The Challenge
Ensuring safety for hydrogen-ready gas turbines amidst changing standards.
The Tallawarra B development required a fire protection solution that could operate reliably in a mixed hydrogen and natural gas environment and interface with EnergyAustralia’s plant wide SCADA system. The key challenge was achieving fast, sensitive detection in enclosed switchrooms with high air change rates. DIS Fire Systems developed a layered solution combining VESDA aspirating early warning detection with addressable photo optical detectors, and intrinsically safe devices in hazardous classified zones. Aspirating pipe networks were modelled in ASPIRE to verify transport times and sampling performance under these high airflow conditions.
