Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion in Fire Protection Systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 377-390
Author(s):  
N. Noël-Hermes ◽  
J.W. Klijnstra
Author(s):  
Asif H. Arastu ◽  
Eugene Tom

Fire Protection water systems are typically piping networks where water is pumped from a low elevation reservoir at atmospheric pressure to higher elevations in the buildings served by the system. Because of this nature of their design, they are prone to water hammers due to water column separation & rejoining. A loss of pressure can lead to void formation at high elevations whose collapse can result in severe water hammer. A damaging water hammer event that occurred at a nuclear power plant (Arastu, et al, 1999) causing a catastrophic valve failure pointed to the need to prevent and mitigate such potential events at other plants. One important aspect of that event is that prior to it, several events of similar magnitude had occurred that did not apparently cause physical damage but degraded the system sufficiently to make it susceptible to damage. This paper discusses the causes of water hammer in Fire Protection Systems at power plants and identifies analysis, prevention, and mitigation strategies. Using a Method Of Characteristics based program, computer simulation results of the application of the mitigative measures are given for three large plant systems to demonstrate the effectiveness of the measures proposed at these plants.


Tehnika ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-392
Author(s):  
Radoje Jevtić

Fire protection and design of fire protection systems present very important engineering tasks in protection of human lives, animals and material properties. Because of its great significance, everything in fire protection and fire protection systems design must be defined by appropriate standards. There are several different standards in use in different countries around the world. Very often, in solvation of different fire protection tasks, there are many questions asked which standard should be used. There are many similarities between standards, but there are also many differences between standards. Also, some standards don't define at all some cases that can be found in fire protection. This paper was written to present solutions for some particular tasks by some valid standards (EN 54, BS, NPB 88-2001, VDE 088-2 and NFPA 72) in fire protection and differences between them in the same cases.


Author(s):  
Brent Gutierrez ◽  
George Antaki

A series of static and shake table tests were conducted on pressurized threaded, brazed and mechanical, i.e., grooved pipe joints, commonly used in fire protection systems. The objective of the tests was to understand the behavior and failure modes of these common types of joints under seismic and static lateral loads. The paper presents the measured loads and deflections of the joints up to the point of failure. It also describes the joints’ static and dynamic failure modes. While this information may be limited it can be used to model the joint flexibility under large lateral loads, determine their capacity, and help understand the leak and rupture characteristics of threaded, brazed and clamped joints.


2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radoje Jevtic

Fire presents the process of uncontrolled combustion that makes material damage and endangers human lives. It is important to know many factors that fire depends on for successful design and realization of fire protection systems. One of the most effective, the most economic and the most reliable ways to determine propagation of potential fire is the use of simulation programmes. In this paper, the usage of the PyroSim 2012 simulator in the potential fire determination was presented. A simulated facility was chosen to be the Electrotechnical school „Nikola Tesla“ in Niš. Key words: fire, simulation, FDS, evacuation


2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-186
Author(s):  
Piotr Turkowski

This work describes the structural fire design process of RC structures with externally bonded reinforcement. First part is based on the calculation method given in EN 1992-1-2 and addresses the question whether the fire protection of externally bonded reinforcement is necessary in every situation? The second part shows what such fire protection should look like and how it should be designed. Moreover, a test procedure for determining the effectiveness of applied fire protection systems to concrete structural members reinforced with FRP, used in Fire Testing Laboratory of Building Research Institute (ITB) is presented.


Author(s):  
Ingeborg Schlosser ◽  
Joachim Böke ◽  
Rainhard Lüttenberg

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Saras Ayu Faradita ◽  
Vinky Rahman

The fire incident in karaoke buildings in Indonesia which claimed many lives has occurred several times. According to the National Academy of Science US, the smoke toxins that come out of the fire disaster cause 50-80% of deaths. Refers to the data, it is necessary to check further about the building material response to fire during a fire incident. Masterpiece Signature Karaoke is a karaoke building that classified as large and magnificent in the city of Medan which has various material so that it is necessary to study the interior material as passive fire protection. The purpose is to find out how to assess the reliability of fire passive protection regard to the interior materials and recommendations or descriptions of right interior material planning using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). This method is efficacious to solve the problem of reliability in using interior materials as passive fire protection in Masterpiece Signature Family KTV Medan building with the results of an Adequate Level of reliability. Then, design recommendations were given for the use of interior materials in karaoke building to improve the reliability results to be better.The results are useful as information for other researchers and karaoke buildings regarding passive fire protection systems at the Masterpiece Signature Family KTV Medan.


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