Standard for Safety for Active Fire Protection for Air Cargo Containers

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL)
Standards Development Organisation:
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Working Program:
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Designation Number:
ANSI/CAN/UL 5810
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Domestic
Standard Sub-Type
Joint Canada-U.S. National Standard
Standard Development Activity:
New Standard
ICS code(s):
13.300; 55.180.30
Status:
Proceeding to development
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Scope:

These requirements cover the performance requirements for active fire protection, specifically detection and suppression features, used in air cargo containers to contain a fire initiated inside the container. The requirements evaluate the ability of the fire protection to control or suppress lithium-ion battery initiated fires on cargo aircraft and to include a series of standardized challenge fires (mixed hazardous materials, pallets of batteries, etc).

Project need:

There is an industry need for standardized requirements to evaluate active fire protection at a cargo container level. There are published standards and standards in development to cover passive fire containment and the structural requirements of air cargo containers. Some industry standards are limited to individual packages, where this new standard addresses the cargo container, which stores a collection of packages. In addition, this new standard fills a gap for addressing the next generation of fire containment, beyond Class A Fires (fires in ordinary combustible materials, such as wood, cloth, paper, rubber, and plastics for which the quenching and cooling effects of quantities of water, or of solutions containing a large percentage of water, are of prime importance).

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