NFPA Cooks Up Revisions to Commercial Kitchen Ventilation Standard

摘要

This May at NFPA's World Safety Conference and Exposition in Salt Lake City, members will vote on proposed changes to more than 30 technical documents, among them, NFPA 96, Standard for Ventilation Control and Fire Protection of Commercial Cooking Operations. The standard covers equipment for dampers, cooking, exhaust, fire-extinguishment and grease control/ removal. Amendments to this particular standard are important because they could open the door for sig- nificant whole-building energy savings in facilities such as hospitals, universities and hotels, where food service is not the core mission.