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AIRPORT TERMINALS
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LINEAR HEAT DETECTION has a proven record of successful installation,operation and detection of overheat or fire conditions within a number of International Airport Terminals.
With multi-millions of people passing through Terminals at an International Airport during any one year, the risk of fire and with it the potential for loss of human life in large numbers should be evident to all those responsible for maintaining both the uninterrupted daily operation of the airport and airlines and for the protection of those that keep them in business - the airlinepassenger. Disruption to business as a result of a fire goes far beyond the boundaries of the Airport where the fire has occured. The potential effect on the business can be global - with resulting delays in flight departures and arrivals putting aircraft in the wrong part of the world at the wrong time! Loss of passenger confidence in the safety of an airport or airline could generate a major negative affect on the all important Corporate profit levels for decades to come.
Whilst each Industrial sector may present its own unique set of risk considerations to those designing and specifying detectors that will provide the most effective FIRE PROTECTION system, International Airport Terminals bring together many of these individual sectors under one roof: Namely- Complex Electrical Power Distribution Systems, Retail Outlets, Metro Systems, Restaurants, Storage Warehouses, Internal passenger and baggage transit systems.
The more "traditional" applications for LINEAR HEAT DETECTION involve dirty,dusty,damp and corrosive risk environments and/ or areas of limited access and surveillance. Within Airport Terminals many such conditions apply, but it is the recognition of this detection concept as a device that can be installed at the exact point of risk -with the potential for monitoring and signalling abnormal overheat temperatures before combustion levels are reached -that has resulted in its installation in many areas that would not fall within that "traditional" category.
POWER CABLE PROTECTION - including the SERVICE TUNNEL areas beneath the Terminal building
ELECTRICAL CUPBOARDS
METRO STATION PLATFORMS & TUNNELS
ESCALATORS
PASSENGER CONVEYORS
BAGGAGE CONVEYORS
LIFT/ ELEVATOR SHAFT & MOTOR
VENTILATION / EXTRACTION DUCT PROTECTION
FALSE CEILING CABLE INSTALLATION PROTECTION
STORAGE WAREHOUSES
AIRCRAFT HANGARS
RESTAURANT COOKER HOODS
The above list is representative rather than exhaustive of applications for LINEAR HEAT DETECTION within Airport Terminals!
Having decided on the specification of Linear Heat for any number of the above risk areas, the next consideration is which of the systems available will provide the end user with maximum protection for minimum cost with minimum maintenance requirements. As repeatedly mentioned on previous documents, the initial overheat or incipient fire condition is always going to be a very localised event. Therefore, a system whose performance ( alarm temperature level and/or response time) which is NOT related to a large percentage of the installed length being exposed to the fire/overheat condition has to be the preferred system? DIGITAL LINEAR HEAT DETECTION provides a pre-specified FIXED alarm temperature - regardless of whether 1% or 100% of installed length is exposed.
Use of the digital systems optional interface unit will also provide visual indication of the exact alarm location . Of particular advantage in overheat detection situations - where no visible flame exists. (For detailed product information -please visit LINEAR HEAT DETECTION PRODUCTS section of our website - products_proline_digital ) or contact PROLINE PROTECTION SYSTEMS Ltd @
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