NFPA National Fire Protection installations

NFPA 13 Installation of Sprinkler Systems, 1996 edition. National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA. 

NFPA 497 Classification of Flammable Liquids, Gases, or Vapors and of Hazardous (Classified) Locations for Electrical Installations in Chemical Process Areas, 1997 edition. National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA. 

NFPA-325 Guide to Fire Hazard Properties of Flammable Liquids, Gases and Volatile Solids, (1994 ed.), NFPA-321 Basic Classification of Flammable and Combustible Liquids (1991 ed.), NFPA-497A, Classification of Class 1 Hazardous (Classified) Locations for Electrical Installations in Chemical Process Areas (1992 ed.), and NFPA-497B, Classification of Class II Hazardous (Classified) Locations for Electrical Installations in Chemical Process Areas (1991 ed.), National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA. 

Data taken from NFPA 13, Installation of Sprinkler Systems (Quincy, MA National Fire Protection Associates, 1999) and NFPA 15, Standards for Water Spray Fixed Systems for Fire Protection (Quincy, MA National Fire Protection Association, 1996). 

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) NFPA is non-profit organization that publishes the National Electrical Code , the Life Safety Code , the Fire Prevention Code , the National Fuel Gas Code , and the National Fire Alarm Code . The mission of NFPA is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating scientifically based consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education. NFPA is developing a fuel cell specific code, NFPA 853, which will cover the installation of stationary fuel cells of at least 50 kW output. Publication is expected to occur in 2000. 

NFPA 853 National Fire Protection Association 853 - Standard for Fuel Cell Power Plants provides a standard for the design, construction and installation of stationary packaged, self contained and field constructed fuel cell power plants with a capacity greater than 50 kW. This standard has been approved and will be published during the summer of 2000. 

NFPA 497 (2004) Recommended practice for the classification of flammable liquids, gases or vapors and of hazardous (classified) locations for electrical installations in chemical process areas. (National Fire Protection Association). 

NFPA 497. Recommended Practice for the Classifications of Liquids, Gases or Vapors and of Hazardous Locations for Electrical Installations National Fire Protection Association Quicy, MA, USA, 1997 Edition. 

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