The High-Rise Building Multiple Entry Vertical Escape Technology
1968 - 2001
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History will shows that:
THOUSANDS COULD HAVE SAVED THEIR LIVES IN THE WTC
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People that were trapped above the floor levels impacted could have
been evacuated by only one set of four or five units of ZEC-EM, remaining
operative over 25, in few minutes.
The Zephinie Escape Chute (ZEC)
can operate over 100 floors.
Can evacuate up 1000 persons per minute, including handicapped ,
injured persons with the same average escape speed.
Ignorance or bad will
can't invalidate demonstrable
facts.
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Fire code enclosed ZEC escape chute
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High Risk Industry Applications:
1. - Nuclear
Power Plants.
2. - Bridge Crane, Tower Crane, etc.
3. - Ammunition Plants and similar location
4. - Space Rocket Launching Pads
5. - Textile Wet Curtain Technology
6. - Portable light ZEC systems
7. - Giant mining and dirt moving equipment
1. Nuclear Power Plants:
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Nuclear Power
Plants:
In a high-risk area, such as the sodium thermal exchanger of the
Marcoule's Super Phoenix power plant, the ZEC is used as a normal
vertical transportation, at the end of the routine check-up path, to
shorten unnecessary human presence in a dangerous location.
This example can eventually apply to hundreds of similar uses in the
Chemical industry, Steel Industry, etc.
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2. - Bridge Crane, Tower Crane,
Harbor Crane, etc.
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Bridge Crane,
Tower Crane, etc. In highly socially developed countries,
regulations ask for an alternative means of evacuation for crane
operators. The ZEC offers incomparable superior service, compared to
the chains and ladders.
The picture shows the ZEC during the tests on a bridge crane of the
old Renault factory of Boulogne Billancour, France. (1977)
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3. - Ammunition Plants and
similar location
Ammunition Plants and similar
locations involving potential explosive dangers.
A special installation concept, first designed by Gerard Zephinie for
the European Space Agency's Rocket Launching Pad in Guyana (1977), can
be applied to work in places where operators must clear, and reach a
safe place in less than 3 seconds.
4. - Space Rocket Launching Pads
5. - Textile Wet Curtain
Technology
The Textile Wet Curtain
protection is another little known Technology, actually included in the
ZEC special protection in high-risk industrial environments.
Two hour fire protection of an escape route can be reached using an
unfolding installation of the ZEC-SE type with the advantage of being
completely concealed when not in use.
6. - Portable light ZEC systems
Portable light ZEC systems have been specially designed to provide
worker's evacuation in construction site and maintenance operations.
7. - Giant mining and dirt moving equipment
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A ZEC installation
on a giant truck
Musée des Sciences et Techniques
Paris, France (1984)
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