A kitchen fire suppression system does not sense fire through the hood. It senses heat through a steel cable, the detection line, running inside sealed conduit above the cooking line and holding the system’s fusible links under spring tension. When grease works its way inside that conduit, the cable can stiffen or bind enough that … Read more
Fire Suppression
Commercial kitchen fire suppression guidance on hood systems, nozzles, fusible links, and NFPA 96 compliance across Dallas-Fort Worth from Boss Fire Protection.
A nozzle cap is the small removable cover fitted over the discharge opening of a kitchen fire suppression nozzle. Its only job is keeping grease, moisture and cooking debris out of that opening between service visits, so the extinguishing agent leaves the nozzle in the exact pattern the system was designed and listed to spray. … Read more