Friday, 7 November 2014

Overview Of Fire Sprinkler Hydraulic Calculations

By Young Lindsay


Water-sprinkler systems appeared during the end of XIX century. Favorable results of protection forced inventors to pay serious attention to this kind of firefighting. Before the revolution of liability insurance, companies recognized the impact of fire sprinkler hydraulic calculations in factories to reduce losses.

A fire sprinkler is a device for extinguishing fires. Consists of an armature, with a pipe connected to a water pipe pressure. The pipe is closed with a cover subject by a glass capsule filled with a liquid whose boiling point is at a certain temperature (temperature trigger) which is subject against a disperser. When a fire occurs, the liquid boils and the steam breaks the capsule; the lid bounces, exits the water and crashes into the disperser sprinkling the burned area.

There are other automatic, instead of the capsule are connected to a fire detector which sends an automatic valve that opens when the detector knows of a fire. When quenched, the switch closes the valve and, if applicable, would open again if the fire is revived. Systems differ from sprinklers sprayed water on the element that disperses the water these last is a mouthpiece designed to offer an angle of fog.

Hence the name sprayed, which varies depending on the application that you want to give the system sprinkler. The most common use of these sprinkler-systems is the cooling of walls of a storage tank of flammable liquids because they are easier and less costly to maintain than a system of sprinklers, which moreover do not correspond to a pattern of dispersal water required by such facilities.

Thermo-sensitive bulb. The most common sprinkler glass bulb holds the cap in place and containing therein a liquid that does not fill the bulb, leaving a gap. When heat from a fire acts on bulb, the liquid boils and vapor pressure breaks the glass stopper and then releases the pressurized water contained pipe network, download and poured over the baffle forming a jet sprayed water mist.

The response time of these systems shall not exceed 300 seconds for low-temperature sprinklers (57 and 68 degrees C) and 600 seconds for the highest-temperature sprinklers. In 1806, an automatic fire extinguishing installation was patented by Englishman John Carey. He proposed to build in the protected area network of pipelines from the water head tank, and on the network to install sprinklers with small holes.

In protected space stretching combustible cord, which when blown open locks that hold the valve, the valve is released and the water flowed to a sprinkler. The device consisted of a cylindrical sealed tanks of about 95 tys.litrov system and 10-inch (250 mm) of the distribution of the aqueduct, covering all parts of the theater. Series of pipes of smaller diameter departed from the distribution pipes and were imbued with a number of half an inch (13 mm) holes through which poured water in case of fire. But the system was not automatic.

First installation started in late XIX century, after the Englishman Stuart Harrison in 1864, has developed a sprinklers. Further development of sprinkler systems associated with the names of Americans Henry Parmelee and Frederick Grinnell. By 1882 in the United States for 200 enterprises was established about 200 thousand. Sprinkler-design Parmelee. During the same year in England the first such installation was witnessed.




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