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29、d.NFPA290Standard forFire Testing of Passive Protection Materialsfor Use on LP-Gas Containers2013 EditionThis edition of NFPA 290, Standard for Fire Testing of Passive Protection Materials for Use onLP-Gas Containers, waspreparedbytheTechnicalCommitteeonFireTests.ItwasissuedbytheStandards Council on
30、 November 27, 2012, with an effective date of December 17, 2012, andsupersedes all previous editions.This edition of NFPA 290 was approved as an American National Standard on Decem-ber 17, 2012.Origin and Development of NFPA 290Although the 2003 edition was the first edition of NFPA 290, Fire Testin
31、g of Passive ProtectionMaterials for Use on LP-Gas Containers, a test procedure for torch fire and hose stream testing ofthermal insulating systems for LP-Gas containers has been included as an annex to NFPA 58,Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code, since the 1986 edition of that code. That test method was d
32、evelopedbytheTechnicalCommitteeonFireTestsattherequestoftheTechnicalCommitteeonLiquefiedPetroleumGasesasaresultofnumerousBLEVEincidentsthathadoccurredinpreviousyears.Inthe mid-1990s, the test procedure saw greater use, particularly outside the United States, and thetwo technical committees agreed th
33、at it should be developed and maintained as a fire test stan-dard under the scope of the Fire Test Committee rather than as an annex to NFPA58.The 2003 edition of NFPA290 represented a refinement of the test procedure that previ-ously appeared as an appendix to NFPA58, and it reorganized the procedu
34、re as a stand-alonefire test standard using mandatory language in accordance with the Manual of Style for NFPATechnical Committee Documents.The 2009 edition contained revisions to clarify its scope and purpose, and a revised defi-nition of the term “passive fire protection material.”The 2013 edition
35、 has been updated to reference the most up-to-date standards and termi-nology.2901NFPAand National Fire ProtectionAssociation are registered trademarks of the National Fire ProtectionAssociation, Quincy, Massachusetts 02169.Technical Committee on Fire TestsBarry L. Badders, Jr., ChairSouthwest Resea
36、rch Institute, TX RTFarid Alfawakhiri, American Iron and Steel Institute,IL MJesse J. Beitel, HughesAssociates, Inc., MD SERhonda P. Byrne, QAI Laboratories, CARTGordon H. Damant, Inter-City Testing all these documents are also available on the NFPA website at “www.nfpa.org.” The following is genera
37、l information on the NFPA process. All participants, however, should refer to the actual rules and regulations for a full understanding of this process and for the criteria that govern participation. II. Technical Committee Report. The Technical Committee Report is defined as “the Report of the resp
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