See the Chemical Safety Board report concerning the fire at West Pharmaceutical Services, January 29, 2003
Website: http://www.csb.gov/assets/document/West_Digest.pdf or the Imperial Sugar refinery explosion on February 8, 2008 that killed 6 and injured 42 Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Georgia_sugar_refinery_explosion Per the CSB: There were 281 combustible dust incidents between 1980 and 2005 that led to the deaths of 119 workers, injured 718. Meticulous housekeeping and construction designs that limit the accumulation of dust and that aid in dust/powder being easily cleaned are critical. Captain Frank J. Herrick City Of Leawood Fire Department 14801 Mission Road Leawood, Ks. 66224-9560 Office: 913.681.6788 x 26 Fax: 913.681.2399 Fire Sprinklers Save Lives, Property, the Environment, and Water - Protect what you value most! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of å... .... Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 2:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Trash Recycling plant - Plastics, dust As one approximation: assume it is all seat cushions, expanded, uncartoned, exposed Group A plastics solid piled to ____ (fill in your estimate here). If there is more than an 1/8 inch of dust, no need to go out and measure that 1/8th, just providing a rough picture for coverage over areas exceeding the design area...then yes the fire hazard warrants upping the design area. However, the warrant is issued by FM. 2010 NFPA 13 Section 5.4.1 says good to go with EH-1. -- Scot Deal Excelsior Fire On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Art Tiroly <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am working on a proposed trash recycling plant. Automobile trash from a > hammer mill type crusher arrives in large dump trucks. All steel has been > removed by magnets. This is mostly auto waste with a variety of > combustibles: plastic, rubber, foam seats, carpeting, door panels, fiber > board, wiring, etc. Non-ferrous metal will be recovered in this recycling > system. > The dust from the operation is combustible. The large piles of incoming and > outgoing combustible waste in the shed is a concern. > I think that with combustible materials drives this into Ex.HAZ. group 1 > and > not OH2 and with larger areas of application. > I am waiting for pictures from the pilot plant. > Any thoughts and questions would be appreciated. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20110824/0633ea14/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
