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Fire protection for the Tissue industry
"A fire broke out at the ... mill in the UK on September 10. A small blaze erupted in the drying section of a paper machine at 4 pm."
"The police investigation of the fire last weekend at ... has concluded that the storage hall fire was caused by a technical fault, with no human error or act to blame. The police has named the cause as a spark from a steel part used in cleaning a drying cylinder, something which can happen in any papermaking operation and something which had occasionally happened in the past at ... Although all safety directions were followed, the police believe a spark must have landed on a finished roll, which was then stored in the parent-reel store where the fire later broke out. The spark was not visible and not to be expected, ... reports. Nevertheless, a faint smell of smoke caused employees to carry out an inspection and they found the cause and tried to remove the roll with a crane, but this was not possible."
"A spectacular blaze has destroyed one of ... tissue product warehouses in the U.K."
As production rates increase, so do risks! One of the big concerns at a tissue plant is fire. The worst and most feared scenario is that ignition sources created by a production related problem, such as sparks and hot particles from the Yankee Hood, are transferred to the warehouse within the tissue reel. The typical frequency of this scenario is low but if and when it happens, the consequences are devastating.
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