There have been some heated debates on this issue. I have a White Paper which
outlined numerous testing scenarios with vents, curtains and sprinklers.
Here is the Conclusion of the research.
INTERACTION OF SPRINKLERS WITH SMOKE AND HEAT VENTS
Craig L. Beyler and Leonard Y. Cooper
Hughes
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There have been some heated debates on this issue. I have a White
Many instances? Care to list a few for us?
Thom McMahon, SET
Firetech, Inc.
2560 Copper Ridge Dr
P.O. Box 882136
Steamboat Springs, CO 80488
Tel: 970-879-7952
Fax: 970-879-7926
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Many instances? Care to list a few for us?
Thom McMahon, SET
Firetech, Inc.
2560 Copper Ridge Dr
P.O. Box 882136
Everyone advocates for their interest BUT I am not aware of a time
when we published a research paper that tap danced on such thin
ice. Interesting to note that it's finding was so different from that
of the NIST study (which I think we can consider a tad less biased).
Schulte did a
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I know of 7, 3 big box, one in AZ, one in MA, and one in GA.
A storage warehouse in St. Paul
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Subject: RE: ESFR and Smoke Vents
Keeping in mind that this thread turned hard left based on the words, ...
where the sprinkler systems simply did not do their job ... I would say:
First one is not a failure - system was off.
Second one - did the mill have a system
This is exactly the point! You have to go to several countries, and back 30+
years to justify your loss history! All this while not hundreds, but
THOUSANDS of these systems are going in every year! In truth, the failure
rate is only relevant to the Fire rate, not the install rate, but what is
