They claim the coal is crushed to powder form before being brought into the building, and that the powdered coal has been tested to be non-combustible. I'm waiting for the report.
Tony -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of njarendt tds.net Sent: February 23, 2011 2:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fertilizer Plant Never heard of coal dust being noncombustible. We have employees up in the mines and it is combustible and explosive per them. Norm On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:41 PM, A.P.Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > Coal dust is used in a process to manufacture fertilizer, in a 40,000 > sq.ft. > building, about 28 feet high. The issue is whether the building has to > be sprinklered. The owner claims the coal is non-combustible and thus > the building occupancy is low hazard industrial, in which case it > would not have to be sprinklered. Anyone can comment on the occupancy? > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > -- Norman Arendt, CHS III, CMAS, PhD, CFEII President Infragard Madison Members Alliance Middleton Fire District Plan Reviewer and Investigator PCII and CVI Certified _______________________________________________ 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)
