Typical ceiling demand - no reductio fro in-racks

Yes on balancing the in-rack design

There is an option not to balance the in-rack with the ceiling IF you increase 
the number of in-racks to include face sprinklers AND double the flow for the 
in-racks to 60 gpm/sprinkler

Roland Huggins, PE - Senior VP Engineering
American Fire Sprinkler Assn.    
Dallas, TX
http://www.firesprinkler.org <http://www.firesprinkler.org/>

Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives




> On Aug 2, 2017, at 5:18 AM, Dewayne Martinez <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> NFPA 13 (16ed) sections 16.1.6.6 and 16.1.6.8
>  
> I have a customer that installed solid shelve racks in part of a warehouse 
> protected with ESFR sprinklers.  NFPA 2016 allows this provided we follow 
> section 16.1.6.  What overhead density would I use for the ESFR sprinklers?  
> Is 16.1.6.8 saying that I should use the same overhead density as the 
> original design (K14 @ 50psi) balanced with the in rack sprinklers?    
> Does 16.1.6.6 allow a calculation to be run only for the demand of the in 
> rack sprinklers without the overhead system?
> Thanks,
> Dewayne
> _______________________________________________
> Sprinklerforum mailing list
> [email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org 
> <http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org>
_______________________________________________
Sprinklerforum mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org

Reply via email to