FIRE CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND METHODS

SIL Rating Fire Protection Equipment

SIL's (Safety Integrity Levels) are used by IEC 61508:1998 [1] to characterise the required functional safety of computer control systems. For example, SIL 4, the highest rating is for fly by wire aircraft and weapons systems and track circuited train signalling systems while SIL 2 is typical of certain Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). Fire control panels have not been SIL rated to date ev...

Radio Monitoring - Problems, Methods and Equipment

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Equipment Specifications and Methods for Dynamic Testing

Both the new ASAE S518 standard (2) and the revised draft international standard DIS/ISO 5707 (3) incorporate performance standards for vacuum stability in milking systems. New NMC procedures for system evaluation include dynamic tests for vacuum stability to demonstrate the adequacy of new or existing milking systems (7) . Such dynamic (i.e. "milking-time") tests require the use of test instru...

Modelling Temperature Evolution in Equipment Engulfed in a Pool-fire

A method is presented to calculate the incident radiant heat flux and the temperatures reached on any point of a tank surface when this tank is engulfed in a pool-fire during the fire transitory state (developing phase). 1he method used to calculate the radiant heat flux on the cylinder is based on a three-dimensional formulation and uses the definition of a surface to establish the flame conto...

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