Ateco - External Floating Roof Tank Rim Seal Protection
Rim seal fires account for the majority of fires on external floating roof tanks and for this reason Ateco has developed a fully automated, fast acting, vapour detection, foam discharge based fire extinguishing system. The Ateco Rim Seal Protection System is actually a fire fighting package of integrated fire detection and fire suppression equipment. A fixed number of foam storage vessels are located on the floating roof each containing the extinguishing agent which is commonly a fluoromethane compound. Ateco design and can supply the complete rim seal protection system including all necessary pipework and control instrumentation.
Bladder Tanks are the essential component equipment in a balanced pressurized foam proportioning system which is essentially the introduction of foam concentrate into a flowing water system. They do not require external power other than pressurized water and are designed and manufacture as a complete skid mounted unit to meet the requirements of NFPA 11.
The Ateco foam based Rim Seal Fire Detection and Fighting System is intended to prevent a rim seal fire outbreak
from developing by early detection and automatic activation of a fire extinguishing agent.
- Fire detection elements detect a rise in temperature in the rim gap this triggers an alarm in the fire alarm panel enabling the foam
- modules to discharge foam via a piping system connecting through the secondary seal compression plates directly into the rim gap
- Completely automated system
- Can be designed for any diameter of floating roof tank as well as various other applications where volatile hydrocarbon liquid is
- stored
- Virtually maintenance free
- Stainless steel foam modules and piping
- Mostly prefabricated components ready for final installation
- Can be used with most types of secondary seal