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Under what circumstances is an automatic fire alarm system used? Is it necessary to install one in the workshop where 10 m3 of ethanol is used in the process? I ask our seniors to share their valuable insights
Code for Fire Protection Design of Buildings GBJ16—87 (1997 edition) 10.3.1 Automatic fire alarm systems shall be installed in the following areas of buildings: 1. Large and medium-sized computer rooms. Special and valuable machinery, instrument rooms, equipment rooms, and vaults for valuable items; warehouses for cotton, wool, silk, linen, synthetic fibers, and related fabrics with a floor area of over 1000 m2; other rooms equipped with fixed fire extinguishing systems such as halogenated hydrocarbons or carbon dioxide; important machine rooms in broadcasting and telecommunications buildings; and important laboratories with a high risk of fire ; II. Libraries, collections of cultural relics, libraries with a collection of over 1 million books, important archives and databases, as well as cigarette storage facilities with a floor area of over 500 m2 or a total construction area of over 1000 m2 ; III. In stadium auditoriums with over 3,000 seats, there are combustible materials in the ceilings as well as in the telecommunications equipment rooms. Department stores, exhibition halls, and luxury hotels with a floor area of over 3,000 m2 each. Note: In buildings equipped with automatic fire alarm systems, manual alarm devices should be installed in appropriate locations. 10.3.2 Class A factories and areas that emit combustible gases or vapors shall be equipped with leak detection and alarm devices for combustible gas concentrations. Code for Fire Protection Design of High-Rise Civil Buildings GB50045—95 (1997 edition) 9.4.1 In high-rise buildings with a height exceeding 100 m, an automatic fire alarm system shall be installed in all areas, except for toilets and washrooms with an area of less than 5.00 m2. 9.4.2 Except for ordinary residential buildings, automatic fire alarm systems shall be installed in the following areas of category I high-rise buildings with a building height not exceeding 100 m: 1. Patient wards in hospital ward buildings, rooms containing valuable medical equipment, medical record archives, and drug storage areas ; 2 Rooms and public areas in luxury hotels ; 3 Business buildings, the sales halls of commercial-residential buildings, and the exhibition halls of exhibition buildings ; 4 Important machine rooms and key rooms in telecommunications buildings and postal buildings ; Offices, service counters, and ticket storage areas in Building 5 for Finance, Trade, and Banking ; 6 Studios, broadcasting rooms, recording studios, technical facilities for program transmission, and props/set design in the radio and television building ; 7 Microwave rooms, computer rooms, control rooms, and power rooms in power dispatch buildings, disaster prevention command and dispatch buildings, etc ; 8 Library reading rooms, offices, and bookstores ; 9 Archives, reading rooms, and offices in the archive building ; 10 Offices, meeting rooms, and archives in the office building ; 11 Internal corridors, lobbies, combustible material storage areas, air conditioning rooms, power distribution rooms, and generator rooms ; 12 Technical mezzanines with a clear height of over 2.60 m and a large amount of flammable materials ; 13 Rooms for valuable equipment and rooms with a high fire risk ; 14 Basements where people often stay or where there is a large amount of flammable materials ; 15 The main computer room, control room, paper library, and tape library of the computer center. 9.4.3 Automatic fire alarm systems shall be installed in the following areas of Category II high-rise buildings: 1 Offices, sales halls, and ticket storage areas in commercial and financial buildings ; 2 Main computer room, control room, paper library, tape library of the computer facility ; 3 Storage areas for flammable materials with an area greater than 50 m2 ; 4 Business halls with an area of over 500 m2 ; 5 Basements where people often stay or where there is a large amount of flammable materials ; 6 Rooms containing valuable or important items. \"Code for Fire Protection Design of Garages, Repair Shops and Parking Lots\" GB50067—97 9.0.7 Automatic fire alarm systems shall be installed in Class I garages other than those that are open-type, Class II underground garages, high-rise garages, as well as mechanical multi-story garages, double-deck garages, and garages that use elevators as exits for vehicle evacuation. \"Code for the Design of Museum Buildings\" JGJ66—97 5.3.1 Large and medium-sized museums must be equipped with automatic fire alarm systems. Code for Design of Port Passenger Terminal Buildings JGJ86—92 8.0.8 Baggage warehouses in grade I, II, and III port passenger terminals as well as international passenger terminals shall be equipped with automatic fire alarm systems. Code for Design of Railway Passenger Station Buildings GB50226—95 8.2.3 In super-large and large railway passenger stations, areas such as soft-seating waiting rooms, VIP waiting rooms, ticket storage rooms, baggage storage rooms, and power distribution rooms shall be equipped with automatic fire alarm systems, along with corresponding fire control rooms. When a fire control room is located in the non-venue area of an integrated station building, it should be installed separately from the passenger building. \"Code for Architectural Design of Archives\" JGJ25—86 5.2.1 Class A archives should be equipped with automatic fire alarm systems in the archive storage areas, microfilming rooms, air conditioning rooms, etc.
Thank you for the contributions from the second floor, but the \"Code for Fire Protection Design of Buildings\" GBJ16—87 mentioned by the original poster has been revoked; the latest standard is the \"Code for Fire Protection Design of Buildings GB50016-2006\".
The provisions of the \"Code for Fire Protection Design of Buildings GB50016-2006\" are as follows: 11.4.1 Automatic fire alarm systems shall be installed in the following locations: 1 Large and medium-sized computer rooms and their control rooms, storage areas for recording media; rooms containing special, valuable equipment or those with a high fire risk, as well as vaults for valuable items; rooms equipped with gas fire extinguishing systems; 2 Warehouses for cotton, wool, silk, linen, synthetic fibers and their fabrics that each have a floor area of more than 1000 m2, as well as cigarette warehouses with a floor area of over 500 m2 or a total construction area of more than 1000 m2 ; 3 Factories for shoe manufacturing, garment production, toy manufacturing, etc., where the floor area of any single floor is greater than 1500 m2 and the total building area is greater than 3000 m2 ; 4 Shops, exhibition buildings, commercial and financial buildings, as well as passenger and freight transport buildings, where the floor area of any single floor is greater than 3000 m2 or the total building area is greater than 6000 m2 ; 5 Libraries and collections of cultural relics: libraries with a collection of over 1 million books each, as well as important archives ; 6 Radio and television buildings at the prefecture-level or above, postal buildings, telecommunications buildings, as well as buildings for urban or regional power, transportation, and disaster prevention and relief command and control ; 7 First-class or A-class theaters, or theaters of other categories with more than 1,500 seats; cinemas; halls or auditoriums with more than 2,000 seats; stadiums with more than 3,000 seats ; 8 Buildings for the elderly, hotel buildings with a floor area of more than 1500 m2 on any floor or a total building area of more than 3000 m2, ward buildings in sanatoriums, children’s activity centers, and outpatient buildings, ward buildings, operating theaters, etc. in hospitals with 200 or more beds ; 9 Underground or semi-underground shops with a building area of more than 500 m2 ; 10 Entertainment venues such as dance halls, entertainment centers, cinemas, and game shops located underground, semi-underground, or on the fourth floor or above of buildings ; 11 Technical mezzanines with a clear height of more than 2.6 m and a large amount of combustible materials, as well as ceilings or suspended ceilings with a clear height of more than 0.8 m and combustible materials present.
Petrochemical regulations require petrochemical enterprises to install automatic fire alarm systems.
I recently completed training on the general standards for safety standardization in entities that handle hazardous chemicals; all such entities must obtain certification by 2010. One of the requirements outlined is that, per relevant regulations, enterprises should install safety monitoring and alarm systems for major hazard sources. The workshop that uses 10 m3 of ethanol in its processes is already considered a major hazard source in accordance with the provisions of GB18218–2000 \"Identification of Major Hazard Sources\",; therefore, safety monitoring and alarm devices must be installed