Fire Fighting Pumping Systems at Industrial Facilities

1. Historical applications of firewater pumping systems 2. Philosophy of protection 3. Firewater flow requirements 4. Duration of firewater supplies 5. Sources of firewater pump supply 6. Pump types and applications 7. Pump installation, piping arrangements and accessories 8. Materials of construction 9. Pump drivers and power transmission 10. Firewater pump controllers 11. Reliability 12. Classified area pump installations 13. Firewater pump acceptance and flow testing 14. Human factors and quality control

Appendix. Selected major incidents affecting the performance of firewater pumping systems

Nolan, Dennis P. Dr. Dennis P. Nolan has had a long career devoted to risk engineering, fire protection engineering, loss prevention engineering and systems safety engineering. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Business Administration from Berne University, Master of Science degree in Systems Management from Florida Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland. He is a U.S. registered professional engineer in fire protection engineering in the state of California.He is currently on the Executive Management staff of Saudi Aramco, located in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, as a Loss Prevention Consultant/Chief Fire Prevention Engineer. He covers some of the largest oil and gas facilities in the world. As part of his career, he has examined oil production, refining, and marketing facilities under severe conditions and in various unique worldwide locations, including Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and North and South America. His activity in the aerospace field has included engineering support for the NASA Space Shuttle launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center (and for those undertaken at Vandenburg Air Force Base, California) and "classified” national defense systems. Dr. Nolan has received numerous safety awards and is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, He is the author of many technical papers and professional articles in various international fire safety publications. He has written at least four books, several published by Elsevier.