Todd, So far they have warehouses to store cigarrettes but they want to move their business and store these 'giant pallets', more profitable as they say.
>From your analysis I assume the client has not realised of the risk they will >face in the future, no one told me of the necessity to create air movement >inside the warehouses made of concrete. Cesar ________________________________ From: Todd Williams <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 6:43:41 AM Subject: Re: TOBACCO WAREHOUSE Is the drying facility an actual warehouse or more of a barn used for drying? Having grown up in eastern CT, I am familiar with the old wooden barns they used for drying the tobacco. They typically had removable boards to allow air flow to facilitate the drying. Fires in these tend to be very fast burning and typically a total loss. Kind of like a giant pile of pallets with dried leaves hanging all through them. Would be very difficult to protect. My guess is that the technology may be very different now, like giant steel frame buildings with a couple of Big Ass Fans. As far as the "assembly" area, I would think the product would be a Class III and one big concern would be in process or final product storage prior to shipping. Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut 860-535-2080 www.fpdc.com _______________________________________________ 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)
