Peanut Butter!

[SprinklerDesigner2]

I have a warehouse for storage of peanut butter. Peter Pan to be specific.

Peanut butter is in plastic jars like you see on the grocery shelves. Jars are on wooden pallets that are band wrapped with a layer of cardboard at the top. Pallets are in conventional back-to-back racks having a top of storage height of 22'.

Sprinklers.

I want to say it is a Class IV commodity but am not sure.

 

[stookeyfpe]

I'll assume the peanut butter has < 50% oil and that the packaging is HD polyethylene. Class III based on Table A.5.6.3 of the 2002 NFPA 13 and assuming the stored product is similar to margarine. Its a food product so unless it has a high volume of oil, I have generally classified these as Class III commodities.

 

[SprinklerDesigner2]

Thanks!

Margarine
- Up to 50 percent oil (in paper or plastic containers)
Class III
- Between 50 percent and 80 percent oil (in any packaging)
Group A plastics

Now all I have to do is find out the oil content but I am covered anyway as I bid the project as a Group A plastic. I remember high school chemistry when we burned a peanut to determine the calories. Peanuts burn better then you might think.