Industrial Fire Protection Engineering or Microeconomics

Industrial Fire Protection Engineering

Author: Robert G Zalosh

Based on the successful course which the author has been teaching for some years at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, this text shows engineers how they can build fire protection into their products, whether they are dealing with an engineering plant, machine, building or its contents. Covering general considerations which relate to the application of all fire protection engineering, the text also examines specific problem areas such as warehousing, storage of flammable liquids, and the safety of electrical equipment and computers. Features include:

• Presentation of the latest research in the field, such as the protection of cabling from fire
• Offers full international coverage, giving reference to European as well as American codes and standards
• A variety of up-to-date and international case studies, making this text as relevant to the practitioner as well as the academic sector
• Addresses problems in a manner that is practical and immediately relevant

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction and perspective	1
1.1	Engineering approach to industrial fire protection	1
1.2	Statistical overview of industrial fires and explosions	10
1.3	Historic industrial fires and explosions	20
2	Plant siting and layout	27
2.1	Fire protection siting considerations	27
2.2	Plant layout for fire/explosion protection	43
3	Fire resistant construction	57
3.1	Construction materials	57
3.2	Fire resistance calculations	61
3.3	Fire resistance tests	67
3.4	Fire walls	73
3.5	Fire doors	78
3.6	Insulated metal deck roofing	83
3.7	Water spray protection of exposed structures	86
4	Smoke isolation and venting	91
4.1	Isolation and halon suppression within ventilated equipment	91
4.2	Isolation within rooms - building smoke control	96
4.3	Heat and smoke roof venting	107
4.4	Heat and smoke venting in sprinklered buildings	112
5	Warehouse storage	117
5.1	Warehouse fire losses	117
5.2	Storage configurations	118
5.3	Effect of storage height, flue space, and aisle width	124
5.4	Commodity effects	128
5.5	Sprinkler flow rate requirements	148
5.6	Sprinklered warehouse fire modeling	159
5.7	Cold storage warehouse fire protection	167
6	Storage of special commodities and bulk materials	171
6.1	Roll paper	171
6.2	Nonwoven roll goods	178
6.3	Rubber tire storage	181
6.4	Aerosol products	184
6.5	Solid oxidizers	188
6.6	Bulk storage	191
7	Flammable liquid ignitability and extinguishability	201
7.1	Incident data	201
7.2	Ignitability temperatures	202
7.3	Electrostatic ignitability	209
7.4	Pool and spill fire heat release rates	215
7.5	Spray fires	219
7.6	Water spray extinguishment	222
7.7	Foam extinguishment	230
7.8	Dry chemical and twin agent extinguishment	234
7.9	Carbon dioxide suppression	236
7.10	Halon replacement suppression agents	237
8	Flammable liquid storage	243
8.1	Storage tanks	243
8.2	Drum storage	268
8.3	Flammable liquids in small containers	279
9	Electrical cables and equipment	297
9.1	Electrical cables: generic description	297
9.2	Cable fire incidents	300
9.3	Cable flammability testing and classifications	304
9.4	Vertical cable tray fire test data	309
9.5	Horizontal cable tray fire test data	311
9.6	Cable fire suppression tests	314
9.7	Passive protection: coatings and wraps	317
9.8	Protection guidelines and practices	319
9.9	Electronic equipment flammability and vulnerability	322
9.10	Transformer fire protection	327
App. A	Flame Radiation Review	337
App. B	Historic industrial fires	347
App. C	Blast Waves	375
	Index	381

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Microeconomics: Principles and Analysis

Author: Frank A Cowell

Microeconomics covers core microeconomic principles using a clear and carefully constructed learning framework. The text provides a solid foundation in microeconomic analysis, using mathematical techniques where appropriate. Students also learn how to apply analytical techniques to a range of economic problems.
The text introduces the core concepts and techniques in early chapters, and builds upon these fundamentals throughout later chapters. Each chapter contains comprehensive problem sets and exercises, enabling students to put the theories they have learned into practice.
In addition, the book is supported by a companion web site containing supplementary resources for lecturers and students. For lecturers these include PowerPoint slides and answers to the book's many exercises and question sets. Features for students include PowerPoint material designed to aid understanding of graphical arguments used in the text and model answers to some of the exercises.