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14.08.2012  |  12330x
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GreCon fire protection concept sees to safe beet chip drying at Nordzucker

When drying beet chips, a by-product of the sugar production that is popular as animal feed, fire can easily occur in the dryer drums and the downstream transport ducts. Due to very high drying temperatures of about 600 degrees, glowing particles can occur even in the area of humid chips. If these glowing particles reach the dried material at the dryer outlet, they can result in big glowing embers. If ignition sources reach the downstream transport or exhaust ducts, fire can spread out in large parts of the dry chip processing and destroy, at worst, complete production plants.
Although spark detection and temperature monitoring have been standard in these plant areas for many years, an automatic extinguishment has, however, been missing in the entire industry. This insufficient safety equipment has been a very unsatisfactory situation for Europe`s second largest sugar manufacturer, Nordzucker AG, for a long time and led to cases of damage and production interruptions causing high costs again and again during the beet campaign that lasts for only three months.
Against the background of a fire, worth millions, in the Nordzucker factory in Nordstemmen at the beginning of the beet campaign in 2010 and the resulting announcement of the fire insurance company to increase the contribution by five times, the Nordzucker group finally felt obliged to equip all drying facilities in the group with automatic extinguishing systems, including additional spark detectors. Time, kind and extent of the necessary extinguishing measures should no longer be dependent on the assessment and decision of the operator, but be carried out automatically and specifically adapted to the danger potential.

The high demands on an adequate technical solution led the sugar manufacturer directly to GreCon, who has been specialising in spark detection and extinguishment systems and industrial preventive fire protection for more than 35 years. With their experiences of many years, GreCon has detailed knowledge to be able to convert the processes in the drying of sugar beet chips into a suitable fire protection solution. To be able to offer the special deluge systems (high water capacity at high ambient temperatures) required in the dryer area in the required quality from one supplier, GreCon sought the cooperation with the just as renowned fire protection system manufacturer, Calanbau. Concentrated expertise that also convinced Nordzucker.

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