mining vehicle fire suppression system


Mining vehicle fire suppression system

As a representative of intelligent fire-fighting equipment for mining vehicles in coal mines and other mining operations, the automatic fire extinguishing system for mine cars is laying a solid safety foundation for both open-pit and underground mine cars with its innovative capabilities. The following is a detailed introduction:

System Overview

The automatic fire extinguishing system for mine cars mainly consists of heat detectors, fire extinguishing agent cylinders, sprinkler heads, agent pipelines, and early warning devices. Heat detectors are installed in key areas of the mine car, such as the engine compartment, fuel tank, and electrical equipment, to monitor early signs of fire in real time. The fire extinguishing agent cylinders store the fire extinguishing agent, the sprinkler heads spray the agent evenly to the fire source, the agent pipelines transport the agent, and the early warning device sounds an alarm when a fire is detected.

Automatic Fire Suppression Systems for Mining Equipment

Innovative Technologies

1. Early Warning Technology: The system monitors fire hazards in real time through sensors deployed in key areas of the mining truck. For example, increasing the density of detectors in critical areas such as the engine compartment and electrical systems ensures rapid and effective fire suppression, buying valuable time for firefighting efforts.

2. Proactive Response Capability: Once a fire is confirmed, the system quickly activates the fire suppression system, accurately spraying the extinguishing agent to the source of the fire. The choice of extinguishing agent is typically determined based on the type of fire and the operating environment of the mining truck. For example, perfluorohexanone, which is non-conductive, is often used as the extinguishing agent for electrical equipment fires, while water-based extinguishing agents that can quickly interrupt the combustion chain are used for fires caused by fuel leaks.

3. Customized Design: The system is customized according to the actual operating environment and characteristics of the mining truck, with a reasonable layout of detectors and fire suppression devices. For example, for new energy mining trucks, the system will increase monitoring of critical areas such as power lines to address their complex fire risks.

4. Purely Mechanical, Electric-Free Design: The underground coal mine car system adopts a purely mechanical, electric-free operation to ensure stable operation in harsh environments and underground coal mines. This design avoids the impact of power supply instability on system performance and improves system reliability.

Automatic Fire Suppression Systems for Mining Equipment

Automatic Fire Suppression Systems for Mining Equipment


Application Scenarios and Advantages

1. Open-Pit Mining Trucks

Real-time Monitoring and Early Warning:
The system continuously monitors key areas such as the engine compartment and fuel tank for temperature, smoke, and other parameters. When any anomaly is detected, it immediately triggers an early warning to alert operators of potential fire hazards.

Rapid Response and Fire Suppression:
Once a fire is confirmed, the system activates the suppression process without delay. Fire extinguishing agents are delivered through pipelines directly to the fire source, enabling rapid suppression and preventing further spread.

Adaptability to Harsh Environments:
Open-pit mines feature highly demanding working conditions, where mining trucks operate under heavy loads, high dust levels, and elevated temperatures. The system is engineered to withstand such harsh environments while providing uninterrupted fire monitoring of the engine compartment, electrical boxes, and other fire-prone zones. It ensures accurate detection and swift response during the early stage of a fire.

2. Underground Mining Trucks

Explosion-Proof Design:
Constructed with explosion-proof materials, the system can operate safely and reliably in explosive underground environments, ensuring smooth fire detection and suppression.

Precision Fire Suppression:
Equipped with high-precision detectors, the system accurately identifies fire signals in underground mining trucks and initiates fire suppression instantly, providing point-to-point targeted extinguishing.

Unattended Operation:
With its automated and intelligent design, the system performs fire detection, alarm, and suppression independently, without requiring human intervention. This significantly reduces safety risks for underground personnel.

Automatic Fire Suppression Systems for Mining Equipment

Automatic Fire Suppression Systems for Mining Equipment

Golden Mean Fire-Fighting Equipment Co.,LTD. is a professional manufacturer specializing in the design, research and development, and production of fire safety detection systems and customized special fire extinguishing devices, including water-based automatic fire extinguishing devices for mining vehicles, automatic fire extinguishing systems for automobile engine compartments, automatic fire extinguishing systems for underground special vehicles, perfluorohexanone fire extinguishing devices for lithium battery boxes, automatic fire extinguishers for vehicles, vehicle-mounted fire extinguishing systems, temperature-sensing automatic fire extinguishing devices, fire detection tube fire extinguishing systems, ultra-fine dry powder engine compartment fire extinguishing equipment, industrial fire protection IoT systems, temperature detection and early warning devices, thermal imaging detection and display systems, infrared detection and imaging systems, optical detection, explosion-proof flame detection fire early warning and simulation monitoring systems, quantum detection systems, electric spark early warning detection devices, and automatic fire alarm equipment.

The company's products are widely used in underground mining operations of gold, copper, iron, tungsten, silver, and coal mines, as well as in industries such as rock drilling rigs, loaders, tunneling machines, scrapers, support transport vehicles, port conveyors, forklifts, reach stackers, excavators, wide-body dump trucks, transport vehicles, off-highway vehicles, electric drive vehicles, battery-powered vehicles, power equipment, high and low voltage switchgear, electrical cabinet interiors, cable trenches, cable interlayers, lithium battery compartments, laboratories, and special operation sites. Examples include: mining trucks, passenger vehicles, new energy fire extinguishing vehicles, logistics transport vehicles, special vehicles, vehicle braking systems, and axles. GMFire's Protection Equipment's automatic detection, early warning, and fire extinguishing products can be equipped for a wide range of applications, including temperature detection systems, shipbuilding machinery and equipment, marine engines and generator sets, oilfield drilling equipment, mining machinery and equipment, large punching machines, tire and wheel production systems, roller crushers, printing ink equipment, food factory frying equipment, high-temperature tunnel drying ovens, high and low voltage switchgear, substations, diesel engine compartments, aircraft engines, paint spraying booths in painting workshops, paint production and manufacturing equipment, automatic fryers, gunpowder magazines, waste disposal equipment, logistics warehousing, fume ducts, and heat treatment equipment.