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Deluge Valve System Working
Deluge Valve System Working
Deluge Valve System Working
In essence, due to their wide scale use in this area, the deluge valve
systems can be referred to as being one of among the fire safety devices.
They are an inherent part in the fire protection systems.
The pipelines of the fixed fire protection systems mostly remain empty
throughout the operation of a process but when suddenly a fire occurs
then the deluge systems deliver enough water through the pipelines in
order to extinguish the fire.
Deluge valve systems are quite popular to be used for a transformer
system. They are also used for conveyor protection, storage tanks
containing flammable substance, in aircrafts, any area where inflammable
liquids are being used, they are also used to cool equipments in order to
prevent structural collapses.
The clapper and seat seal which are operated via a diaphragm are able to
produce the three isolated chambers when the device is not being used.
When it is being used then the position of clapper and seat seal changes
due to which two chambers join with each other.
The third chamber is which helps in opening or closing the valve. The
third chamber is also called as top or priming chamber. The rest of the
chambers can be called as inlet or primary chamber and outlet chamber.
When the valve is in set position then there is a passage of water through
the primary chamber but it doesn’t flow through the outlet chamber
instead it bypasses to the priming chamber via a bypass line.
When water flows in the priming chamber then it causes the chamber to
expand as the chamber is supported by diaphragm operated clapper and
seat seal. The pressure of the water from the primary chamber itself will
help in keeping the device always in set position.
It causes the water to move from the inlet chamber to outlet chamber
and thus a large amount of water flows towards wherever it is needed at
the moment. When the fire gets extinguished then the deluge valve
system returns to its set position.