Fire Sprinkler Capacity

Although historically only used in factories and large commercial buildings systems for homes and small buildings are now available at a cost effective price.

Fire sprinkler capacity.

Select the type of pipe used and enter the approximate length of pipe for each pipe size in the system or portion of a system you re evaluating. Designers rely on mathematical analysis of pipes capacity to distribute water to fire sprinkler heads. The sprinkler s maximum distance from walls correlates with these spacing requirements. Record it in the psi box.

Record this number in the gpm box. A fire sprinkler or sprinkler head is the component of a fire sprinkler system that discharges water when the effects of a fire have been detected such as when a predetermined temperature has been exceeded. As the maximum spacing between sprinklers increases so does the maximum allowable distance from walls. Fire sprinklers are extensively used worldwide with over 40 million sprinkler heads fitted each year.

Fire sprinkler standpipe systems. Using the system design capacity chart on this page locate the three numbers you just recorded to determine the sprinkler system design capacity in gallons per minute gpm. I created this when looking at whether i break the 5 gallon volume threshold for portions of wet sprinkler systems bottom legs of standpipes or. Next locate your system s static pressure and move down that column and find the system s working pressure.