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 NFPA
72 Compliant Fire and Gas Monitoring System
The NFPA 72 compliant HazardWatch™
Integrated Fire & Gas Detection System from General Monitors
sets a new industry standard for highly intelligent safety monitoring
solutions. Its design helps process and plant engineers protect
their operations, equipment and staff from fire and combustible
gases while meeting the world’s most demanding safety standards.
There are many hazardous industries
where the presence of combustible, flammable and toxic gases and vapors
is an every-day potential threat to people and equipment. These types
of facilities, with their mission-critical operating environment,
require advanced safety monitoring systems that provide hazard detection
and mitigation with both high reliability and high availability.
To help prevent accidents, the National
Fire Protection Association (NFPA) developed its NFPA 72 standard,
which is an ANSI approved document. It sets standards for fire alarm
components and systems, including initiation devices like smoke and
flame detectors, audible and visible alarms and monitoring systems.
This standard covers systems design, equipment application, installation,
location, performance and maintenance.
With decades of experience in safety monitoring, General Monitors
offers a broad array of fire and gas monitoring systems and components
including modular flame and gas detectors that are third party certified
to a variety of world safety standards. The requirements of NFPA
that apply to our products include:
NFPA compliant alarm monitoring and
display using a touch screen
color graphic user interface
Field
device monitoring for open circuit, short-to-ground and wire-to-wire
short circuit
Power supply monitoring
Battery back-up of system power requirements
Ground fault detection
HazardWatch Integrated Fire &
Gas Detection System
Offering intelligence, flexibility and reliability, the HazardWatch
System’s controller, hardware configuration and software have
been tested and certified by Factory Mutual to verify NFPA 72 compliance.
The scope of the FM approval includes certification of HazardWatch
as a local protective fire alarm panel and gas controller, and releasing
control panel. FM certification extends to the fault tolerant digital
communication network (HazardNet) and the Proprietary Central Station
capable of monitoring status of up to 13 HazardWatch local panels.
HazardWatch is an innovative, modular system that combines highly
reliable Allen-Bradley ControlLogix™ programmable logic controller
(PLC) technology with General Monitors’
advanced gas and flame field devices and a variety of third party
smoke detectors, thermal detectors, and audible and visual alarm devices.
It is easily scalable, making it suitable for small systems to large
plant-wide applications. Up to 13 local gas and fire alarm panels
can operate over a redundant media, fault tolerant network of up to
25 kilometers in length. The system’s local and network communication
equipment utilizes Allen-Bradley’s ControlNet™, a widely
used high-speed, industrially hardened control and communication protocol.
The HazardWatch System features a standalone local fire and gas alarm
panel with a color touch screen with an easy-to-use, human-machine
interface (HMI). Optional HazardWatch panels can be networked using
HazardNet to an FM approved HazardView Central Station Computer for
central station monitoring. The system’s optional HazardNet
dual media (coaxial cable or fiber optic) fault tolerant communications
network supports communication between the local HazardWatch gas and
flame panels and optional HazardView HMI. The HazardView Central Station
computer is equipped with an FM approved, AC powered UPS in accordance
with the requirements of NFPA 72.
HazardWatch supports MODBUS, Ethernet or ControlNet communication
for interfacing with DCS or ESD systems. Integration with third party
devices such as horns, beacons, smoke detectors and suppression systems
is flexible, simple and reliable. HazardWatch comes complete with
a power supply and battery back-up system that complies with NFPA
72 standards.
HazardWatch is ideal for a broad range of monitoring applications
in demanding industries. It is designed for use in oil/gas production,
petrochemical refining, LNG & LPG plants and pipelines, electric
power generation, flammable material warehouse and storage facilities,
automotive plants and any industry where fire or hydrocarbon vapors
are a potential threat.
Combining the expertise of proven industry leaders in safety and automation,
HazardWatch is a powerful and flexible safety solution. You can count
on HazardWatch to ensure the safety of your plant, equipment and personnel.
Click
here for more information on the HazardWatch System.
Click
here for more information about NFPA72.
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