FOAM SYSTEMS

Chemguard's foam systems are designed to meet your fire fighting needs in industrial, commercial and transportation applications. Consisting of Chemguard engineered and manufactured components, these systems bring a rapid thorough and economical response to fires of all types. The appropriate combination of foam concentrate, storage tank, proportioning and foam discharge devices, valves, and piping delivers the optimal level of foam agent to the fire, often with no external power other than water pressure to ensure correct operation. 

A Chemguard foam system is more than the sum of its parts because it is designed and engineered to your application specifications, however, the parts are indeed exceptional in their own right, and many are available as replacement components or improvements for existing systems. 

Consult your Chemguard engineer for specifics on putting these exceptional systems to work for you.

Chemguard's Bladder Tanks are one component in a balance pressure foam proportioning system. It requires no external power other than water pressure to ensure correct operation. Both vertical and horizontal bladder tanks are designed and constructed in accordance with the latest revisions to ASME code. Proportioning is the introduction of foam concentrate into a flowing water stream to produce a foam solution. Chemguard offers a variety of proportioning equipment that will accurately accomplish this task with various types of systems such as Bladder tanks, balance pressure proportioning systems and inline balance proportioning systems (ILBP's).

Chemguard's line of UL listed and FM approved vertical and horizontal bladder tank systems are available from 25 gallons to 2,500 gallons in the vertical and 100 gallons to 6,000 gallons in the horizontal style. These systems provide a dependable and cost-effective foam fire protection for a variety of flammable/combustible hazard areas and because water is the primary operating medium, they are easy to operate and maintain. Bladder tanks are frequently used in small aircraft hangers, warehouses, helicopter decks, and storage facilities. When the tank is in operation, water is applied to the outside surface of the bladder and subsequently displaces the foam concentrate, which is contained inside the bladder, which then makes its way to the proportioning device and then is injected into the water stream. 

• Bladder is manufactured in extremely durable material which has a Mullen bursting pressure in excess of 800 psi and constructed to conform to the inside dimensions of the tank 
• Tanks are supplied with brass trimmed valves with Teflon seats 
• All valves are labeled showing normal working conditions 
• All tanks are oversized to allow for any thermal expansion of the foam concentrate 
• All tanks are certified and supplied with a label identifying the type of foam concentrate the system is designed for and the percentage ratio and tank size 
• All tanks include the following trim valve packages: tank shell drain/fill valve; tank shell vent valve, bladder vent valve and bladder drain/fill valve 
• Various options, such as coating, sight glass, pre-piping, stainless steel, insulated and heat-tracing packages are available 
• UL listed 
• FM approved