PPV & Impulse Ventilation Testing
- Giving invaluable, highly realistic hands on training
- Fixed installations or portable systems
- Smoke does not evaporate like conventional water based training smoke
- Teach candidates to clear smoke-filled environments quickly & efficiently
- Used to demonstrate the pros and cons of negative & positive pressure ventilation
- 50 years experience in the generation of artificial smoke
When water-based artificial smoke is introduced into a rapidly moving air stream, the particles that make up the artificial smoke evaporate much more quickly than they do in a static environment.
So if you are looking to produce an artificial smoke that better represents the smoke created by a real fire, we would always recommend the ViCount smoke generator, the smoke from which is virtually unaffected by fast moving air streams. Used world wide PPV training centre's and to test impulse ventilation systems.
A Home Office report into PPV (Positive pressure Ventilation) by the Head of the Fire Experimental Unit, Fire Research & Development concluded that the concept behind the technique of PPV was relatively easy to understand and the equipment simple to operate, but stressed the need for extensive training.
Our Users Say:
"We use smoke generators for fire simulations and positive pressure ventilation training for approx 10 hours per week. The smoke adds realistic conditions for Fire Fighters to train in but with safety in mind.
Compared to our other generators, the Spirit 900 has much lower running costs."
Concept Recommends
- ViCount 5000/180/2.2kw
- Spirit 900A
- Vulcan 5000 / 180 / 2.8kw
Hire Concept's Smoke Generators
Want more information, advice or prices? email or phone:
+44 (0) 1628 825 555 / info@conceptsmoke.com
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Confined Space Rescue Program Manager - North Tree Fire
ViCount use in Hot Fire Trainer
The machine has performed flawlessly up to this point and I purchased the machine from you at least six or seven years ago.
I have to confess I have never cleaned the orifice with the drill as you mentioned.
Actually, after the install, I have never worked on the machine again which, I am sure, is at least neglect on my part.
We originally had two smoke generators in the trainer, one fore and one aft. The other machine (not Concepts) is quite a bit older
and it quit about two years ago but we found that the ViCount generated so much smoke we did not really need two machines.
The machine is protected from the heat of the trainer by a bulkhead with a port for the smoke to get through.
To give you an idea of the efficiency and quantity and the character of the smoke, the ceiling temperature inside the trainer as verified by two gauges reaches about 1300 degrees F. The smoke level inside the trainer is maintained quite adequately from the floor to about the
four and one half foot level but not much higher due to the temperature. We have found that it burns off at about 450 degrees F (230C).
Your smoke machine has trained hundreds of line Firefighters from all over the US including from major metropolitan Fire Departments such as Los Angeles County Fire, Pasadena Fire, San Jose Fire, Las Vegas Fire, Oakland Fire, Berkeley Fire, Sacramento Metro Fire, Cal Fire, and many federal agencies as well.
The training and experience those fire fighters receive in the intense heat and disorientingly smoky environment the ViCount helps create has without question saved lives and injuries as well as millions of dollars of property damage that may have occurred without the level of training
the ViCount helps provide.
Thank you for your help and support.
Best regards,
Mitch
Mitch Ward CIHM
NorthTree Fire
Confined Space Rescue Program Manager