Have you asked your supplier?

Generally find the likes of BOC provide good sector specific advice

https://www.boconline.co.uk/en/index.html

What do you mean by “fire action”?  For example if an area, which contains argon gas cylinders, is on fire, are you asking should staff,  evacuate, fight the fire  or remove the cylinders to a safe place?

Originally Posted by: Roundtuit

Have you asked your supplier?

Generally find the likes of BOC provide good sector specific advice

https://www.boconline.co.uk/en/index.html

In case of fire: Stop leak if safe to do so. Continue water spray from protected position until container stays cool. Use extinguishants to contain the fire. Isolate the source of the fire or let it burn out.

Originally Posted by: Green40245

Originally Posted by: Roundtuit

Have you asked your supplier?

In case of fire: Stop leak if safe to do so. Continue water spray from protected position until container stays cool. Use extinguishants to contain the fire. Isolate the source of the fire or let it burn out.

So the supplier read verbatim from a Safety Data Sheet?

Personally never found that myself talking to their technical team.

Obviously, we don’t know the natureof your set up, which is why it’s down to your risk assessment, but similar issues have been raised in the past on the forum and the general consensus was, unless there is a pressing reason to do so, not to remove the gas cylinders during a fire. This is not so much the risk that they might explode but  because a) people are wasting time when they should evacuating  and b) dragging cylinders about during an evocation could  create bottlenecks etc.

The gas itself does not pose that great a risk: we all agree that it is not a fire/explosion  hazard if the cylinder is discharged. The cylinders won’t necessarily explode either: they might just safely discharge an inert gas.  Finally, even a large  cylinder has less than £200 worth of gas in it so there  is not even a financial reason to “save” the cylinders.

Finally, probably not for your benefit, but  for causal readers of this forum: ensure that you have a suitable risk assessment in place that, focuses on preventing a fire in the first place and that you have mitigation in place that will stop the fire from spreading. In that way this becomes a purely theoretical conjecture about an unlikely event, which we can make jokes about on the forum rather than a significant risk to worry about.

Edited by user 14 April 2022 09:56:54(UTC)  | Reason: spellings

Agree with A Kurdziel. I asked a similar question a few years ago regard Oxygen / Acetylene sets, and got the same answer regarding don’t try and get them out. I would add to the comments though. Do make sure you tell the fire brigade that you have them and approx. where they are (on plan) and I would also suggest that they are not stored on a fire escape route in case the heat of a fire does make them release their pressure quickly. Obviously, fire fighters may be going back into the building on the fire escape route.

Chris