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National Fire Protection Association
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 flexible cord or cable, including ungrounded, grounded, and equipment grounding conductors, provided with a cord connector, an attachment plug, and all other fittings, grommets, or devices installed for the purpose of delivering energy from the source of electrical supply to the truck or TRU flanged surface inlet.
Industry:Fire safety
A flexible fabric component of rope rescue equipment that can include, but is not limited to, anchor straps, pick-off straps, and rigging slings.
Industry:Fire safety
A flexible tube for insertion through the nose into the nasopharynx to administer oxygen or other therapeutic gases.
Industry:Fire safety
A flight cylinder used in a hybrid rocket motor system into which the pressurized liquid or gas can be loaded prior to launch and stored for an indefinite period.
Industry:Fire safety
A floor furnace depending primarily on circulation of air by gravity. This classification also includes floor furnaces equipped with booster-type fans that do not materially restrict free circulation of air by gravity flow when such fans are not in operation.
Industry:Fire safety
A floor furnace equipped with a blower that provides the primary means for circulation of air.
Industry:Fire safety
A flooring or a combination of flooring and floor covering.
Industry:Fire safety
A flow of air at purge rate through the combustion turbine and the appropriate portion of the HRSG enclosure or other combustion turbine exhaust systems for a number of volume changes sufficient to effectively remove any gaseous or suspended combustibles and replace them with the air.
Industry:Fire safety
A flow of air or an inert medium at a rate that will effectively remove any gaseous or suspended combustibles and replace them with the purging medium.
Industry:Fire safety
A flow of combustion turbine exhaust gas or air at purge rate through the HRSG enclosure for a number of volume changes sufficient to effectively remove any gaseous or suspended combustibles and replace them with the purging medium.
Industry:Fire safety