Are there any issues in using desalinated water in a fire sprinkler system?
DO. Since most sprinkler systems use ferrous materials, any water that contains oxygen will promote corrosion in the pipe-work and fittings, if the water is also acidic, then it would be fair to say that the rate of corrosion would be accelerated. There is however another factor to take into account, if no fresh water is introduced into the system, then the oxygen and acid will soon become a spent force, and corrosion will all but cease, so there is yet another reason for not expelling water from the system. INFRA. How will your solutions reduce energy consumption? DO. Once installed, a sprinkler system only has one primary consumer of energy, and they are the fire pumps. The two things that govern energy consumption are the rating of the pumps size and the number of hours of operation, so quite naturally we looked at addressing both. The hours of operation are in-part determined by the standards authority requiring a weekly test, there is however another reason why the fire pumps oper
