I am close to letting it go, but only because I have a spreadsheet (that only I could love ;) ) you have it too Roland- the one I sent you about a week after you said Let's take this off forum-- you know- the whole new can of curiosity you opened for me with your " a more meaningful reference for activation time is in regard to the same RHR point on the different fire curves" ? It was the key to defining Combustibility for myself, and the reason I am a totally scatter-brained, very very sick man today- thanks for that ;). Craig, having any luck on finding that hobby for me?
> On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Roland Huggins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
