Standards & Fire Testing

for water mist fire p

protection systems
y

PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5

Antonio Eire
aeire@marioffspain.com
Marioff Group Madrid – February, 25, 2011 HI-FOG® fire testing
and approvals
 BASICS
Some repetition to explain why water mist standardization
is so different than sprinkler / gas standardization

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 WATER MIST
A water spray for which the Dv0.99, for the flow –weighted cumulative volumetric
distribution of water droplets,
droplets is less than 1000 microns at the minimum design
operating pressure of the water mist nozzle

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 HOW MUCH IS ONE LITER OF WATER

Droplet size Number of Surface area

(mm) droplets (m2)

10 1 900 0.6

1 1 900 000 6

01
0.1 1 900 000 000 60

0.01 1 900 000 000 000 600

0.1 x 1000 x 10 x

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 FACTORS AFFECTING THE SUPPRESSION
EFFICIENCY OF WATER MIST
- Drop size distribution
- Penetration
P t ti
- Mass flow rate

WATER MIST IS NOT A GENERIC EXTINGUISHANT !

High pressure water mist of manufacturer A is not the same as
high
g ppressure water mist of manufacturer B

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 PERFORMANCE-BASED APPROACH
ALL critical water mist system design and installation parameters
are defined in full-scale fire tests
- Nozzle type
- Operating pressure
- Spacing
- Installation height
- Flow rate
- Protection volume

Marioff has done

thousands of full
scale fire tests

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 Marioff Corporation

Marioff is the global leader in water mist

fire protection systems

ƒ Company founded 1985

ƒ HI-FOG® launched 1991

Head office and production facilities in

Finland

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 Marioff Group companies
ƒ Marioff Corporation
p Oy,
y Finland
ƒ Marioff Skandinavien AB, Sweden
ƒ Marioff Ltd., UK
ƒ Marioff GmbH, Germany
ƒ Marioff S.r.l., Italy
ƒ Marioff HI
HI-FOG
FOG S.A.U.,
S A U Spain
ƒ Marioff SAS, France
ƒ Marioff Asia ((Shanghai,
g China))
ƒ Marioff Inc., USA & Canada

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 Marioff Group

Part of UTC Fire & Security (UTC F&S) business unit since 2007

ƒ USD 5,74 billion sales

ƒ 43.000 employees
ƒ Operating in 250 locations in 43 countries

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 Gl b l presence
Global

Marioff office
Marioff distributor
UTC Fire & Security

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 UTC Fire & Security
• Part of United Technologies Corporation (UTC Group)

• USD 54,8 billion sales

• 225.600 employees
• Operating in 4,000 locations in 70 countries

Otis Carrier Pratt & Whitney Sikorsky Hamilton Sundstrand

Elevator, escalators Heating, air -conditioning Aircraft engines Helicopters Aerospace systems

UTC Fire & Security UTC Power

Fire safety, security solutions Power systems, fuel cells

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 WATER MIST STANDARDS

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 1.1* Scope.
This standard contains the minimum
requirements for the design
design,
installation, maintenance, and
testing of water mist fire protection
systems This standard does not
systems.
provide definitive fire performance
criteria, nor does it offer specific
guidance on how to design a
system to control, suppress, or
extinguish a fire. Reliance is placed
on the procurement and installation
of listed water mist equipment or
systems that have demonstrated
performance in fire tests as p
p part of a
listing process.

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 1 Scope
… The document is not intended to be used as
au universal
e sa des
design
g manual
a ua o of watermist...
ae s
In the absence of a generalized design method,
it is the intent of this document that
watermist systems are full-scale
full scale fire tested
and its system component evaluations are
conducted by qualified testing laboratories.
The full system acceptance requires the
relevant fire test report, the component test
report(s) as well as manufacturer’s design,
installation, operation and maintenance
manual for the application.

EN 12845 Fixed firefighting systems – Automatic sprinkler systems

– Design, installation and maintenance
CEA 4001 Sprinkler Systems – Planning and installation

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 Reality in EU…
UK – British Standards Institution
Germany – VdS / TÜV
France – CNPP / Centre Scientifiqueq et Technique
q du
Bâtiment

… and outside EU & USA

Russia – VNIIPO / GOST (on-going standardisation ???)
China – on-going standardisation
Australia – AS 4587 (based on NFPA 750)
India – IS 15519 (based on NFPA 750)

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 MARINE WORLD IS GLOBAL
SOLAS CONSOLIDATED EDITION EDITION, 2009
(International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended)

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 FIRE TESTING

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 FIRE TESTING

Standard testing

Type approval

Application-specific testing

Marioff historyy of fire testing

g Type / Case-by-case
Case by case approval
= history of standard
development Project-specific testing

Case-by-case / Project-specific approval

Water mist standardisation
= standardising fire tests Garage testing

Wild market

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 MARINE FIRE TEST STANDARDS

Application Standard

Machinery space / compartment protection MSC/Circ.1165

Machinery space / local protection MSC/Circ.913

Ro-ro spaces MSC.1/Circ.1272

Res.MSC.265
R MSC 265
Accommodation, public spaces & service areas
(Res.A.800)

Cabin balconies MSC 1/Circ 1268

MSC.1/Circ.1268

Deep-fat fryers ISO 15371

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 Machinery spaces
Compartment
C t t protection
t ti
MSC/Circ.1165
- Exposed and concealed spray fires
- Exposed and concealed pool fires
- Flowing fires and combinations
- Diesel oil, heptane, lubrication oil

Local protection
MSC/Circ.913
- Exposed spray fires
- Diesel oil

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 Ro-ro spaces
MSC.1/Circ.1272

Ceiling height 5 m / truck

1. Ignition under one nozzle
2. Ignition between two nozzles
3 Ignition between four nozzles
3.

Ceiling height 2.5 m / passenger vehicle

1. Ignition under one nozzle
2. Ignition between two nozzles
3. Ignition between four nozzles

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 Accommodation areas
Res.MSC.265 (Res.A.800)

Cabin & corridor

1. Ignition in a lower bunk bed
2. Ignition in an upper bunk bed
3 Arsonist test
3.
4. Corridor: Ignition under one sprinkler
5. Corridor: Ignition between two sprinklers
6 Di
6. Disabled
bl d cabin
bi sprinkler
i kl

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 Public spaces
S3
Res.MSC.265 (Res.A.800)

S1
Ceiling height 2.5 m & 5 m

Open area
1. Ignition under one sprinkler S2

2. Ignition between two sprinklers

3. Ignition between four sprinklers
4 Disabled sprinkler
4.

Corner
5. Normal operation

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 Service areas
Res.MSC.265 (Res.A.800)

Ceiling height 2.5 m

1. Ignition under one sprinkler

2. Ignition
g between two sprinklers
p
3. Ignition between four sprinklers

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 Cabin balconies
MSC.1/Circ.1268

- Freeburn
- Igntion without wind
- Ignition with wind 5 m/s

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 Deep-fat fryers
ISO 15371
- Extinguishing test
- Splashing
p g test

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 INSTALLATION GUIDELINES / DIOM MANUALS

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 TYPE APPROVALS
THANK YOU !

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 LAND FIRE TEST STANDARDS
There is
Th i no globally
l b ll acknowledged
k l d d authority
th it tto sett requirements
i t tto
be followed internationally.
Factory Mutual (FM, USA), Underwriters Laboratories (UL, USA)
and VdS (Germany) are widely recognized authorities involved in
water mist standardization.

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 LAND FIRE TEST STANDARDS
Application / Class B Authority
Machinery space / compartment protection FM 5560 (CEN)
Machinery space / local protection FM 5560
Industrial fryers FM 5560
Deep fat fryers
Deep-fat (CEN)
Wet benches FM 5560

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 LAND FIRE TEST STANDARDS

Application / Class A Authority

Residential UL 2167
EUR LH & OH1 / US LH VdS (CEN), FM 5560, UL 2167
EUR OH2 (parking garages) / US OH1 VdS, UL 2167
EUR OH3 (shopping malls) / US OH2 VdS, UL 2167
Computer room subfloors / raised floors VdS, FM 5560
C bl ttunnels
Cable l VdS (CEN)
European hazard classification
LH certain areas in schools and offices, prisons
OH1 hospitals, hotels, libraries, restaurants, schools, offices, concrete factories...
OH2 museums, laundries, car parks, bisquit factories, breweries, metal factories…
OH3 paper factories, cable factories, plastic factories, mills, electronics factories…
OH4 theatres, concert halls, cigarette factories, match factories...

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 OH1 / Offices (CEN/TS 14972, VdS)

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 OH2 / Parking garages / VdS

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 OH3 / Archives, shopping malls / VdS

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 US OH1 / UL 2167

Pass
Value
criteria
Max ceiling
a <540°C
temp
Activated
b 1000 ft2
nozzle area
Nozzle
% damage
c <50%
50%
to boxes
b
# of outer
faces
d 0
damaged
(REMOVED)
Dummy
e nozzle No
activate

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 Cable tunnels, concealed spaces with cables / VdS 2498

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 INSTALLATION GUIDELINES / DIOM MANUALS

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 TYPE APPROVALS

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 Aircraft hangars

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 A86 tunnel / Paris

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 M30 tunnel / Madrid

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 INSTALLATION GUIDELINES /
DIOM MANUALS, Fire Test Summaries

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 CURRENT CODE & STANDARD RELATED ACTIVITIES

Fire tests / Technical issues Æ Regulatory affairs

(to get water mist accepted as an acknowledged alternative

in all relevant codes, regulations & guidelines)

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 Regulatory Affairs – North America

Code Re
Revision
ision Proposals to NFPA for the follo
following
ing Standards
Standards:
• NFPA 13 Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems
• NFPA 13D Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems in One and Two Family Dwellings &
Manuf. Homes
• NFPA 13R St d d for
Standard f the
th Installation
I t ll ti off Sprinkler
S i kl Systems
S t in
i Residential
R id ti l OOccupancies
i up tto andd
including 4 Stories
• NFPA 20 Standard for the Installation of Stationary Pumps for Fire Protection
• NFPA 72 National Alarm & Signalling Code
• NFPA 110 E
Emergency Standby
St db P Power S Systems
t
• NFPA 111 Stored Electrical Energy and Emergency and Standby Power Systems
• NFPA 130 Fixed Guideway Transit and Passenger Rail Systems

Oth C
Other Codes
d off iinterest
t t and/or
d/ with
ith action
ti ititems
• NFPA 3 Standard for the Commissioning and Integrated Testing of Fire Protection Life Safety
Systems
• NFPA 101 Life Safety Code
• NFPA 225
22 Model Manufactured
f Home Installation Standard
S
• NFPA 409 Standard on Aircraft Hangars
• NFPA 501 Standard on Manufactured Housing
• NFPA 502 Standard for Road Tunnels, Bridges, and other Limited Access Highways
• NFPA 909 C d ffor th
Code the P
Protection
t ti off C
Cultural
lt l RResources

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 Regulatory Affairs – Europe

Codes with
ith on
on-going
going actions:
actions

• CEN/TS 14972 Fixed firefighting systems – Watermist systems - Design and installation
• EN 45545 Fire protection of railway vehicles

Regulatory Affairs – China

Codes with on-going actions:

• “Technical Appraisal Code of Water Mist Fire Protection Equipment”

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 Thank you

aeire@marioffspain.com
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