Mining and Energy
Fireball Suppression Services has proudly installed ElideFire® Fireballs in many mineral, oil and gas units.
Evolution Mining
Fireball Suppression Services has provided planning, installation and ongoing maintenance to Evolution Mining. As seen in the images, the Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball devices are placed in strategic locations allowing for both automatic detonation and manual detonation. This maximises coverage and flexibility.
Evolution Mining is currently installing Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball devices in their mining facilities and rigs at Mount Carlton. This has greatly reduced the cost of Evolution Mining’s fire suppression system installation and ongoing maintenance costs.
Joshua Nott, Health, Safety and Training Superintendent at Mt Rawdon and former ERT and Risk Advisor at Mt Rawdon, Cracow and Mt Carlton, tested the balls for us and given them his stamp of approval.
CREATENERGYe
CREATENERGYe develops and implements waste and energy solutions. Previous projects include oil reprocessing, diesel displacement and coal mine and coal seam processing solutions.
CREATENERGYe is currently installing Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball devices in their manufacturing facility and in all of their units built for the resources industry clients.
Elide Fire Extinguishing Balls will be used in all our generators going forward on all mine sites and will be retrofitted to existing units onsite.
Paul Gaffney, Operations and Safety Manager
Technical Details
The Elide Fire Extinguishing Balls are validated and tested by independent industry experts.
The Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball has received a BSI Group (British Standards Institution) Verification Certificate.
The technical data for the Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball model ELB01 (6 inch) has been verified by BSI Group. Verification has been undertaken against Technical File BSI-AUST-0001 # 10062020 by the Australian Distributor and Technical File ELIDETC6210001 Version 1.0 – VC 719331 dated 15 Oct 2019 by the Manufacturer.
Reference: Certificate Numbers VC 728757 and VC 719331.
Testing and verification of technical details and performance has also been conducted by entities a part of / affiliated with the Bureau Veritas Group and TÜV SÜD Group.
Device models ELB02-1 and ELB02-1 (4 Inch) use a substantially similar design, except on a smaller scale.
The Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball has also been tested by the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES).