Fire Supression Systems
The first line of defense against fire in a commercial kitchen is the fire protection system installed in the exhaust hood. Accurex has a variety of factory pre-piped fire protection systems available from the two leading manufacturers, Amerex® and Ansul®. Accurex’s fire suppression systems fall under these three categories: Appliance Specific; Full Flood/Overlapping and Dual Agent. All systems use a wet chemical to suppress fire and are a automatic, pre-engineered systems, designed to protect ventilating equipment including hoods, ducts, plenums, filters and cooking equipment.
Wet Chemical
- Wet chemical fire suppression systems use a potassium based chemical suppressing agent
- The agent is discharged over the entire cooking battery and reacts with hot grease to form a blanket of foam in a process called saponification that seals the hazard depriving the fire of oxygen
- Once activated, the system discharges the wet chemical through all nozzles simultaneously.
Dual Agent
- Dual agent fire suppression systems uses both wet chemical and water to suppress the fire
- Similar to the other systems, a wet chemical agent is used to blanket the fire with foam followed by water to cool the hazard and rejuvenate the foam blanket
- By cooling the area the chance of a re-flash is reduced.
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