- Industry: 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 stoker having one or more retorts that feed and distribute fuel onto side tuyeres or a grate through which air is admitted for combustion and over which the ash is discharged at the side parallel to the retorts.
Industry:Fire safety
A stoker having a grate composed of transversely spaced underfeed retorts that feed and distribute solid fuel to intermediate rows of tuyeres through which air is admitted for combustion. The ash is discharged from the stoker across the rear end.
Industry:Fire safety
A stoker equipped with movable ashtrays, or grates, by means of which the ash is discharged at any desirable interval.
Industry:Fire safety
A steel threadable raceway of circular cross section designed for the physical protection and routing of conductors and cables and for use as an equipment grounding conductor when installed with its integral or associated coupling and appropriate fittings.
Industry:Fire safety
A steam boiler that operates at pressures that exceed 50 psig (gauge pressure of 345 kPa) or an industrial appliance larger than 100 ft3 (2. 8 m3) in size, excluding blower compartment, fan compartment, and burner equipment, such as an annealing furnace (glass or metal), a charcoal furnace, a galvanizing furnace, a gas producer, or a commercial or industrial incinerator.
Industry:Fire safety
A stationary heating appliance comprising the following: boilers, central furnaces, floor furnaces, and wall furnaces.
Industry:Fire safety
A station that is constructed in such a manner that it is open to the atmosphere, and smoke and heat are allowed to disperse directly into the atmosphere.
Industry:Fire safety
A station or portion thereof that does not meet the definition of an open station.
Industry:Fire safety
