Without reviewing the FM information, I thought some of the plastic pallet issues go away in NFPA 13 if the K > 16.8 or they are proven equivalent to wood. Could this be a similar assumption on the FM side?
David Smith | Deputy Fire Marshal CITY OF VANCOUVER Fire Department P.O. Box 1995 . Vancouver, WA 98668-1995 P: 360.487.7240| F: 360.487.7244| WA Relay: 711 www.cityofvancouver.us -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Young Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 6:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Plastic Pallets for FM design Fellow forumites, I'm doing a flammable liquids storage area design under FM 7-29, and I cannot find any specific information on the need (or not) to increase the design requirements if plastic pallets are used. I'm storing an ignitable liquid with a flash point <200°F in 55 gallon relieving-style metal drums on-end in a palletized configuration. I'm using Table 7 from 7-29 for this. I did a search for plastic pallets in both 7-29 and 2-0 but found no references to having to increase the design for this. 7-29 does list some increases for the use of plastic pallets, but these only pertain atypical ignitable liquids, which mine does not fall under. I didn't find anything from searching 2-0 either. Did I skip something basic here, or does FM not really care about plastic pallets? Thanks for any assistance. Benjamin Young -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20130408/e31351e9/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
