We have a situation where half of a building is exposed expanded plastics on rack storage and the other half is storage on pallets of exposed expanded plastics. With the pump we need the pipe is large on the rack side (8" mains and 3" branchlines) on the pallet storage its 6" mains and I can get down to 1.5" branch lines but it jacks the velocity up to around 30-35 in the 1.5" pipe. I don't believe NFPA has a standard on velocities in pipes but I know a lot of cities don't allow over 20 ft. per second. What's a good bench mark not to go above? I feel a Brad explanation coming with lots of math...
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