Despite recycling efforts, municipal waste (I think) remains largely paper with wood and plastics interspersed. I would expect fires in transfers station piles to behave similarly to baled waste paper fires, with added heat release from the plastics.
On a facility like this a number of years back, we married the requirements of FM data Sheet 8-22 on baled waste paper storage with the requirements of class IV solid pile storage (or maybe we used plastics?). Can't recall the details, as they were left behind at a previous employer - but that was the concept. Mark A. Sornsin, P.E. | Karges-Faulconbridge, Inc. | Fire Protection Engineer | Fargo, ND | direct: 701.552.9905 | mobile: 701.371.5759 | http://www.kfiengineers.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd Williams Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 8:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Trash Transfer Station That was my initiating and there was no conclusion posted. In my case I had a cascading pile about 12-15 ft high of Class IV (based on observation from existing facility). I was considering adjusting the requirements for a pile of wood chips (Class III) to Class IV. >From a letter I received off Forum, supposedly AFSA has information on loss >history, but I haven't been able to get a hold of it. Todd G Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT 860-535-2080 www.fpdc.com On Aug 9, 2013, at 8:31 AM, "Fire Protection Services" <[email protected]> wrote: > Forum > > > > A few weeks ago there was a post on trash transfer stations. > > Could someone tell me what the conclusion was? EH2 comes to mind but > not sure. > > I have deleted those emails and apparently the monthly email to search > the archives. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkl > er.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
