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National Fire Protection Association
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.
Equipment that removes the absorbed solvent from the material being processed.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment that removes oil and fat from oil-or fat-bearing material by means of a suitable solvent.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment that regulates the charging process of a battery by diverting power from energy storage to direct-current or alternating-current loads or to an interconnected utility service.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment that is used to change voltage level or waveform, or both, of electrical energy. Commonly, an inverter (also known as a power conditioning unit (PCU) or power conversion system (PCS)) is a device that changes dc input to an ac output. Inverters may also function as battery chargers that use alternating current from another source and convert it into direct current for charging batteries.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment that is not easily moved from one place to another in normal use.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment that is fastened or otherwise secured at a specific location.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment that converts an ac electric signal into an acoustic signal. The term speakeris commonly used to mean loudspeaker.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment that controls dc voltage or dc current, or both, used to charge a battery.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment that combines the functions of a mixer and amplifier within a single enclosure.
Industry:Fire safety
Equipment that automatically detects heat, flame, products of combustion, flammable gases, or other conditions likely to produce fire or explosion and cause other automatic actuation of alarm and protection equipment.
Industry:Fire safety