Invertek VSD – Fire Mode Variable Speed Drives for Smoke Control in Buildings
Ensuring a building remains compliant with Australian fire regulations for larger buildings can mean ensuring your building's ventilation system can support fire and smoke control (AS 166.8.1) during an emergency event.
The Invertek Optidrive Eco HVAC variable speed drive range is designed to remain operational in supporting emergency smoke control and ventilation systems. This programming ensures extraction fans within an emergency scenario can remain operational, removing smoke, hot gases and toxic combustion products from an environment to support fire compartmentation.
The system maintains a negative pressure in fire zones to extract hot gases, toxic smoke and carbon monoxide, enabling occupants to escape and fire crews to enter.
The true benefit of this fire mode system is that the variable speed drive will ignore certain non-critical faults and warnings, prioritising continued smoke extraction from the environment to promote evacuation and prevent smoke spread. Safety system installers can provide control over a range of parameters to suit the environment, from fan direction, speed and setpoints from the fire management or building management system.
The Invertek variable speed drives can be deployed on ventilation systems in various fire management settings, including fire zone smoke extraction and stairwell escape and route pressurisation.
The Invertek VSD’s can be deployed as a dual-duty system, providing ventilation control in standard everyday settings and activating fire mode during an emergency event.
If you have an upcoming commercial building project and need an AS 166.8.1 smoke control compliant system, the Invertek variable speed drive can support your smoke control system. Speak with our helpful ADM team today! Send any questions via our contact page here or call the team directly on 1300 236 467.
