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AquaMist for Machinery Spaces

Introduction

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Application Examples

• Generators
• Turbines
• Transformers
• Engines
• Compressors

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Machinery Spaces: Definitions

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Definitions FM
Machinery Spaces:

• Enclosures with machinery such as internal combustion engines (excluding engine test cells), oil
pumps, oil tanks, fuel filters, generators, transformer vaults, gear boxes, drive shafts, lubrication
skids, diesel engine driven generators, and other similar equipment using liquid hydrocarbon
fuel and/or hydraulic, heat transfer, and lubrication fluids with volatilities less than or equal to
heptane;
• Enclosures with incidental use or storage of hydrocarbon ignitable liquids (also known as
flammable liquids) of not more than two 55 gal (208 L) drums.

Turbine Enclosure:

• Combustion turbines with or without thermal insulation.

FM 5560 Approval Standard for water mist Systems

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Definitions IMO
Machinery Spaces:

• All cargo pump-rooms and machinery spaces of category A and all other spaces
containing propulsion machinery, boilers, oil fuel units, steam and internal combustion
engines, generators and major electrical machinery, oil filling stations, refrigerating,
stabilizing, ventilation and air conditioning machinery and similar spaces and trunks to
such spaces.
• Machinery spaces of category A are those spaces and trunks to such spaces which
contain:
▪ internal combustion machinery used for main propulsion; or
▪ internal combustion machinery used for purposes other than main propulsion where such machinery has in the
aggregate a total power output of not less than 375 kW; or
▪ any oil-fired boiler or fuel oil unit.

IMO 1165 Water based fire extinguishing systems for

machinery spaces and cargo pump rooms

IMO 1387 Local Application

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Definitions
Total flooding systems:
• A system designed to protect all the hazards in an enclosure.

FM 4-2 Water Mist Systems

Local application systems:

• Water mist Systems arranged to discharge on the protected hazard within the
containment or confinement area around a hazard

FM 4-2 Water Mist Systems

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Machinery Spaces: Characteristics

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Enclosure Characteristics

• Class B flammable or combustible liquids

• Flammable liquids under pressure
• Presence of hot surfaces
• Non-tight enclosures
• Ventilated enclosures
• Controlled Access

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Fire Characteristics

• Pool and spray fire

• Fast growing fire
• High heat release
• Great amount of decomposition products

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System Characteristics
Deluge

• Class B
• Hydro-Carbon, high heat release
• Open Nozzles
• All nozzles discharge simultaneously
• Enclosure design area / Localized
discharge
• Enclosure volume and ventilation key
design variables

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Machinery Spaces: Objectives

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Objectives
• Fire Extinguishment “Complete elimination of any flaming or
smouldering fire”
BS8489-1 Design and installation of industrial and
commercial water mist systems

• “ … Fires above 500 kW can be expected to be extinguished in a

260 m3 … 2 MW fires are considered harmful to machinery and
enclosures …”
FM Global Resource Collection 4-2

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Objectives

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Machinery Spaces: Advantages of Water Mist

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Advantages of Water Mist
• Environmentally friendly
• Safe for people
• Can be activated instantaneously
• Enclosure cooling
• Minimize Water Damage
• No decomposition by-products generated
• Enclosure Integrity
▪ No door fan test needed
▪ No need of leakage sealing

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Advantages of Water Mist

Additionally:

• Accordingly to FM Data Sheet 5-4: transformers room fire resistance

construction rating can be reduced from 3 hours to 1 hour if enclosure is
protected with a water mist system.

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International Protocols
Total Flooding:

▪ FM 5560/5580
▪ IMO 1165
▪ UL2167

Local Application:

▪ IMO 1387 – Need Primary protection back-up when used in land base

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AquaMist Approvals Overview

AquaMist AquaMist AquaMist

ULF FOG Sonic
FM 5560/5580
IMO 1165
IMO 1387 (LA)
UL 2167

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