- Author
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Underwriters Laboratories, Incorporated
- Title
- Storage of Palletized Isopropyl Alcohol. Technical Report.
- Coporate
- Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., Northbrook, IL
- Sponsor
- HSB Industrial Risk Insurers, Hartford, CT
- Report
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Technical Report; Project 96NK33044; NC1838
April 18, 1997
95 p.
- Keywords
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storage
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pallet storage
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industrial plants
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fire tests
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sprinklers
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test facilities
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sprinkler systems
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flammable liquids
- Identifiers
- Industrial Risk Insurers (IRI); isoproply alcohol (IPA)
- Abstract
- A series of eight fire tests were conducted to evaluate the level of protection required to control a fire in double row rack storage of palletized isopropyl alcohol in high density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic containers. The containers ranged in capacity from pint to gallon and were stored in corrugated cardboard cartons on hardwood pallets. the total amount of isopropyl alcohol used in each fire test ranged from 240 gallons to 1560 gallons. The first seven fire tests were conducted in a double row rack storage array with barriers and in-rack sprinklers. The last test was conducted in a palletized storage array under the protection of the ceiling sprinklers only. Fire Test No. 1 through Fire Test No. 6 were ignited with two gallons of alcohol in two 2 ft. x 2 ft. x .75 in. steel pans located halfway within the plane of the center south face at the floor. Fire Test No. 7 utilized four cotton cellulose ignitors each measuring 3 in. long by 3 in. in diameter with 4 oz. of gasoline arranged around a point at the floor in the center of the south face. Fire Test No. 8 utilized a 6 in. long by 3 in. in diameter cotton cellulose ignitor with 8 oz. of gasoline at a point centered within the south flue space. The sole purpose of this investigation was to develop test data relative to the protection of mixed rack storage of palletized water miscible flammable liquids in plastic containers using a wet pipe ceiling and in-rack sprinkler systems.