In 30% of cases, the cause of a fire in switchboards is a malfunction associated with electrical wiring. Faults may be due to poor connection, improper selection of circuit breakers and switches, old wiring or overloads. It is very important to identify weak points in order to prevent fire. A natural indicator of faulty wiring is its heat. The new FIPRES (Fire Prevention System) by Streamer works on the basis of this principle.
The consequences of these failures entail emergency situations within power grids. They can lead to large power outages for consumers, accidents at production facilities and offices. The use of the Thermolabels system will provide continuous monitoring of electrical equipment without having to turn it down This will significantly increase the stability of the energy systems as a whole and contribute to saving expensive equipment and people's lives.
ADVANTAGES OF THERMOLABELS
Reduction of costs that are spent on expensive thermo imaging check-ups, lower number of maintenance personnel;
Non-stop 24/7 monitoring without time gaps between standard periodical examination, including times of maximum work load;
Possibility of checking equipment that is structurally unsuitable for thermal imaging;
It is not necessary to power-off the equipment to perform the check-up.
Thermolabels do not require power supply and are immune to electromagnetic interference |
Ability to find fault location with high accuracy
HOW DOES IT WORK
Remote Fire Prevention Thermolabels (rFPTs) are installed at the contact connection points, on electrical wires or some parts of electrical equipment which are potentially prone to overheating. When heated to activation temperature, a signal gas is emitted from the rFPT and is detected by Fire Prevention Alarm (FPA). Stickers can be yellow, green, red and blue. In one set, all stickers are the same color.
Fire Prevention Alarm (FPA) is designed to detect the threshold concentration of the signal gas in the protected object and to transmit the alarm signal. FPA has a LED indicator for operating mode (READY, ALARM, ERROR) and LED for indicating communication with the FPC.
FPA can be used with FPC, as well as independently (in this case an alarm signal can be obtained from a discrete output of the "dry contact" type). FPA transmits alarm signal to FPC via RS 485 and to circuit breacker via a dry contact output to turns off power supply.
Fire Prevention Concentrator (FPC) is a part of the FIPRES system for monitoring the status of FPA, for displaying and recording events and transfer information to the workstation (both local and remote). FPC has a 4-line LCD display with backlight, status indicators, a three-button keyboard for viewing the event log.