Dry pipe and wet pipe fire suppression systems have one thing in common: corrosion. Any environment that presents steel, water, and oxygen together will undoubtedly result in oxygen corrosion. Dry pipe sprinkler systems experience oxygen corrosion ...
In recent years nitrogen has become widely accepted by the fire protection industry for dry and pre-action sprinkler systems. We talked about the oxygen corrosion and ice plug issue found within freezers in cold storage in a previous post. Now, ...
Automatic fire sprinkler systems that are used in cold storage freezer installations present unique problems that require special considerations when designing. Corrosion and potential ice plugs are perhaps the two biggest issues when designing a ...