Alright, good morning. We're here in the Victaulic booth at HydroVision International 2013
I'm here with Ian MacInnis and Ian has agreed to take a few minutes to talk to us about Vortex
What we have here is our Victaulic Vortex system
We launched this product in June of 2008 
at the NFPA Show in Las Vegas
What it is is a special hazard fire suppression system utilizing nitrogen and water
The nitrogen is used to inert the oxygen level in the room down to 14-14.5%
The water is used to cool the room in case of high defliance.
What we do is we're using very low pressure piping to enable 25 psi down through our valve 
but it's at high velocity
The nitrogen atomizes the water over our patented foil right here.
atomizing the water to sub-10 micron sized droplets
We're using such a small amount of water
 only about a gallon of it touches 1.6 gallons per minute for over a 2500 cubic foot space
Specifically our system was designed for the protection of turbines
generators
both for underground and local applications
Since our systems have had great success over the last 5 years
We've spread them out to server rooms, MCC rooms
underground applications, paint and spray booths etc, steel manufacturing facilities
So we have many different applications now
But specifically for turbine protection, as you see on the video
We have emitters in a room protecting turbine space
when there is a fire, 
Just your standard detection, smoke and heat detection will trigger our system to go
We'll fire nitrogen first and then water
Filling the room with what is essentially a fog
Creating a very, very small amount of water in the room
so very little cleanup is required, a paper towel and a mop at the most
very effective in extinguishing turbine fires 
because we are reducing the oxygen level to below where a fire can survive
about 14 to 14.5%
so if you want to find out more about Victaulic go onto victaulicvortex.com
or get a hold of us at the Victaulic number
Thank you very much Ian. We appreciate it.
We will look forward to welcoming you to HydrogenVision. Please drop by. Thanks.
