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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear all!<br>
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I have urgent question about fire safety in fluid-preserved collections.<br>
We are planning new building for Estonian Museum of Natural History and until last week it was not considering the potential danger of ca 15 cubic meters of fluid-preserved specimens, speaking of 12 tonnes of 70-75 % ethanol.<br>
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I need some examples from the best of this world. We had meeting last week with our fire-safety specialist but he seemed to have no knowledge or skill to deal with such amount of ethanol.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Most important questions are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">In case of fire, how to exit? Sprinklers and gas extinguishing are out of question. But then, if I spill a jar full of something toxic or poisonous and some fire gets loose, what then?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">Do you handle your fluid-preserved collectins as an explosion hazard? How do you mitigate the risks? How do you lead out the heat from collection in case of fire?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I think a pressure valve, which just flies away in case of overpressure, would mitigate some risk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We already have planned the ventilation to near-floor, ideally separate from rest of the building.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">An alternative is to put all fluid-preserved vessels to the flammable liquid safety cabinets but this may be more expensive than secure the whole room.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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So far I have checked NPS, ConserveOGram, <span style="color:black">Collection Forum,
</span>spnhc wiki and STASHC but have not find any specific information about that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBibliography"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">1. Simmons, John E.
<i>Fluid Preservation</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBibliography"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">2. ? Storage Concerns For Fluid-Preserved Collections.
<i>Conserve O Gram</i> <b>11</b>, 1–4 (1999).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBibliography"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">3. Marte, F. & Solazzo, C. The Stability of Natural History Specimens In Fluid-preserved Collections. 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBibliography"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">4. Neumann, D. & Carter, J. Baseline Standards for Fluid Collections. 47.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBibliography"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">5. MacLeod, I. D. Conservation of a museum megamouth shark specimen by changing its preservative from aqueous ethanol to aqueous glycerol.
<i>Collection Forum</i> <b>29</b>, 73–89 (2015).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ET">Best regards!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ET">Lennart Lennuk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ET">Head of zoology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ET">Estonian Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ET">+372 6603404, 56569916<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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