MAKING PIPING SYSTEMS FIRE-SAFE - SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR PREVENTING A DISASTER

This paper discusses the availability of critical fire-safe components for Navy shipboard piping systems and provides some simple solutions which, if implemented, could prevent a disaster. Discussion is provided on how a fire starts and how it reaches catastrophic proportions, the definitions of survivability and fire-safe components, materials of construction, component design, fire-safe valves and actuators, gaskets, pipe flanges, flange bolting, pipe fittings and unions, brazing and welding, insulation, composite piping materials, and other related subjects. Details are also provided on 78 fires that have occurred on Navy surface ships in the last ten years and their causes.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Naval Engrs J, v 106 n 3, May 1994, p 285 [11 p, 3 ref, 3 tab, 5 fig]
• Authors:
  • Bhasin, V
  • Nielsen, L
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fire prevention; Fires; Military vessels; Piping systems; Protection; Safety
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00708257
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM