- 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.
A system in which the fuel is pulverized and delivered in suspension directly to the burner(s).
Industry:Fire safety
A system in which signals are transmitted from a radio alarm transmitter (RAT) located at a protected premises through a radio channel to two or more radio alarm repeater station receivers (RARSR) and that are annunciated by a radio alarm supervising station receiver (RASSR) located at the central station.
Industry:Fire safety
A system in which signals are transmitted from a digital alarm radio transmitter (DART) located at a protected premises through a radio channel to a digital alarm radio receiver (DARR).
Industry:Fire safety
A system in which signals are transmitted from a digital alarm communicator transmitter (DACT) located at the protected premises through the public switched telephone network to a digital alarm communicator receiver (DACR).
Industry:Fire safety
A system in which heat is generated on the inner surface of a ferromagnetic envelope attached to a pipeline or vessel, or both.
Industry:Fire safety
A system in which heat is generated in a pipe or rod, or combination of pipes and rods, by causing current to flow through the pipe or rod by direct connection to an ac voltage source from a dual-winding transformer. The pipe or rod shall be permitted to be embedded in the surface to be heated, or constitute the exposed components to be heated.
Industry:Fire safety
A system having water pipes servicing fire hydrants and designed to furnish, over and above domestic consumption, a minimum of 250 gpm (950 L/min) at 20 psi (138 kPa) residual pressure for a 2-hour duration.
Industry:Fire safety
A system for the storage of hydrogen gas in metal hydride material.
Industry:Fire safety
A system for identifying available resources to enable timely and unimpeded access to resources needed to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to, or recover from an incident.
Industry:Fire safety
A system designed to detect the entry or attempted entry of a person or vehicle into a protected area.
Industry:Fire safety
