Ya Mike this is one of the good responses I mentioned and the main drawback I have brooded over- we can put rovers on Mars but we can't keep NaCl2 in pipe? How about CPVC?
> On Feb 2, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Mike Cabral <[email protected]> wrote: > > As I recall Calcium Chloride is very hard to contain. It will weep out of > perfect threaded connection, packing glands etc. Very slippery stuff. > > Mike C > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 2, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Brad Casterline <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In Sep 2010 I posted 'Calcium Chloride Loops'? >> Somewhere along the line the thread got renamed, but there was some good >> responses exposing the drawbacks to it replacing combustible antifreeze >> first. >> My (lack of) money is on overcoming these drawbacks beating any U.L. Listed >> alcohol based fluid to market-- for residential anyway. >> I imagine 1) no city tap hence no tapping fee or BFP, 2) freeze protection >> to -40F, 3) small Gallon high PSI pressure tanks hence K=2.8, 4) limit the >> heat release rate of the most challenging residential fire to 1.6 MW , >> meaning the wet stuff is on the red stuff at about 10 seconds for a small >> room and maybe twice that for a big room. >> If I were a maker of auto sprinkler system things (Residential Department) >> this is the direction I would be looking. >> >> Brad >> _______________________________________________ >> Sprinklerforum mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
