Fire Fighting Systems

A few years later carbon dioxide was injected into an underground tank containing Jet fuel as a tryout of a fire-fighting system. The tank blew up, killing 18 people who were standing on top of the tank. In this case the discharge may have occurred from the cloud of carbon dioxide particles. 

Safety Systems Fire-Fighting Systems Fire Water Pumps... 

These systems must be inherently reliable and safe, particularly from the point of view of fire protection, and fire-resistant fluids can be used for control systems in order to reduce this risk. Fire-detection and fire-fighting systems should always be provided for any turbogenerator installation. 

The safety and risk of a hydrocarbon facility cannot be assessed solely on the basis of fire fighting systems or past loss histories. The overall risk can only be assessed by defining loss scenarios and an understanding of the risk philosophy adopted by senior management. 

Any areas which have flammable liquids are equipped with a foam fire fighting system. The foam system is activated by fusible links or manually. The fire truck has a foam eductor system which can be used to extinguish flammable liquid, or Class II fires. The foam is educted out of five gallon buckets and mixed with the water stream in the eductor. 

Sprinkler and Halon systems are usually ceiling-mounted, fixed fire-fighting systems. One releases a deluge of water, the other a suppressive gas. Halon systems, which use a gas with the vendor name of Halon, are being phased out because Halon gases are damaging to the ozone layer. 

Protection against fire can be obtained by all the means used for explosions and also by typical fire-fighting systems using appropriate extinguishers. The following methods may be applied ... 

The application of any fire-fighting systems requires that the dust should not be disturbed into a cloud because burning material is present and may cause an explosion. 

Design (EEED) diagrams, equipment data/specification sheets etc. Prepare plot, equipment and pipe layout drawings Request quotations for equipment, construction, instrumentation, electrical work etc. Prepare drawings of control room, shelter, plant lighting etc. Design fire-fighting system... 

Fire fighting system Facility s emergency handling systems... 

Details of other fire fighting system such as fire extinguishers... 

The plant managements must provide a very effective fire fighting system for the... 

Fuel tanks and gas lines must have provision of fire fighting systems, CO2 cylinders, dry chemical powder cylinders, and water sprinklers for cooling them. 

Fire at sulphur yard or melters. Plant area and surroundings will be heavily polluted by SO2 gas Do not allow smoking in this area provision of fire fighting system Ban smoking strictly check operation of fire fighting system regularly... 

Safety audits shall also include personal safety items, safety showers, eyewash fountains, dedicated overhead water tanks, and fire fighting systems,... 

The station fire fighting system is not placed in a safety class (or it is in Class 4) as it is considered that the specific industrial standards in force already offer sufficient guarantee by themselves if needed. 

The temperature produced by the arc is very high (around 10,000 - 20,000 K). Therefore it only takes a few milliseconds to melt the materials installed on switchgear. If the switchgear does not have a fire fighting system and the failure continues to be powered by the generator, the fire may spread to the rest of the panels [ABB]. 

Managements must consider these as a very essential system of the plant. Following should be carefully looked into while installing a fire fighting system (FFS), as proper compliance can reduce the premium to be paid to the insurance company besides meeting instructions from the statutory authorities like factory irrspectors, electrical inspectors etc. This investment is necessary for safety ofpersonnel and plant. 

Fixed fire fighting systems have the advantages that they can ... 

BS EN 12259 Fixed fire fighting systems (4 parts), BSI, London... 

BS EN 12416 Fixed fire fighting systems. Powder systems... 

BS ISO 14520 - Part 1 2000, Gaseous fire fighting systems Physical properties and systems design, British Standards Institution, London, 2000... 

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