Reliable Sprinkler and Dan Bird of Classic Fire + Life Safety have been working together for over a year to create a new sprinkler head designed specifically for Lithium-ion battery fire protection.
The result is the Model LB11 Horizontal Sidewall Storage Sprinkler head - the first sprinkler head specifically designed to address fire protection of Lithium-ion batteries in manufacturing and warehousing facilities that utilize an automatic storage retrieval system.
Reliable Sprinkler now is the only manufacturer with a listed sprinkler head that has been UL tested (199K) and approved for specific single row racking applications to protect lithium-ion battery storage locations.
Classic and Reliable are now working directly with the LG-Stellantis group on the second round of UL tests, utilizing batteries from LG-Stellantis with the goals beings:
The LB-11 successfully extinguished a thermal runaway propagation storage fire, with no damage to the target trays or target racks.