- Industry: Fire safety
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A fast-closing valve that automatically and completely shuts off the fuel supply in response to a normal or safety shutdown.
Industry:Fire safety
A fastening made by tying together lengths of rope or webbing in a prescribed way.
Industry:Fire safety
A feature of automatic fire detection and alarm systems to reduce unwanted alarms wherein smoke detectors report alarm conditions for a minimum period of time, or confirm alarm conditions within a given time period after being reset, in order to be accepted as a valid alarm initiation signal.
Industry:Fire safety
A feeding device that incorporates a double pressure seal, thus enabling solids to be fed into a system with a higher pressure than the pressure existing in the solid’s storage area. Also, a letdown device that incorporates a double pressure seal, thus enabling solids to be withdrawn from a system with a higher pressure than that existing downstream of the lock hopper.
Industry:Fire safety
A fibrous, granular, cubed, or flake-like nitrocellulose wetted with not less than 25 percent by weight alcohol, toluene, or other organic liquid having a flash point not lower than -4°C (25°F).
Industry:Fire safety
A fibrous, homogeneous panel made from lignocellulosic fibers and having a density of less than 31 lb/ft3 (497 kg/m3) but more than 10 lb/ft3 (160 kg/m3).
Industry:Fire safety
A fibrous-felted, homogeneous panel made from lignocellulosic fibers consolidated under heat and pressure in a hot press to a density not less than 31 lb/ft3 (497 kg/m3).
Industry:Fire safety
A field-constructed chimney of solid masonry units, bricks, stones, listed masonry chimney units, or reinforced Portland cement concrete, lined with suitable chimney flue liners.
Industry:Fire safety
A filled fabric pocket below the bottom batten or frame member of a fire safety curtain designed to press against the floor.
Industry:Fire safety
