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Improve installation of oil burning appliances.
NFPA 31, Installation of Oil-Burning Equipment, provides the guidance you need to install appliances for safe and efficient use in industrial, commercial, and residential occupancies. Just revised and improved, it's the industry benchmark for installing boilers, air heaters, water heaters, and domestic range burners.
The 2006 edition of NFPA 31 Standard for the Installation of Oil-Burning Equipment incorporates the following major changes:
- Revised guidance in Section 6.6.7 for inspecting chimneys or flue gas venting systems prior to installing oil-fired appliances. The guidance limits the scope of this inspection, but requires written notification of deficiencies to the owner of the premises.
- Updated design standards and installation requirements for fuel oil storage tanks.
- Guidance on using crankcase and used motor oils as fuels.
- Complete revision of Section 7.5 on installation of fuel oil storage tanks in buildings. It includes a replacement of the previous criteria for allowable storage quantities in unenclosed and enclosed environments with simpler criteria used by the 2006 edition of NFPA 37, Standard for the Installation and Use of Stationary Combustion Engines and Gas Turbines. Also includes guidance for manifolding of three- and four-tank door installations.
- Section 7.5 provides more specific guidance for the installation of oil safety valves and thermally operated shutoff valves.
- Includes stricter requirements for taking fuel storage systems either temporarily or permanently out of service.
- Section 8.9 contains more specific requirements for testing piping installations.
This 2006 edition of NFPA 31 Standard for the Installation of Oil-Burning Equipment also clarifies responsibilities of service technicians installing appliances, and includes diagrams illustrating cross-connection of two-, three-, and four-tank installations.
The provisions of NFPA 31-2006 apply to:
- The installation of stationary oil-burning equipment and appliances, including but not limited to industrial-, commercial-, and residential-type steam, hot water, or warm air heating plants; domestic-type range burners and space heaters; and portable oil-burning equipment.
- All accessory equipment and control systems, whether electric, thermostatic, or mechanical, and all electrical wiring connected to oil-fired equipment.
- The installation of oil storage and supply systems connected to oil-fired equipment and appliances.
- Those multi-fueled appliances in which fuel oil is one of the optional fuels.
- Note that this standard does not apply to internal combustion engines, oil lamps, or portable devices not specifically covered in this standard.
Contents
Chapter 1: Administration. Chapter 2: Reference Publications. Chapter 3: Definitions. Chapter 4: Basic Installation and Operation Requirements. Chapter 5: Air for Combustion and Ventilation. Chapter 6: Venting of Combustion (Flue) Gases. Chapter 7: Fuel Oil Tanks. Chapter 8: Fuel Piping Systems and Components. Chapter 9: Oil Distribution Systems. Chapter 10: Installation of Oil Burners and Oil-Burning Appliances. Chapter 11: Installation and Operation of Oil-Burning Stoves, Kerosene-Burning Room Heaters, and Kerosene-Burning Portable Heaters. Chapter 12: Used Oil-Burning Appliances. Chapter 13: Oil-and-Gas Burning Appliances. Annex A: Explanatory Material. Annex B: Acceptable Tank Installations. Annex C: Typical Chimney and Vent Termination. Annex D: Considerations for Combustion Equipment Firing Alternative (Nonpetroleum) Fuels. Annex E: Relining Masonry Chimneys. Annex F: Informational References. Index. |
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