Have y'all seen Viking's Micblast? Just curious if these are different/easier/better? If I'm not mistaken they have two types - one as described below that fills with air then purges and refills and one that will fill with nitrogen as a high pressure cylinder would. I believe I am correct on the choices, forgive me if I am wrong.
Bobby Gillett Sr. Project Manager Key Fire Protection, Inc. (731) 424-0130 office (731) 424-9285 fax (731) 267-4853 cell www.keyfireprotection.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Morey, Mike Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 6:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: N2 Generator We bought ours from these guys: http://www.fpscmi.com/ The big challenge I think is that a straight generator isn't really capable of doing this job while being reasonably sized, the way their system works is that it fills the system with regular air (in part this is required because of the NFPA mandated minimum system filling times), then purges and refills over time with concentrated nitrogen which displaces the oxygen. Our systems are under 3% once the cycling finishes. Even so the Ingersol compressors are monsters and the systems weren't cheap... Mike Morey, SET, CFPS Sprinkler Designer BMW Constructors, Inc. O: 317.651.0596 | C: 317.586.8111 www.bmwc.com ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Tom Duross Sent: Tue 2/21/2012 6:53 AM To: Sprinklerforum Subject: N2 Generator Has anyone designed and installed a nitrogen generator for a dry system? I have some questions regarding listing, sizing, flow rate and pressure. I'm wondering if the requirements are similar to air compressors with those above parameters in particular, although I don't see a definitive yes or no in the standard (2007 here). So I guess maybe I'm looking for opinions/advice. I'm hoping to be replacing that old system I posted about a month ago suspect of being effected by MIC. Planning to have some lab work done beforehand to ascertain requirements. Thomas Duross The Fire Pump Testing Company 11 Varney Street Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 T 617-971-0700 F 617-524-7171 C 617-592-4236 [email protected] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachment s/20120221/e1e92f4a/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 5013 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachment s/20120221/c2dd3ec2/attachment.bin> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2113/4822 - Release Date: 02/20/12 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
