- 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.
The process of computing, with the use of equations, graphs, or tables, the system characteristics such as flow rate, pipe size, area, or volume protected by each nozzle, nozzle pressure, and pressure drop.
Industry:Fire safety
The process of imparting knowledge or skill through systematic instruction.
Industry:Fire safety
The ratio of the total moles of calcium in the sorbent fed to the boiler to the total moles of sulfur in the fuel fed to the boiler.
Industry:Fire safety
The pressurizing of an aerosol container by cooling the propellant (and sometimes the product) below its boiling point and transferring it into the aerosol container before the valve is put in place. The operation is usually carried out at atmospheric pressure (that is, high pressure is not needed).
Industry:Fire safety
The primary drain connection located on the system riser and also utilized as a flow test connection.
Industry:Fire safety
The reintroduction of solid material extracted from the products of combustion into a fluidized bed.
Industry:Fire safety
The propensity for ignition, as measured by the time to sustained flaming, in seconds, at a specified heating flux.
Industry:Fire safety
The property of a material whereby combustion is prevented, terminated, or inhibited following application of a flaming or non-flaming source of ignition, with or without subsequent removal of the ignition source. Flame resistance can be an inherent property of the textile material, or it can be imparted by specific treatment.
Industry:Fire safety
The result of exothermic reactions, occurring spontaneously in some materials under certain conditions, whereby heat is generated at a rate sufficient to raise the temperature of the material.
Industry:Fire safety
The reversal of movement of smoke and hot gases counter to the direction of the ventilation airflow.
Industry:Fire safety
