Nicky, Take this for what it is worth as I am certainly NOT an engineer or chemist ...
I just attended a wonderful one day open house program at the FM Fire Research Center in Rhode Island USA and among the various things they demonstrated to us was a dust explosion. Quite an impressive fireball and shockwave was had by all .... The fuel was about 1 pound of phenolic resin dust which meant nothing to me that day except it was amazing to experience from 50 feet away behind a shield. So if you were to ask me .... I'd say for absolute certain it is a hazardous dust and worthy of special engineering all around, not just sprinkler design. Good luck. Dave Phelan An AHJ in NJ _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
