What is Fike Explosion Protection?

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Our team helps identify the necessary explosion protection solutions, design the system for the unique equipment and manufacture it to ensure Fike's high quality is always met. Fike explosion protection solutions are extensively tested and validated to ensure they work precisely as intended if called upon.

Testing Validation
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We are the leaders in explosion protection because we never stop learning. The Fike Labs team works every day to understand combustible hazard phenomena in unique applications and the performance of new and existing explosion protection solutions, all in an effort to ensure people remain protected.

Service
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We proudly provide installation, commissioning and maintenance to our explosion protection systems in six continents. With a growing network consisting of more than 60 trained technicians and partners, we can schedule service within just hours of receiving the initial request.

Budget & Logistics
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We can work with our customers on a "phased explosion protection strategy" that allows solutions to be implemented over time while working toward full compliance. This approach prioritizes the most critical hazards, aligns with budgets and minimizes downtime, all while protecting your bottom line.

Design Your Fike Explosion Protection System

Are you wondering which Fike explosion protection solution may be recommended to protect your unique industrial process equipment?

Our easy-to-use Explosion Protection Methods Tool will indicate the possible protection strategies based on your application's:

  • Hazard Type
  • Volume
  • Inlet & Outlet Type
  • Inside or Outside Location
  • And more

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Global Field Service Network

We are proud to have the largest network of explosion protection technicians across the world to ensure quick and reliable service regardless of the location. You can count on us for:

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Installation

Ensure all devices are installed precisely to system drawings and during a convenient time in your production schedule to minimize downtime. If your contractors are installing the system, you can expect the Fike system to be delivered on time, organized and labeled, and our team is available for assistance every step of the way.

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Commissioning

Activate your process with the installed explosion protection system to ensure electrical, PLC and all other connected systems work as expected. Includes validation of operating parameters, electrical connections check, container pressure validation, panel operation training, and much more.

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Maintenance

Required to comply with regional standards and ensure reliable performance of the explosion protection system if called upon. Fike's scheduled maintenance plans prioritize lead times, perform quarterly maintenance, and inspect and replace system parts if necessary, providing you full confidence that your process is safe.

Fike Labs

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Fike Labs performs tests every day on flammable and explosive materials to validate the trusted solutions that will reliably save someone's life if called upon. However, Fike Labs is much more than just testing and validation.

Research and innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Fike.

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Proved that all testing of explosion isolation flap valves must include several elements, such as the "protected zone pipeline," to simulate real world conditions during an actual deflagration. This research would soon lead to the development of Fike DFI (Dual-Flap Isolation Valve).

Fike Labs flameless venting efficiency
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How effectively a vent relieves pressure is referred to as its "venting efficiency." However, when designing a flameless venting system, product clogging and many other variables must but included (and may increase the quantity of vents) to ensure workers and the process are reliably protected.

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Thermal runaway of a li-ion battery within a BESS is an extremely dangerous and unpredictable hazard. Fike Labs discovered and validated Fike Blue, the world's first solution to stopping cascading thermal runaway. They also perform pre-UL9540A testing and design safety systems to ensure BESS protection.

Selecting The Right Explosion Protection Partner

When searching for an explosion protection provider, do you know which services are important to your business? Do you know the right questions to ask?

Fike partnered with the team at Dust Safety Science to create the following checklist which details all of the capabilities an explosion protection provider should possess to help you reach combustible dust safety.

Download The Checklist

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Protecting Your Equipment

Every industrial process has its own equipment, geometries, materials and hazards, making “one-size-fits-all” explosion protection impossible. Fike’s decades of experience, system design team and comprehensive explosion mitigation systems ensure we have the solutions to reliably protect each of your unique applications.

All Applications

Dust Collectors

Because an industrial process’ finest combustible dust is stored in these vessels, dust collectors are one of the most common areas to experience a deflagration.

Bucket Elevators

Numerous parts such as bearings, pulleys and the belt may become misaligned and create sparks in the head or boot where dust clouds are often present.

Silos

While materials such as grain, coal, wood chips and agricultural goods are conveyed into the silo, a combustible dust cloud is often created.

Cyclones

While cyclones have a low risk of supporting the initial combustion, they still must be protected from explosions occurring in connected equipment.

BESS

Malfunctioning lithium ion batteries will produce explosive off-gas, so BESS units without proper fire suppression or ventilation systems must be protected with explosion vents.

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The industrial drying process (including spray dyers and fluid bed dryers) accounts for nearly 20 percent of all combustible dust-related fires and explosions. Learn more about the hazards throughout the drying process and Fike’s recommended solutions.

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