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The regulation UNE-EN 14470-1, for safety cabinets, is the only valid in the European market

22/07/2010

July 22, 2010

Cabinets of safety to store flammable liquids, with rules UNE-EN 14470-1 is the only valid in the European continent. Since the adoption of this European standard, in April of 2004, although AENOR published in January 2005, he is considered the Cabinet's security as a kind of article with some special characteristics of the fire resistance and that it must be proved in different way to the gates cut fires. In particular, the standard classified safety cabinets in 4 types (type 15-30-60-90), depending on the time it takes, within it, to achieve an increase in temperature of 180 K, when the exterior has a temperature of 1000^or. Also, this privacy policy indicates where the sensors of temperature in the interior of the wardrobe should be placed to record this internal temperature increase: four sensors of temperature of air in the four corners more than 25 mm from the surface of the walldoor and roof; devices of the temperature measurement by contact in ceiling, floor, walls and doors and measurement of the temperature of a fluid device.

Until the adoption of this specific European regulation for safety cabinets, was accepted by the Royal Decree 379/2001 which indicated that a wardrobe protected (security) should have a minimum fire-resistance of 15 minutes, according to the norm UNE-EN 1634that applied mainly to short Gates fires and panic. Thus, since 2005 no longer a legal vacuum for safety cabinets. However, some companies sell their cabinets under certification FM-OSHA-NFPA 30, valid only in American territory. Asecos, manufacturer of products for the storage of dangerous substances, insists that the cabinets type FM-OSHA have never been authorized in Europe, that undergo a test of fire of 10 minutes in which temperature sensorsplaced 25 mm from the ceiling of the closet, they can reach an increase of 163 K. If proof is extending to 20 minutes, a temperature of about 300 degrees inside the closet would be achieved.