Over­view

Re­search fa­cil­it­ies present fire pro­tec­tion sys­tems with spe­cial and par­tic­u­larly de­mand­ing re­quire­ments: even if a fire does break out, the strictly reg­u­lated pres­sure re­la­tion­ships must be main­tained, since they are de­signed to pro­tect the ex­ter­ior sur­round­ings and the en­vir­on­ment; and of course, all the ex­pens­ive, sens­it­ive in­stall­a­tions have to be se­cured from dam­age. Not an easy task, there­fore ef­fi­cient fire pro­tec­tion pre­vi­ously mostly ended at the labor­at­ory door. With the novel Ar­gotec Clean­Lab gas ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tem, Minimax now provides op­timum safety. This solu­tion ful­fills all re­quire­ments placed on the fire de­tec­tion sys­tem without hav­ing to make any com­prom­ises. When the sys­tem is ac­tiv­ated, either manu­ally or by means of a fire de­tector, a fire de­tec­tion and ex­tin­guish­ing con­trol unit takes over con­trol. One par­tic­u­lar fea­ture: dif­fer­en­tial pres­sure meas­ure­ment is used to con­trol the room vent­il­a­tion so that the pre­set room pres­sure is main­tained. The new Ar­gotec Clean­Lab sys­tem is able to build up and main­tain a con­cen­tra­tion of gas suf­fi­cient to put out a fire even while the vent­il­a­tion is still run­ning. This al­lows the fire to be ex­tin­guished ef­fi­ciently without des­troy­ing the pres­sure dif­fer­ence or leav­ing residues of ex­tin­guish­ing agent to dam­age the room. The eco­nomic be­ne­fits of this solu­tion are evid­ent: in sens­it­ive labor­at­or­ies, work in pro­gress is much less af­fected by a fire in­cid­ent - work can be re­sumed after just a brief period of time. The low rate of down­times, rapid ap­proval pro­ced­ures and the solid pro­tec­tion of high-tech in­vest­ments all speak out in favor of Ar­gotec Clean­Lab.