| Terminology or Abbreviation |
What it stands for or meaning |
Significance and Implication |
| Fume Hood |
Fume Cupboard |
Many End Users / consultants who have come from overseas will call a Fume cupboard a Fume Hood |
| ASHRAE |
American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Airconditioning Engineers |
Since the fume cupboard is a ventilated piece of equipment , most of the requirements were written up by ASHRAE as handbooks |
| e.g The ventilation requirements of Fume cupboards is in ASHRAE 110 |
| SEFA |
Scientific Equipment and Furniture Association ( America) |
In America , Fume cupboards have been thought of as Scientific Equipemnt and Furniture in a Lab , so Tis association is quite involved in the Fume cupboard industry |
| NFPA |
National Fire Protection Authority ( America) |
Since fume cupboard have fire risk more than other furniture in labs , The NFPA has some minimum requirements for fume cupboard systems. These are set out in various NFPA codes in America. |
| However with more and more American and Canadian End Users/consultants being associated with projects in Australia and Asia you will notice reference to NFPA |
| EN |
European Norms |
These are the new European standards. |
| Many of the individual country standards like British Standards BS , or DIN etc are being standardised across Europe as EN Standards |
| BS |
British Standards |
Now slowly being standardised as EN |
