Measure Guideline: Combustion Safety for Natural Draft Appliances Through Appliance Zone Isolation
This measure guideline covers how to assess and carry out the isolation of natural draft combustion appliances from the conditioned space of low-rise residential buildings. It deals with 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. This subset of houses does not require comprehensive combustion safety tests and simplified prescriptive procedures can be used to address safety concerns. This allows residential energy retrofit contractors inexperienced in advanced combustion safety testing to effectively address combustion safety issues and allow energy retrofits including tightening and changes to distribution and ventilation systems to proceed.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Building Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 1130171
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/GO-102014-4377; KNDJ-0-40338-03
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: Work performed by NorthernSTAR, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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