We offer clean agent fire suppression systems using Novec™ 1230 Fire Protection Fluid. A fluoroketone, it’s environmentally sustainable and fast-acting, reaching the design concentration for total flooding applications in 10 seconds or less and extinguishing fires at the incipient stage. Novec 1230 fluid is a Halon replacement and hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) alternative with a high margin of occupant safety and is not vulnerable to regulatory phasedown or phaseout anywhere in the world.
Novec 1230 fluid has a global warming potential (GWP) of less than one while HFCs typically have a GWP of more than 3000. Novec 1230 fluid has the highest margin of safety for human occupancy among clean agents, including inert gas.
Why use a Fire Protection System with
Novec™ 1230 Fluid:
- Extinguishes a fire in seconds, before it even starts and long before water-based systems or inert systems discharge.
- Helps protect valuable assets including electronics, irreplaceable paper documents, artefacts and archives. Because Novec 1230 fluid is a waterless fire suppression solution, it leaves no residue and is electrically non-conductive.
- Provides the highest margin of safety for human occupancy of any clean agent solution.
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Is not subject to the HFC phasedown under the F-Gas Regulation in Europe or any global regulatory body, including the Montreal Protocol.
- Comes with a global environmental warranty — the Blue Sky℠ Warranty, designed to provide additional peace of mind.
- Is stored as a liquid and discharged as a gas, taking up approximately 80% less floor space compared to inert gas systems.
- Is appropriate for Class A, B and C fire hazards.
How does Novec 1230 fluid work?
Novec 1230 fluid extinguishes a fire before it starts by rapidly removing heat. In a typical total flooding system, the fluid is stored as a liquid in cylinders pressurised with nitrogen. Automatic detection sensors trigger release when the fire is at the incipient stage, extinguishing it in mere seconds.
Novec 1230 fluid evaporates 50 times faster than water. In fact, you could soak a paperback book in a bath of Novec 1230 fluid and within a minute, pick it up and read where you left off.
In this video you’ll see a controlled test of a fire in a simulated data centre. Watch to compare the performance of Novec 1230 fluid to a water sprinkler system.
SAPPHIRE SYSTEMS
Using water as a fire suppressant in areas where electronics operate and irreplaceable, high-value assets are stored, could be as devastating as fire itself. The SAPPHIRE Clean Agent System quickly suppresses fires and protects sensitive equipment without causing harm to people or the environment. The system is especially suited to suppress fires in areas where an electrically non-conductive medium is required, where electronic systems cannot be shut down in an emergency, where clean-up of other agents poses a problem, and in normally occupied areas that demand a non-toxic agent.
The SAPPHIRE system uses 3M Novec 1230 fire protection fluid for total flooding applications. The clear, colourless agent has zero ozone depletion potential, an atmospheric lifetime of just five days, and a global warming potential of 1.0. The SAPPHIRE system suppresses a fire before it can be fully engaged and once the fire is suppressed, Novec 1230 quickly evaporates without harming any valuable assets.
The fluid can be used in total flooding fire suppression applications such as:
- Data storage and processing centres, server rooms, control rooms.
- Telecommunications centres including cellular sites and switching centres.
- Storages containing high-value assets or inflammable materials.
- Libraries, museums, record archives.
Why choose Bryland Fire?
WE PROVIDE FIRE PROTECTION ACROSS THE UK
Trusted by businesses large and small, across the UK and within industry sectors including data centres, leisure, and waste recycling, we have the resources, capabilities and experience to design, install and maintain fire protection systems of virtually any size. Backed with industry accreditations, using tried and trusted quality brands, delivered by our award-winning team of engineers, we can design a solution to safeguard your business and your people.
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