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To: maceng2 who wrote (78447)	10/14/2001 4:48:01 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116753

Yes there were roof tanks and sprinklers. The trouble is, with 24,000 gallons of jet fuel that is 192,000 lbs or 87,168,000 grams or let's say 1,743,000 moles of hydrocarbon. At 1500 Kilojoules per mole fuel of heat energy available thru combustion, that is 2,615,040,000 KJ of energy. If water takes 40.7 KJ to vaporize one mole then we can vaporize 64,251,597 moles, or 1,156,528,746 grams or 2,547,420 pounds of water. That is 308,778 US gallons of Water. I don't think they had that much in the tanks. With 7 - 1000 GPM pumps like they use in deep mines they could have delivered the necessary water to the site to put out the fire in one hour assuming no additional fuels were involved. EC<:-}