Hello Steve, Titanium piping and fittings, Bronze valves. Those seem to stand up the best here on the coast to corrosion. No I have not looked for titanium pipe.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 10:30:37 PM, you wrote: > I have a client that wants a site-wide Class 2 standpipe system at his > shipyard (which is on an island) for fire brigade response to fires on site > or on one of the many piers in a bay that the site sits adjacent to. The > problem is that there is no public water supply and he wants to use a > vertical turbine pump in the bay to supply saltwater for the system. This > seems like a corrosion nightmare. Even with plastic pipe underground for > most of the system, things like valves, the fire pump, and some of the > exposed piping on the piers would need to be metal. Does anyone have any > good advice for designing a system like this? > Thank you very much, > Steve Kowkabany, P.E. > Fire Protection Engineer > Neptune Fire Protection Engineering LLC > 216 Seagate Avenue Unit B > Neptune Beach, FL 32266 > 904-652-4200 Phone > 904-212-0868 Fax > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > To Unsubscribe, send an email > to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) -- Best regards, Charles Thurston Coastal mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
