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Head pipe or main pipe location? 1

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juliomendez

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I´m working in a gas plant design and a co-worker is working with the fire line location, he wants to place the fire pipes in the pipe rack with other pipes.
I was thinking that this piping arrange is not the most secure, because if I have an explosion in a tank, the explosion will destroy the pipe line that is connected to the tanks, so, in this case the pipe rack ( with the fire pipes) will fail.

Is there any paragraph in NFPA 13, NFPA 15 or wich ever NFPA where define the best way to locate the pipes?
 
juliomendez,
See NFPA 13,Section 9.1 and NFPA 15,
Section 6.3.2 which refers back to NFPA 13.
 
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