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Publication Review

Title: Combustion Equipment Safety
Author: US Department of Energy, 2000
File: Free Pamphlet, PDF .99 MB, 4 pages
Audience: For homeowner, builders and designers concerned with building safety.

Review
An overview of the combustion problems associated with home appliances.

Issues covered include:

• efficient combustion appliances
• problems posed by combustion appliances
• carbon monoxide
• water vapor
• nitrogen oxides
• furnaces and water heaters
• unvented space heaters and fireplaces
• stoves and ovens
• installation concerns
• combustion closet design and requirements, water heaters and furnaces
• causes and prevention of backdrafting
• carbon monoxide detectors
  

Detail drawings include:

• shelf-system furnace closet diagram
• water heater closet diagram
• transfer grill diagram

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