Ultra high speed deluge? The poster child of the 1970s and.... On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:15 PM, AKS-Gmail-IMAP <[email protected]> wrote: > Can a sprinkler design do anything about it other than attempt to > survive the blast and remain functional? > > Allan Seidel > St. Louis, MO > > On Nov 28, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Dave Phelan wrote: > >> >> 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) > > _______________________________________________ > 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) >
-- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Bates Technical College Tacoma, WA Member: SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA AFAA, WSAFM _______________________________________________ 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)
