Good morning everybody! We're here with Victaulic
We're at the NFPA 2013 show. I'm here with Ian MacInnis who's
agreed to take a few minutes and show us around the
vortex 500 system. so, Ian
really quickly could you give us a quick overview of what the vortex 500 system
and how it works
absolute. I'll take a step back
and explain what the actual Vortex system is
Victaulic Vortex system is the first
hybrid suppression system designed in the world. We're using nitrogen
and water in very low pressures creating
a fog rather than a mist
We're reducing the oxygen levels in the room
to about 14 - 14.5% depending on the application, which is too low for a fire to survive.
We're also using the water for cooling.
The water also helps aid moving the nitrogen around
the room to create wind. The Victaulic Vortex 500 sytem
is a pre-engineered system for
data center applications, motor control centers,
small server rooms
covering for about 600 to 4500 cubic feet at sea level. The reason I say at sea level
similar to a gas system, the higher you are in altitude
the less gas
so with this system, we're using 0.26 gallons per minute emitters
over a 3 minute discharge
we're only using about a gallon and a half of water in the entire discharge
shown right here with a gallon and a half of water tank.
water, can be just straight potable water, doesn't have to be
Certain applications you can use whatever water you want.
very easy
to refill the water tank
lifting up on this lever here to fill it up
very very simple
inside our panel we house
Victaulic needle valve
This is our regulating valve which pushes pressure down to 3000 psi
in the cylinders down to 2500 psi through the piping
What other benefit of this is we can use low pressure
standard carbon steel piping, Victaulic groove couplings
The water pressure
is actually pushed through
by diverting a little bit of the nitrogen
into that water tank, I think then be very low-pressure as well
about 25 psi through the piping, 5
psi of water
We've come up with a system that doesn't create any arching for any electrical components.
very very small sub-10 micron size water droplets
that we're creating in the system.
Outside of that, we have our pressure transducers in here that we're not reading
enough pressure at the emitter and actually we'll develop to open a bit more
lets a little bit more pressure so we're never worried about not having enough
pressure creating too large of a water droplet
we'll always going to be creating sub-10 micron sized droplets.
The sequencing of the system, standard detection system,
heat, smoke, infra-red whatever types of protection you need
will fire the system through a releasing panel
we'll receive a 24 volt DC signal into our
panel which fires the system
nitrogen first, nitrogen with
discharge first,
whether you receive
a signal from the pressure switch saying that 25 psi is flowing
then we'll all add water to the system
you don't want to have any dripping or puddle
The exact opposite sequence works for the shut down
in the system, cylinders are running low
reads less than 25 psi of
nitrogen flowing, it'll shut the water valve
open the drain valve and just let nitrogen
blow the rest of the water out. so we're going to have a full nitrogen
discharge at the end
We've found this to be a very effective for these applications
it's a plug and play system, to 3
or 4 hour install. Very simple and very cost effective.
well thank you very much Ian, that's very helpful it's a great overview of the system
will just go ahead and I invite anybody to stop by if you'd like to learn a bit
more about the Vortex 500 system
come find us at an NFPA 2013 booth 253
thank you Ian, we appreciate your help