Determining the Capacity of Water Tank for Fire Fighting!
Determining the Capacity of Water Tank for Fire Fighting!
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How do i go about determining the capacity of a water tank dedicated for firefighting in a 65 MW HFO thermal power plant using NFPA stds? Kindly detail the steps and relevant stds for me. Is there a rule of thumb i can use here?
Chris-Uganda
Chris-Uganda





RE: Determining the Capacity of Water Tank for Fire Fighting!
Travis Mack
MFP Design, LLC
www.mfpdesign.com
RE: Determining the Capacity of Water Tank for Fire Fighting!
If your brief is just to use NFPA, you would need to have discussions with the stakeholders (owner, AHJ, insurer, fire protection consultant if there is one) to work out what tank size you should use.
As a starting point you could use the IFC as a guide.
RE: Determining the Capacity of Water Tank for Fire Fighting!
Basically it says:
- 500gpm for 2 hrs plus the design scenario systems demand (i.e fixed or mobile systems like sprinklers, deluge systems, foam equipment, monitors, etc. involved in a reasonable design fire scenario with simultaneous water demand with their respective design duration).
- The 850 does not tell if the mobile equipment should be included or not in the 500gpms
- This will give a design water flow and a water reserve volume. The water reserve design volume should be replenished on 8 hrs or less.
If possible consider more water for long fire combat operations, cooling or after fire washing up.
RE: Determining the Capacity of Water Tank for Fire Fighting!
RE: Determining the Capacity of Water Tank for Fire Fighting!
RE: Determining the Capacity of Water Tank for Fire Fighting!
RE: Determining the Capacity of Water Tank for Fire Fighting!
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