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>
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