Firetrace has launched a flexible fire detection tubing with enhanced chemical durability, to mitigate the risk of fire and total loss in offshore and near shore wind turbines.
XD detection tubing detects fires by sensing either heat or flame, and unlike similar detection tubing products, it resists corrosion, creep, and ozone exposure as found in both offshore and near-shore turbine environments.
Firetrace said developers are “highly motivated” to ensure that their assets can continuously operate and return high energy yields and, therefore profits, and to prevent the reputational damage associated with turbine fires to both their companies and the global offshore wind sector.
As such, XD improves the efficiency of identifying and suppressing wind turbine fires to prevent a catastrophic event and reputational crisis, while helping end-users save on maintenance costs by providing an automatic solution to combating turbine fires, said the company.
The product is launched following extensive accelerated environmental exposure testing which simulates the field service conditions on the polymeric fire detection tubing for corrosion, creep resistance and ozone exposure.
The XD tubing performed ideally in the saltwater and zinc galvanic corrosion testing as well as elevated ozone exposure found in ocean environments.