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Clean rooms— Another fire protection problem

Part II requirements for HEPA filters

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For several years, the Atomic Energy Commission has been cooperating with filter manufacturers filter paper manufacturers, the Underwriters’ Laboratories, and major users in the atomic energy program in a continuous program of filter improvement. The author reviews the minimum requirements determined by this effort—requirements that are suitable for industrial clean room applications.

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  1. Nuclear Division, Union Carbide Corporation, USA

    C. A. Burchsted

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Note: Based on a paper delivered by the author at the Sixth Annual Technical Meeting of the American Association for Contamination Control, May 15–18, 1967, Washington, D.C.

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Burchsted, C.A. Clean rooms— Another fire protection problem. Fire Technol 3, 271–280 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02588987

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