Can a sprinkler design do anything about it other than attempt to survive the blast and remain functional?
Allan Seidel St. Louis, MO On Nov 28, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Dave Phelan wrote: > > Nicky, > > Take this for what it is worth as I am certainly NOT an engineer or > chemist > ... > > I just attended a wonderful one day open house program at the FM Fire > Research Center in Rhode Island USA and among the various things they > demonstrated to us was a dust explosion. Quite an impressive > fireball and > shockwave was had by all .... > > The fuel was about 1 pound of phenolic resin dust which meant > nothing to me > that day except it was amazing to experience from 50 feet away > behind a > shield. So if you were to ask me .... I'd say for absolute certain > it is a > hazardous dust and worthy of special engineering all around, not just > sprinkler design. > > Good luck. > > Dave Phelan > An AHJ in NJ > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > > For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > > To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
