Specify 3M™ Novec™ 1230 Fire Protection Fluid with Confidence

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Build the right specification for your client’s needs with our Build a Spec tool. Our experienced team of fire suppression engineers has developed language you can use to help you easily specify a system containing Novec 1230 fluid for your client’s project, either by name or by general properties.

Are you writing specs for 3M™ Novec™ 1230 Fire Protection Fluid?

The extinguishant is the essential component in any fire suppression system. When you create a specification, your recommendations could determine if people, valuable assets or even an entire business survives a fire.

Specify an agent that is:
- Safe for use in occupied space
- Environmentally sustainable
- Electrically non-conductive
- Recognised by international standards such as NFPA 2001 and ISO 14520
- Able to extinguish the fire at the incipient stage
- Residue-free
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Do procurement rules require a non-branded fire suppressant?

In some cases, you may wish to emphasise specific client criteria, such as environmental sustainability, margin of safety for occupants or protection against hard disk damage during system discharge. Choose your area of emphasis below to access specification copy focused on those considerations. Use these specification guidelines to get the important features your clients need.

Non-branded spec

If you are required to specify without a brand name, you can also specify based on the agent's unique properties. Novec 1230 fluid combines exceptional sustainability with the highest margin of safety among clean extinguishing agents, and is not targeted for regulatory phasedown.

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Environmentally friendly

Zero ozone depletion doesn’t tell the whole story. For complete sustainable solutions, you’ll want a clean agent with a global warming potential (GWP) of <1. The specs below can be used for clients that highly value sustainable products not subject to current or future climate change regulations.

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High safety margin

All clean agents do not have the same margins of safety. When extinguishing a fire in occupied spaces, the safety of the agent is a very important consideration. A key to that is the minimum design concentration used. As an alternative to calling out clean agents by brand, products may be specified by requiring margins of safety.

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Prevent HDD damage

An inert gas release during a fire may damage hard disk drives. The discharge in a server room may last 120 seconds for a Class A hazard. (NFPA 2001 5.7.1.1.2.) The frequency, acoustic level and the duration of the sound during discharge all contribute to hard drive failure by interrupting data tracking on spinning hard disk drives. No chemical clean agent discharge has been reported to damage hard disk drives.

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Find an approved equipment manufacturer

When you choose Novec 1230 fluid as your clean agent, you’ll need to specify it as part of a complete fire suppression system. The system you select is based on the agent. These 3M approved original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) understand the unique chemistry of Novec 1230 fluid and have engineered their listed or approved systems to optimize its extinguishing performance and protect your critical assets.

Amerex

Manufacturer of Model 775/776R Wheeled Extinguishers using Novec 1230 fluid.
Fike Corporation

Manufacturer of Fike® Impulse® Valve Technology engineered fire suppression systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Fireboy- Xintex Inc

Manufacturer of GA1 and GA2 systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Firetec Systems Ltd

Manufacturer of 25- and 42-bar FSL 1230 clean agent systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Firetrace

Manufacturer of Firetrace 1230 total flooding and streaming fire suppression systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Fritz Rensmann GmbH & Co.

Manufacturer of fire protection systems for railway applications using Novec 1230 fluid.
Janus Fire Systems

Manufacturer of Sv Series, Mv Series and Lv Series systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Kidde Fire Systems

Manufacturer of ADS and ECS Clean Agent Fire Suppression systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Lifeline

Manufacturer of Lifeline Zero (ZERO, 360 and 2000) systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Martec

Manufacturer of 40- and 80-bar GV80 fire suppression systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Minimax

Manufacturer of MX 1230 systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Rotarex

Manufacturer of pre-engineered FireDETEC fire suppression systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Safecraft

Manufacturer of Model PB3/PB5, Model UTV, Model LT & Model AT systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Sea-Fire

Manufacturer of SEA-FIRE NMD & NMG, NFG & NFD systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
SEVO Systems

Manufacturer of Force500™, FireFlex®, Flex™, Cube™ and modular systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Siemens Building Technologies

Manufacturer of Sinorix 1230 systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Tyco (Johnson Controls)

Manufacturer of SAPPHIRE® clean agent systems using Novec 1230 fluid.
Viking

Manufacturer of MX 1230 Fire Extinguishing Systems using Novec 1230 fluid.

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