Usable Fire Protection Systems and Solutions for Garage

 SUMMARY

With the development of the world’s economy, more and more cars come into families, the small size of cars is increasing every day in urban transportation, now the urban car parking problem is prominent, correspondingly more and more big garages were built or under build and increasing every day.

Especially with the development of the real estate industry, the matching requirements between large underground garages and newly built buildings are becoming increasingly high.

The garage is parked with lots of small vehicles and cars, and people also come and go in the garage, So a fire protection system is required and a fire protection solution can not be able to ignored.

SOURCES OF FIRE RISK IN THE GARAGE

• The fuel used for the car is normally gasoline and natural gas, they are combustible, and lubricating oil is also combustible, if they leak then the consequence is out of image.
• The car structure also has its electrical circuit, such as a firing system and battery, when they are abnormal or damaged then under a risk of fire.
• Decoration Material in the car is normally flammable and combustible material, will easily catch fire.
• Now many cars have electric power control windows, electric heated seats, and electric doors, these equipment’s electrical insulating material mostly is combustible.
• Car exhaust includes carbon monoxide leaked gasoline, and leaked natural gas, these substances exist in non-ventilated places will make people poisoned, and easily cause fire.

CHARACTERISTIC OF THE GARAGE FIRE

• Most of the car garages are underground, so the fire rescue job is hard to do.
• When the fire in the garage happens, it will spread rapidly, and will not be easy to put out.
• Have risk of explosion.
• Easy to make poisoning, hard to do emergency evacuation.

FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM APPLY IN THE GARAGE

Based on the description of garage fire risks and the characteristics above, we can suggest several fire protection systems for the garage environments.

• Suggest One: Aerosol System, Recommend the Wall-Mounted Aerosol or Mini Aerosol Fire Extinguishing Device for a small space in the gallery, accompanied by the fire alarm system.
• Suggest Two: ABC Super-Fine Dry Chemical System, recommends a pressurized or non-pressurized dry chemical powder fire extinguishing system, together with a fire alarm system.
• Suggestion Three: Gaseous Suppression System including hfc-227ea, co2, and ig541 systems, for bigger space in the garage, matching with fire alarms.
• Suggestion Four: Foam System for big space in a garage environment and with fire alarm systems install together.
• Suggestion Five: Water-mist System for big space total flooding, with fire alarms together.

The installation environment of the garage, local weather, and other factors determine which type of fire protection system we need to install.

SPECIAL DECLARATION

• Because of the environment of the garage, the smoke detector and VESDA system are not suitable for installation in the garage, instead should install heat detectors, should be placed in every corner of the garage.
• As the car garage is an enclosed space, many combustible gas is over there, so also need to design a Gas Detector there.
• Other fire alarm systems, fire emergency lighting systems, and evacuation devices are also necessary to install in the garage.
• This article is for an underground garage or room garage, not described for an outdoor garage.

UNDERGROUND GARAGE

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