We all love to define things in a quantified and fixed manner but if only it where as simple as balancing the volume water discharged and the quantity of fuel available. This is accurate in a very broad and general sense but the devil is in the details. The PhD’s at NIST have been beating on this issue for decades and we still don’t have the answer.
Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering American Fire Sprinkler Assn. --- Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives Dallas, TX http://www.firesprinkler.org On Mar 11, 2014, at 6:11 AM, Brad Casterline <[email protected]> wrote: > I am hoping we can talk about something else soon. It is very well known how > much heat it takes to vaporize how much water- when I wonder why .1 gpm/s.f., > knowing the heat of combustion for the type of combustibles in LH & OH is > 13,100 kJ/kg of O2 consumed, I get ~5 lbs/s.f. Hospitals are ~6lb/s.f., > meaning, I presume, there is a dab of OHI in ther _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
