Biodiesel is vegetable oil, and likely a Class IIIB combustible liquid. You should question the classification considering that the flash point of vegetable oil is very high. The following is from an FM document: "The closed cup flash point of the tested vegetable oil was 450°F (232°C)"
Even if this was an oil-cooking facility the density would only be 0.25 gpm/sf over 3,000 sq ft (per FM standard on oil cooking equipment). Paul J. Pinigis, P.E. Chief Life Safety Engineer -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Williams - work Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Biodiesel mfg I have been asked to look at some criteria for a small (2500 sqft) biodiesel processing facility. Someone (I'm not sure who) defined this as a Class !B flammable liquid and called for a 0.40 gpm/sqft density over the entire building area. While I'm not necessarily challenging this, I cannot find anything to verify it. NFPA 13 and 30 seem to focus more on storage than processing. Has anyone else run into this yet? Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut 860-535-2080 www.fpdc.com _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
