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Description
This book describes fixed firewater pump installations for industrial facilities from the viewpoint of the end users, fire protection engineers, loss prevention professionals, and those just entering a career in which decisions about fire pump installations must be made. Therefore much background information is given for the necessary requirements and usefulness of a firewater pump and the services that interface with it.
This book's primary objective is the provision of practical information and basic background design principles on the application of fixed pumps for fire fighting purposes at industrial facilities, both onshore and offshore. Where specific details are necessary and pertinent to the discussion they are provided, otherwise, these can be found from the applicable fire codes and engineering practices to be applied to the facility. Experience from the installation of fire pumps in the petroleum and chemical industries, historical data, manufacturers specification sheets and regulatory code requirements have been drawn upon for the preparation of the information in this book.
Readership
Fire protection engineers, loss prevention professionals, and those just entering a career in which decisions about fire pump installations must be made.
Table of Contents
1. Historical Applications of Firewater Pumping Systems
Ancient Water Pumps
Reciprocating Hand and Steam Driven Fire Pumps
Modern Fire Pumps
Rotary Pumps
Invention of Centrifugal Pump
Municipal Water Pumping Plants and Mains
Offshore Facilities
2. Philosophy of Protection
Process Emergency Control Measures
Incident Fuel Consumption
Provide Protective Measures
Passive Systems
Active Systems
Insurance Requirements
Internal Company Policies and Standards
3. Firewater Flow Requirements
Risk Areas
Exposure Cooling Requirements
Fire Control Requirements
Suppression Requirements
Egress Water Sprays
Residual Pressure Requirements
4. Duration of Firewater Supplies
Capability of Public Water Mains
Primary Supplies
Reserve Supplies
5. Sources of Firewater Pump Supply
Seas and Oceans
Rivers, Channels, Ponds and Lakes
Water Wells (Natural Underground Reservoirs)
Manmade Reservoirs (Impounded Supplies)
Storage Tanks
Municipal and Private Firewater Distribution Mains
Specialized Offshore Raw Seawater Systems
Firewater Usage by Other Services
Emergency Water Sources
Water Quality
Enhancements to Fire Fighting Water
Marine Growth
Biocide Injection
Other Marine Growth Control Methods
Future Use, Sources and Development
6. Pump Types and Applications
Centrifugal Pumps
Pump/Impeller Design Relationships
Single and Mult
Details
- No. of pages:
- 247
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © 1998
- Published:
- 31st December 1998
- Imprint:
- William Andrew
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780815517214
- Print ISBN:
- 9780815514282
- Print ISBN:
- 9781455778072
About the author
Dennis P. Nolan
Dr. Dennis P. Nolan has had a long career devoted to risk engineering, fire protection engineering, loss prevention engineering and systems safety engineering. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Business Administration from Berne University, Master of Science degree in Systems Management from Florida Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland. He is a U.S. registered professional engineer in fire protection engineering in the state of California.
He is currently on the Executive Management staff of Saudi Aramco, located in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, as a Loss Prevention Consultant/Chief Fire Prevention Engineer. He covers some of the largest oil and gas facilities in the world. The magnitude of the risks, worldwide sensitivity, and foreign location make this one the highly critical fire risk operations in the world. He has also been associated with Boeing, Lockheed, Marathon Oil Company, and Occidental Petroleum Corporation in various fire protection engineering, risk analysis, and safety roles in several locations in the United States and overseas. As part of his career, he has examined oil production, refining, and marketing facilities under severe conditions and in various unique worldwide locations, including Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and North and South America. His activity in the aerospace field has included engineering support for the NASA Space Shuttle launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center (and for those undertaken at Vandenburg Air Force Base, California) and “classified” national defense systems.
Dr. Nolan has received numerous safety awards and is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, He is the author of many technical papers and professional articles in various international fire safety publications. He has written four other books, Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles for Oil, Gas, Chemical and Relat
Affiliations and Expertise
Loss Prevention Manager and Chief Fire Prevention Engineer, Saudi Aramco