- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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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.
All activities performed at the scene of a hazardous materials incident that expose fire department members to the dangers of hazardous materials.
Industry:Fire safety
Alkali compounds can attach to bed material particles. These compounds can have low melting points and cause the bed particles to stick to each other to form agglomerates.
Industry:Fire safety
Air-purifying respirator with a hood or helmet, breathing tube, canister, cartridge, filter, and a blower that passes ambient air through the purifying element. The blower can be stationary or portable. It can also be designed and equipped with a full facepiece, in which case it is referred to as a full facepiece powered air-purifying respirator (FFPAPR).
Industry:Fire safety
Air volume and velocity shall be sufficient to dilute, render harmless, and carry away flammable or explosive concentrations of dusts and vapors.
Industry:Fire safety
Air used to react with the fuel in the combustion process. For duct burners, this generally is combustion turbine exhaust.
Industry:Fire safety
Air that is supplied, returned, recirculated, or exhausted from spaces for the purpose of modifying the existing atmosphere within the building.
Industry:Fire safety
Air that is supplied from an auxiliary source to maintain a minimum fuel mixture velocity in burner piping.
Industry:Fire safety
Air that enters a draft hood or draft regulator and mixes with the flue gases.
Industry:Fire safety
