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Mr. Andrew Blum graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in Fire Protection Engineering. His experience includes design, review, inspection, and analysis of fire protection system installations, fire hazard analysis, life safety/building code surveys, computer fire modeling, small and large-scale fire testing, interpretation and enforcement of fire/building codes, as well as fire/explosion investigations, and fire protection systems failure analysis/investigations.
Mr. Blum is a registered professional fire protection engineer and has extensive experience utilizing the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) codes, standards, and recommended practices, model building and fire codes from the International Code Council (ICC) and product safety standards, such as UL standards and listings in his analyses. He has experience in performing and supervising small- to large-scale fire tests. These tests include firsthand fire testing experience with nationally and internationally accepted standards published by the NFPA, ASTM, ISO, UL, FM, and CFR. He also has specific expertise in fire-testing lithium-ion batteries used in consumer electronics/products, electric drive vehicles, in storage configurations and in BESS. This experience includes performing, analyzing, or reviewing (as a technical panelist) fire tests of lithium-ion batteries for the NFPA’s Fire Protection Research Foundation.
Mr. Blum is a principal member on the technical committee on NFPA 855, Standard for the Installation of Stationary Energy Storage Systems and is an active member of the NFPA, ICC, ASTM, and Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). He has presented many times on the topic of lithium-ion batteries as it relates to fire safety and has published numerous papers/reports on the same subject, including lithium-ion BESS.
LIMITATIONS
At the request of Tesla, FEI performed an FPE analysis of their new BESS. The MP2/2XL is a ground mounted lithium-ion BESS with a storage capacity between approximately one and four MWh. It is meant for outdoor installations, mounted to the ground, for commercial and industrial applications. This FPE analysis included a review of the MP2/2XL, its construction, design, fire safety features, UL 9540A cell, module and unit level test data, additional internal unit level fire tests and fire propagation modeling. The scope of services performed during this analysis may not adequately address the needs of other users of this report, and any re-use of this report or its conclusions presented herein are at the sole risk of the user. The opinions and comments formulated during this assessment are based on observations and information available at the time of the analysis from the UL 9540A unit level fire test. No guarantee or warranty as to future life or performance of any reviewed condition is expressed or implied.
FEI Project # 22035 Page 50 01/23/2023 22035-03R (MP2 and MP2XL FPE Report)
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