Document Responsibility: Loss Prevention Issue Date: 15 March 2006 Next Planned Update: 15 March 2007

SAES-B-017 Fire Water System Design

Fire Water System: A fire water system is a piping system for distributing fire water to Saudi Aramco facilities within the scope of this Standard. It includes a supply source, storage, pump suction piping, fire water pumps, jockey pumps, discharge piping, fire water distribution piping, branch piping, associated fixed fire protection equipment, valves, and fittings. Flammable Liquid: A liquid that has a flash point equal to or less than 54C (130F). Residual Pressure: Pressure of water at a specific flowing condition. Requirements for the minimum residual pressure are given in Section 5.8. Risk Area: A hypothetical fire protection area in a process facility. It is used for the purposes of sizing fire water systems and to prevent spread of fire from one area to another. See Section 5. For the purposes of defining process risk areas only, a process risk area facility shall include any facility where hydrocarbons are produced, processed, stored, or loaded, with the exceptions of wellsites and company gas stations. Otherwise, bulk plants and fuel terminals are considered nonprocess areas and have some specialized requirements, as treated in Section 13 and in SAES-B-070. RTR Pipe: Glass-fiber-reinforced thermosetting resin pipe, also called RTRP or fiberglass pipe. 5 General System Design This section deals with general design requirements of fire water systems serving process facilities, residential areas, and support facilities. Sections 5.1 through 5.6 cover "process risk areas". The rest of Section 5 is generally applicable to all Saudi Aramco fire water systems. 5.1 Process Areas All process facilities to be served by a fire water system shall be segregated into risk areas for the purposes of fire water system design. The following applies to process areas with vessels and equipment which contain flammable or combustible liquids or combustible gases: a. b. Each shall be a logically defined area that may be described in terms of equipment or buildings. The minimum distance between equipment and vessels in one risk area and equipment, vessels, or drainage swales in other risk areas shall be 15 m (50 ft). There shall be clear fire vehicle access to at least two opposite sides of a risk area. Road width shall be in accordance with SAES-B-055.

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