heat of the fire, providing a secondary fire fighting action by helping to prevent flashover.
Aerosol extinguishing agent is emitted from the Aerosol Generator in the form of a white vapour. This can leave a fine dusty residue after discharge, which should be blown away. Tests have shown that this is non-corrosive, but nevertheless it is a side effect which should be considered when you are looking for a suppression agent for server areas and clean rooms.
One of the biggest benefits of Aerosol Fire Suppression is that it doesn’t require an air-tight space to operate (unlike gaseous extinguishing agents) and that it doesn’t use any stored pressure to discharge. It is not harmful to humans, but should not be discharged into an occupied area as it could obscure visibility and hinder finding the escape routes.
The Water Mist Fire Extinguisher is a revolution in portable fire fighting. It’s able to fight fires in flammable solids (Class A fires), flammable liquids (Class B fires), fires involving electrical equipment (Class E fires) and cooking fat (Class F fires).
Due to this remarkable list of fire categories, the Water Mist fire extinguisher is the only extinguisher you’ll ever need. It can remove the requirement for having multiple different kinds of extinguisher in your workplace.
It’s also been proven at extinguishing gas fires (Class C) but there isn’t a safety listing for this category for safety reasons. If you have a Class C fire, just evacuate and don’t risk trying to tackle it!
Using pure water, the Water Mist fire extinguisher leaves none of the residue commonly associated with fire extinguishers.
It extinguishes the fire by breaking the water into a fog of tiny droplets. The enormous surface area created by this fog of water droplets swiftly absorbs the heat away from the fire – this breaks the ‘feedback loop’ of the fire.
Simultaneously, the water fog, and the resulting steam as the water evaporates displaces the oxygen from around the fire, smothering the flames by starving them of oxygen.
For more information, visit our Water Mist Fire Extinguisher page or call us today on 01234 357357 to discuss this further!
This video show a water mist fire suppression system installed on a shredder at a waste recycling facility. In the event of a fire, the system will activate within milliseconds to extinguish the risk and ensure that the fire isn’t carried into the high-value MRF area.
Automatic fire suppression on high risk waste recycling processes and extract systems, can protect your facility from a devastating fire and the downtime and high insurance premiums that inevitably result from a fire incident.
Video Fire Detection is the ideal solution for protecting high risk areas and complex environments where conventional fire suppression systems are not suitable. Outdoor areas, high level buildings and dusty environments are all risk types that VFD takes in its stride. Contact us today to discuss your video fire detection requirements.
This impressive video shows the stark parallels between the extinguishing ability of water mist and Forrex Foam, as used in the DAFO Forrex system. Whereas the water mists only extinguishing action is to try to smother the fire through oxygen starvation, the foam agent is able to smother the fuel with a layer of environmentally friendly foam – cutting off the flames and preventing re-ignition.
The DAFO Forrex system has been designed to reliably protect vehicles and machinery working in some of the toughest environments on the planet.
In this video you’ll see just how the DAFO Forrex system operates to detect and extinguish a fire, protecting the vehicle, it’s operator and the surrounding environment.
DAFO Forrex is the best choice for protecting any form of plant machinery. Thanks to the superior extinguishing power of the unique wet-chem agent it is particularly suitable for forestry and waste recycling applications where the accumulation of flammable materials in the engine bay heightens the risk of a fire and re-ignition.
Contact us today to find out more about the DAFO Forrex Fire Suppression System.
This video shows the DAFO Forrex system in action, on a live fire test at SP Labs!
SP (Sweden) are the world leaders in quality testing for vehicle fire suppression systems. In this test, the DAFO Forrex system totally extinguishes a high fire-load test which includes pool fires of flammable liquids, assorted flammable solid materials and hydraulic oil spray fires. This dangerous cocktail of mixed fire types is assisted with the high airflow which complicates the extinguishing process.
No need to worry – the DAFO Forrex system does the job as usual, proving once again that it is the best choice for any engine bay fire risk!
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