Protecting Vessels and Crew With Fast, Reliable and Accurate Detection

High hazard vessels such as oil tankers demand best in-class fire protection products where the cargoes being transported are subject to high risk of fire.

Solutions must be easy to implement and stay ahead of the curve. The appearance of flames on a vessel must be quickly detected and accurately pinpointed in order to alert personnel and trigger rapid action to be taken.

Fast Acting

A fire can cause major damage to a vessel leading to extended down times and costly repairs. Fast detection of a fire means action can be taken before extensive damage takes place.

Reliable

The choice of infrared (IR) array and enhanced triple IR solar blind technologies minimise unwanted alarms.

Hazardous Explosive Atmospheres

Our flame detectors are approved for the protection of dust and gas hazards for all area classifications so the same detectors can be used in all areas of a vessel, thereby simplifying the design, installation and servicing processes.

The MZX Infra-Red Flame detector range offers unrivalled performance where hydrocarbon based fires exists. As IR detection is less susceptible to radiation inhibitors than UV, the MZX detecors are able to detect flame through oil mist, smoke and vapour, all of which can be commonly associated with fires involving fuels. They MZX devices are also less prone to false alarms from background radiation sources.

Infra red (IR) sensors are tuned to a bandwidth associated with the radiation emitted from carbon dioxide which emitted during hydrocarbon fires. Single channel detectors are set to a fixed frequency that rely on flame flicker to trigger, whereas triple channel detectors can monitor frequencies above and below the fire threshold, thereby filtering background radiation from non-fire sources. Array based IR detectors use a total of 256 sensors which makes them sensitive yet extremely stable. The array can be configured to ignore hot spots such as exhausts, flues and flame stacks. The detector is IEC61508, (SIL2) approved in addition to a wide variety of additional approvals.

Some of our Flame Detectors incorporate a video camera within the same housing which provides real-time images of the incident.

All of the above detector types are available within the MZX range covering all categories of risks.

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