Calculation of Water Delivery Time in Dry Pipe Sprinkler Systems
Kangastie, Harri (2017)
Kangastie, Harri
2017
Ympäristö- ja energiatekniikka
Teknis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta - Faculty of Natural Sciences
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2017-06-07
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201705241456
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201705241456
Tiivistelmä
An automatic fire protection can be provided by a sprinkler system. The most common type of a sprinkler system is called a wet type system. A pipe network in the wet type systems is always filled with water and this type of a system can be used in spaces where the temperature remains in range where water occurs in liquid form. Dry pipe sprinkler systems are developed to be used in cold or hot conditions where wet type systems cannot be used. To prevent a sprinkler system from freezing, dry pipe systems are initially filled with pressurized gas and water is lead in after the system is activated. Before water can start to fight against fire, part of the gas has to be removed from the pipe network and water has to replace it. This gas removing and water filling phase weakens the fast response to the ignited fire which is the best advantage of the automatic sprinkler systems.
The scope of this thesis was to develope a calculation program that estimates the time that is consumed when part of the gas is removed from the sprinkler system and is replaced by water. The program was written in Python programming language. The motivation to develope this kind of a calculation program is to improve the designing procedure of the dry pipe sprinkler systems and to ensure that designed systems meet the restrictions of automatic sprinkler systems.
The present practice in building design is to use a Building Infomation Modeling (BIM) programs. In this thesis the written program is developed to work with BIM program. The developed calculation program gets characteristics of the sprinkler pipe network from BIM program where the sprinkler pipe network is designed in three dimensions. From this information, the developed calculation program calculates an estimation of the time that is needed to remove part of the gas and to fill the sprinkler pipe network with water, i.e. the time from system activation to real action of the system.
The results of one example case were compared with the results of a commercial program. The results were satisfactory, which encourages to develope this program more for future use. Due to complex and only slightly limited pipe network configurations, interaction of two fluid phases, and highly transient nature of the water flow in the system, more testing is needed to verify the results and for further development of this calculation program.
The scope of this thesis was to develope a calculation program that estimates the time that is consumed when part of the gas is removed from the sprinkler system and is replaced by water. The program was written in Python programming language. The motivation to develope this kind of a calculation program is to improve the designing procedure of the dry pipe sprinkler systems and to ensure that designed systems meet the restrictions of automatic sprinkler systems.
The present practice in building design is to use a Building Infomation Modeling (BIM) programs. In this thesis the written program is developed to work with BIM program. The developed calculation program gets characteristics of the sprinkler pipe network from BIM program where the sprinkler pipe network is designed in three dimensions. From this information, the developed calculation program calculates an estimation of the time that is needed to remove part of the gas and to fill the sprinkler pipe network with water, i.e. the time from system activation to real action of the system.
The results of one example case were compared with the results of a commercial program. The results were satisfactory, which encourages to develope this program more for future use. Due to complex and only slightly limited pipe network configurations, interaction of two fluid phases, and highly transient nature of the water flow in the system, more testing is needed to verify the results and for further development of this calculation program.