Fire Fighting for Tunnels
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Fire Fighting for Tunnels Save Lives Reduce Damage High-pressure water mist fire protection www.ultrafog.com

DELIVERING FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES FOR TUNNELS

Ultra Fog is an international brand founded in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company specializes in the development, design and application of high-pressure water mist sprinkler systems. This high-performance product line results from a continuous program of research and development, extensive certification and type approvals, and quality controlled manufacturing. Ultra Fog’s global reach, aftersales service and maintenance provision ensures that customers benefit from lifelong product assurance and protection. Tunnels are an essential part of travel infrastructure but possessing a dangerous...

Product overview & services WATER TANK Plastic or other material tank custom made Automatic refill With heater for cold environment Outlet pressure: 100 – 140 bar Flow range: 50 – 115 litres/min/high pressure pump Power consumption: 22 – 30kw/high pressure pump Control system with PLC, fire alarm system, power supply for feeder pumps etc External connections for alarm and control cabinets and operating panels through serial or TCP/IP communication Flexible designed pump station with internal buffer tanks to hold the high pressure pumps Pump unit can be equipped with high pressure pumps...

NOZZLE HEADS • • • • • • Patented nozzle design - inline construction Droplet size 30 – 200 µm Suitable for very small installation space Specially designed nozzle arrangement for tunnel applications High quality design, made of stainless steel High resistance nozzles WALL HYDRANT • • • • • Maximum pressure: 140 bar Hose reel with up to 60 m high pressure hose Multifunctional water mist gun 20l/min Optional: piercing tool for water mist gun Activation via pressure drop or electric signal (e.g. limit switch) CFD - supported calculation models Pool fires of up to 100 m2 and solid fires...

Fire tests Ultra Fog’s tunnel systems are ultra reliable. Having built upon 30 years’ of experience of the design and manufacture of water mist systems for the marine, land and offshore markets, Ultra Fog has developed a water mist system specifically to address the technical challenges posed by fires within tunnels. [This has been validated with full-scale fire tests at the + TST tunnel test facility, during which 30MW, 50MW and 100MW fires were tested.] Furthermore, all the future testing will be performed at our brand new fire laboratory whose features are unique in the world.Ultra Fog’s...

Timeline of 30 MW fire test Ultra Fog tunnel systems are designed to be as simple as possible – to ensure reliability, ease of maintenance, and to minimise the costs associated with the installation and throughlife maintenance. Investment in an Ultra Fog tunnel system is primarily an investment in life safety, but secondary benefits include the protection of physical assets, lower insurance premiums, faster clean-up and repair after a fire; and less downtime, closure, and disruption. Throughout the tests, the tunnel’s ventilation system ran continuously to create an airspeed. In real-world...

Fire Testing, Type Approvals and compliance: Ultra Fog’s Water Mist System has been fire tested by the Swedish Test Laboratory (SP), SINTEF - Norway and Danish Fire Laboratory (DFL), and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Baltic Fire Laboratory (BFL). FM5560 Data Processing Equipment Rooms/Halls (Appendix M and N) FM5560 Non-Storage Occupancies, HC-1, Part 4 EN14972 FM5560 Turbine and Machinery in Enclosures, Part 14 and 15 EN14972 Part 3 EN14972 OH1 Part 10 EN14972 Annex A OH4 Part 2 EN14972 Annex A OH3 Part 5 EN14972 Annex A OH2 Part 7 & 17 EN14972 Annex A, Residential Water Mist...