Fire Detection and Suppression Reference Materials

Description: Accuracy matters, and the wrong choice of instrument can lead to costly errors. ...

Description: Flame detector blind spots can compromise safety. Learn how Field of View, range, and smart placement work together to ensure complete coverage and reliable protection. ...

Description: Fires pose a significant risk to paper storage facilities, as paper is highly flammable and large quantities in storage represent a high fire load. ...

Description: Technology is being increasingly deployed for fire-spotting. Some of the systems being used are satellite-based, or are optical solutions that search for smoke. Emerging systems are sensor and IoT ...

Description: Hard to believe that, today, we’re observing the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Those of us who lived through it have indelible images of this day, and will always ...

Description: Designing a fire protection system for an airport terminal building using standards such as NFPA 13 and NFPA 415 ...

Description: Forty years ago, a small town in the Canadian province of Quebec became the site of a fire that killed scores. A new book examines the lasting impact that fire had on that tiny, insular community. ...

Description: A proposal to allow bulk shipments of LNG on US railroads has sparked criticism and raised concerns among first responders. How should the safety community prepare? ...

Description: Fast-burning modern furniture make home fire sprinklers vital ...

Description: Experts from a range of fields are coming together to find new approaches to the wildfire problem ...

Description: Industrial fire safety is a concern for plant owners, and exploring innovative technologies for helping to keep people safe and protecting equipment assets is a priority for many high-profile ...

Description: Groundbreaking Temperature Sensing Solution for Unparalleled Yield Improvement and Efficiency Gains for MOCVD Processes for LED Production ...

Description: One of the most common sources of Fire and Gas detection system failure is power supply interruption and disturbance. Power supply specifications of an instrument refer to the voltage that must appear ...

Description: flame detectors and gas monitoring systems ...

Description: While traffic lights and fire hydrants are used for different purposes, these two staples of daily life have a number of elements in common ...

Description: Hazardous locations are defined as premises, buildings or parts thereof where fire or explosion hazards may exist due to the presence of flammable gases or vapors, flammable liquids, combustible ...

Description: Encapsulation is a type of protection in which the parts that can ignite an explosive atmosphere are enclosed in a resin. The resin must be sufficiently resistant to environmental influences so that ...

Description: Precaution - Flame detector installation and maintenance ...

Description: Detectors testing method ...

Description: Installation of standard flame sensor. ...

Description: Combustion is a fairly simple chemical reaction in which Oxygen is combined rapidly with another substance resulting in the release of energy. This energy appears mainly as heat - sometimes in the ...

Description: Process and plant engineers working in hazardous environments require continuous flame monitoring equipment to prevent catastrophic fires. In order to select such detection equipment, users should ...

Description: All of us want to feel safe. When you plug in a new toaster, do you want to be concerned about getting shocked or starting a fire? Of course not! What guarantees these hazards will not turn into ...

Description: In the last edition of 20/20 Insights we discussed the elements that must be present in order to produce an explosion. The three legs of the "fire triangle" (fuel, oxygen, and an ignition source) are ...

Description: In the last edition of 20/20 Insights we covered the use of explosion proof construction to prevent a source of ignition from coming in contact with a room full of fuel and air. Strong enclosures with ...

Description: In the last edition of 20/20 Insights we covered the concept of intrinsically safe (IS) systems and how their design limits the release of energy into a hazardous atmosphere to prevent ignition. Now ...

Description: Accurate and reliable industrial flame monitoring has always represented a technical challenge. The main flame monitoring concern lies in the requirement to differentiate spectral radiation emitted by ...