Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering
Passive and active protection sized against the event you actually face
Covers the engineering of fire and explosion protection, from detection and suppression through to passive fire protection ratings and blast resistant design. The emphasis is on matching the protection to the modelled event rather than to a general specification.
This course sits alongside our Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering consulting work, so what is taught is what we do.
Who should attend
Course content
Every module is taught with worked examples and exercises drawn from real plant, and adapted to your own process where the course runs in house.
Defining the design event
- Pool fire, jet fire, flash fire, fireball and vapour cloud explosion
- Thermal radiation and overpressure levels that matter for people and equipment
- Duration and escalation, and why a short intense event needs different protection
Detection
- Flame, heat, smoke and gas detection technologies and their limitations
- Detector layout and coverage mapping
- Voting, false alarm management and the executive action taken
Active protection
- Water spray, deluge, foam and gaseous suppression selection
- Application rates and the basis for them
- Water supply, hydraulics and duration requirements
Passive protection
- Fire proofing selection and the rating required for the event
- Structural steel critical temperature and the time to failure
- Bunding, drainage and containment of a spill
- Segregation and spacing as protection
Explosion protection
- Blast resistant building design and the occupied building assessment
- Deflagration venting, suppression and isolation for enclosed equipment
- Congestion management to limit flame acceleration
What you receive
- A protection philosophy template
- Detection coverage and application rate worksheets
- A fire proofing zone and rating specification example
- Assessment result and attendance record
What changes afterwards
- Protection is sized against the modelled event rather than a generic specification
- Detector layouts are justified by coverage rather than by spacing convention
- Fire proofing is applied where escalation actually threatens
- Occupied building decisions carry an analytical basis
Standards and references
We teach Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering against NFPA 15 water spray, NFPA 11 foam and NFPA 2001 clean agent systems and the codes listed with it, at the edition current when you run it.
Run Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering for your team
We will come back with dates, the pre-reading it needs and a cost per head. Tell us who is attending, what they already do day to day and whether you want it at your site or delivered online.
Ask about dates and cost