- Industria: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
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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 system that cools the perimeter of a vapor degreaser tank near its top for the purpose of condensing a saturated vapor blanket from boiling flammable solvent.
Industry:Fire safety
A system that controls duress alarm devices and operates in private or public.
Industry:Fire safety
A system that consists of these interconnected subsystems: (1) stationary storage batteries, (2) battery chargers, and (3) a collection of rectifiers, inverters, converters, and associated electrical equipment as required for a particular application.
Industry:Fire safety
A system that adjusts for changing conditions either by modulating supply airflows or by relieving excess pressure.
Industry:Fire safety
A system requiring individual calculation and design to determine the flow rates, nozzle pressures, pipe size, area or volume protected by each nozzle, quantity of agent, and the number and types of nozzles and their placement in a specific system.
Industry:Fire safety
A system planning process used to assist in selecting and setting protective devices to improve power system reliability.
Industry:Fire safety
A system permanently attached to the tunnel that is able to spread a water-based extinguishing agent in all or part of the tunnel.
Industry:Fire safety
A system or portion thereof in which the initiation of a holdup signal is either semiautomatic or manual.
Industry:Fire safety
A system or portion thereof in which the initiation of a holdup signal depends solely on operation of manually operated hand or foot initiating devices installed within the working area.
Industry:Fire safety
