Waste Recycling Plants Enhance Fire Safety with FAAST

Honeywell FAAST

by | May 18, 2015

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Honeywell FAASTA growing number of recycling and waste management plants are using Honeywell’s Fire Alarm Aspiration Sensing Technology (FAAST) smoke detector, the company says.

The system design removes both dust-stimulated false alarms and problems arising from environmental fluctuation.

FAAST uses a three-stage filtration technique, dual-optics particle analysis and intelligent algorithms that distinguish smoke from dust. The company says the device can withstand temperature and humidity variations, auto-learning its environment.

Tim Checketts, business development manager for Honeywell fire safety, says high dust prevalence and environmental fluctuations cause increased false alarms, which lead to unplanned downtimes — at least 30 minutes unplanned downtime and resources to investigate per event — and increase maintenance needs. Using FAAST will reduce waste management plants’ total cost of fire safety, Checketts says.

 

 

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