Measure guideline, combustion safety for natural draft appliances using indoor air / prepared by L. Brand ; prepared for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Brand, L., author.

Contributor:

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.), issuing body.

Building America (Program : U.S.), sponsoring body.

United States. Department of Energy. Office of Building Technologies, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electric apparatus and appliances--Installation--Standards--United States.

Electric apparatus and appliances.

Combustion--Prevention--Standards--United States.

Combustion.

Electric apparatus and appliances--Installation--Standards.

United States.

Genre:

technical reports.

Technical reports

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 25 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Golden, CO : U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Office, April 2014.

Summary:

This measure guideline covers how to assess and carry out the combustion safety procedures for appliances and heating equipment that uses indoor air for combustion in low-rise residential buildings. Only appliances installed in the living space, or in an area freely communicating with the living space, vented alone or in tandem with another appliance are considered here. A separate measure guideline addresses combustion appliances located either within the living space in enclosed closets or side rooms or outside the living space in an adjacent area like an attic or garage that use outdoor air for combustion. This document is for inspectors, auditors, and technicians working in homes where energy upgrades are being conducted whether or not air infiltration control is included in the package of measures being applied. In the indoor combustion air case, guidelines summarized here are based on language provided in several of the codes to establish minimum requirements for the space using simplified prescriptive measures. In addition, building performance testing procedures are provided by testing agencies. The codes in combination with the test procedures offer comprehensive combustion safety coverage to address safety concerns, allowing inexperienced residential energy retrofit inspectors to effectively address combustion safety issues and allow energy retrofits to proceed.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed Nov. 10, 2014).

"NREL technical monitor: Stacey Rothgeb."

Includes bibliographical references (page 25).

"DOE/GO-102014-4380"--Page [26].

OCLC:

897386714