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Apply fuel gas provisions correctly from the start with the 2006 NFPA 54-2006: National Fuel Gas Code Handbook. This complete guide to today's Code makes the National Fuel Gas Code Handbook an essential on-the-job resource for troubleshooting and training. Written by NFPA authorities, it helps you maximize fire safety and fire protection, steer clear of roadblocks, and keep fuel gas piping, appliance, and venting projects in compliance and on schedule. The new National Fuel Gas Code Handbook includes new material in the code with added commentary, revised supplements, and calculation worksheets that can be reproduced and used.
Features:
- The entire 2006 NFPA 54 text plus expert commentary from Code authorities explaining the Code's intent and how to comply.
- All-new FAQs identifying key facts for installers, inspectors, and maintainers. These alert you to vital aspects of gas safety you can't afford to overlook.
- More than 200 visuals illustrate field situations. Additional photographs cover state-of-the-art equipment and installations.
- List of all tables, figures, and exhibits makes it easy to find what you need.
- The Fuel Gas Odorization Supplement facilitates your work on systems in commercial and residential occupancies.
- Examples of calculations save you time.
- New Commentary index streamlines your research.
From the Preface
This sixth edition of the National Fuel Gas Code Handbook continues the work begun in 1988 to help users of the National Fuel Gas Code to understand and use the code more easily. The code must be written using a technically clear, usable, and enforceable style suitable for adoption into law. This handbook provides commentary that brings the legalistic language of the code to life.
This handbook has grown considerably since its first edition, published in 1988. New material in the code accounts for part of this growth, but most of the increase comes from added commentary, revised supplements, and calculation worksheets that are intended to be reproduced and used.
The purpose of this handbook is to assist enforcers or users of the National Fuel Gas Code in installing gas piping, gas appliances and venting for gas appliances.
The 2006 edition of the code contains several important changes, including the following:
- Chapter Numbering. Chapters containing sizing tables are relocated to provide contiguous sections covering piping, appliance and equipment installation, and venting.
- Relocation of Pipe Sizing Tables. Pipe sizing tables are relocated to Chapter 6 and reorganized with all natural gas tables in Section 6.2 and all propane tables in Section 6.3. The tables are extended to cover steel, copper, and high pressure polyethylene pipe lengths up to 2,000 feet and low pressure polyethylene to 500 feet. CSST lengths are not changed. This change provides information needed by many piping system installers. In addition, all table values are rounded to three significant digits, and entries smaller than 10 ft3/hr natural gas and 10,000Btu/hr are rounded down to zero to remove essentially useless entries from the tables.
- Alternate Locations Provided. A new option provides alternate locations for appliance shutoff valves. Where manifold piping systems are used, and all shutoff valves are at the manifold, the valves can be up to 50 feet from the appliance served.
- New Material. A new section on installation of appliances in attics provides requirements for entryway size, length of travel path and ceiling height, flooring, lighting, and a requirement for an electrical outlet to ensure access for service and appliance replacement.
- Reorganization of Definitions. The definitions in Chapter 3 have been reordered and reorganized by category. The definitions of "Appliance" and "Equipment" have been revised. An appliance is any device that utilizes gas as a fuel or raw material to produce light, heat, power, refrigeration, or air conditioning; equipment is devices other than appliances; and the term "Gas Utilization Equipment" is discontinued. The use of the terms has been correspondingly adjusted throughout the code.
Contents:
Part One: National Fuel Gas Code, with Commentary. Chapter 1: Administration. Chapter 2: Referenced Publications (Reserved). Chapter 3: Definitions. Chapter 4: General. Chapter 5: Gas Piping System Design, Materials, and Components. Chapter 6: Gas Piping Installation. Chapter 7: Inspection, Testing, and Purging. Chapter 8: Equipment Installation. Chapter 9: Installation of Specific Equipment. Chapter 10: Venting of Equipment. Chapter 11: Procedures to Be Followed to Place Equipment in Operation. Chapter 12: Pipe Sizing. Chapter 13: Sizing of Category I Venting Systems. Chapter 14: Referenced Publications. Annexes. Annex A: Explanatory Material. Annex B: Coordination of Gas Utilization Equipment Design, Construction, and Maintenance. Annex C: Sizing and Capacities of Gas Piping. Annex D: Suggested Method of Checking for Leakage. Annex E: Suggested Emergency Procedure for Gas Leaks. Annex F: Flow of Gas through Fixed Orifices. Annex G Sizing of Venting Systems Serving Appliances Equipped with Draft Hoods, Category I Appliances, and Appliances Listed for Use with Type B Vents. Annex H: Recommended Procedure for Safety Inspection of an Existing Appliance Installation. Annex I: Indoor Combustion Air Calculation Examples. Annex J: Example of Combination of Indoor and Outdoor Combustion and Ventilation Opening Design. Annex K: Other Useful Definitions. Annex L: Informational References. Part Two: Supplements. Supplement 1: Development of Revised Venting Guidelines. Supplement 2: Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing Gas Piping Systems. Supplement 3: Technical Background for Residential Carbon Monoxide Responders. Supplement 4: Revision to American National Standard for Gas Water Heaters - Volume 1 - Storage Water Heaters with Input Ratings of 75,000 Btu per Hour or Less. Supplement 5: Procedure to Estimate Infiltration Rate for Residential Structures. Supplement 6: Calculation Worksheets. Index.
About the Author:
After graduating from the City College of New York with a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) degree, Theodore C. Lemoff was employed in the chemical and petrochemical industry by Proctor and Gamble Company, Sun Chemical Corporation, and Badger Engineers Inc. in various engineering positions. He joined NFPA in 1985 and currently serves as NFPA's principal gases engineer. NFPA staff liaison to the National Fuel Gas Code Committee, he is also responsible for other NFPA standards on flammable gases. Lemoff represents NFPA on the ASME Code for Pressure Piping Committee (National Interest Review Group) (B31), the pipeline safety advisory committee of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the IAPMO Mechanical and Plumbing Code Committees. Lemoff is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, the Society of Gas Engineers, and the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials. |
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