The fire detection and alarm system for what is claimed to be the largest renewable biomass co-firing project in the world is to be protected with fire resistant cable from Prysmian.
In total some 10km of FP200 Gold and FP400 are being used for the system at the new £80m development at the Drax power station in north Yorkshire. The new facility will enable it to receive, handle, store, process and co-fire with coal a variety of biomass materials.
“We wanted to use Prysmian FP cable from the start,” said Andrew Hutchison, service director of Faelsafe Ltd, the subcontractor that designed and installed the fire detection and alarm system. “The main reason being its reliability and, having used the cables before, we know they meet the strict requirements for fire performance cables as set out in BS 5839-1:2002+A2:2008.”
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