Modular Warehouse System with Segmented Fire Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing warehouse systems face challenges in quick retrieval of storage bins due to the need for iterative relocation of bins above the target bin, and they struggle with fire protection in high stack configurations, making it difficult to comply with regulatory requirements.
Innovation Solution
A warehouse system comprising a modular construction method using prefabricated interconnectable storage modules, each with a storage area and a top level for vehicle movement, allowing for quicker access and improved fire protection through a pipe system for releasing extinguishing medium.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If high stack sizes with more than 10 bins per stack are used to achieve high storage density, then storage density is improved, but fire protection capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The warehouse system is divided into multiple storage modules, each with a maximum stack size of 6 bins. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high overall storage density through multi-level modular construction while ensuring that individual stacks remain low enough for effective fire protection and quick bin retrieval without iterative relocation
2Ease of operation
If iterative relocation process is used to retrieve bins at low positions in stacks, then all bins above target bin are relocated, but retrieval time increases
Solution Approach 1:
By limiting stack height to a maximum of 6 bins per stack through modular design, the system reduces the number of bins that need to be relocated when retrieving bins at lower positions. This segmentation dramatically decreases retrieval time while maintaining operational flexibility
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from horizontal expansion to vertical multi-level modular stacking. By organizing storage into multiple levels of modules rather than single high stacks, the system achieves high storage density while ensuring quick access to bins at any position within a module
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The modular design enables quicker retrieval times and increased throughput by reducing relocation needs and allowing for effective fire protection across all storage bins, including those at lower positions in stacks.
Implementation Method 1
a pipe system for releasing extinguishing medium may be installed in the fire protected module
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a warehouse system having a fire protection system (650), the warehouse system providing space for a three-dimensional arrangement of storage bins. The warehouse system comprises a plurality of interconnected storage modules (200), wherein each storage module (200) comprises a storage area and a top level arranged above the storage area, wherein the storage area is adapted to accommodate a plurality of stacks of storage bins arranged in a horizontal two-dimensional grid at a bottom of the storage module (200), wherein, at the top level, at least one vehicle is movable in alignment with the two-dimensional grid to retrieve and place storage bins from and to the plurality of stacks, wherein the plurality of interconnected storage modules (200) comprises at least two levels of storage modules (200) placed one above the other in an individual room. The warehouse system comprises a fire protection system (650) providing a plurality of fire protected modules (200) among the plurality of storage modules (200), wherein, in each of the fire protected modules (200), a pipe system (654) for releasing extinguishing medium is installed.