Our standard for diesel fire pumps is to provide a double-wall fuel tank with leak detection, steel supply and return fuel lines, and of course the connection at the diesel engine is generally a flexible connection provided with the diesel engine from the manufacturer.
Anybody doing anything different? Any particular problems with leaks? I've got a client who is particularly concerned about mitigating fuel leaks, but in my experience there is little reason to be concerned about leaks with this arrangement. The client is asking me to look at using the special Kynar double wall pipe made by Flexworks. I guess the advantage is that you would have less connections because it would bend rather than use fittings (90s), but it looks like it would be more easily-damaged than steel pipe. Anyone have experience with this or something similar? We've also discussed possibly adding a curb below the fuel tank to catch leaks, but what if the leak occurs in the line closer to the diesel engine (outside of the curb)? The curb is useless at that point. I feel like the standard method is pretty effective and that any of this other stuff has seriously diminished return value, but I'd be interested to hear from the audience. -Kyle M _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
