| Published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
Use the new best practices for fuel gas piping and appliances!
The National Fuel Gas Code is essential for designers, installers, AHJ's, and system maintainers responsible for ensuring fuel gas safety on consumers' premises. Revised to reflect current techniques and products available today, this edition also includes clarified text that eliminates confusion.
Changes and improvements impacting your work:
- New data helps you properly size longer installations. Dozens of pipe sizing tables have been extended with information for all piping up to 2,000 feet.
- A first-time requirement addresses support of rooftop piping to protect against wind damage.
- Other revisions make the Code consistent with the 2005 National Electrical Code, the 2003 Uniform Plumbing Code and other related documents.
- Install and operate gas systems for better public safety and consumer satisfaction.
Annexes provide "how-to" advice about sizing and capacities of gas piping, and sizing of venting systems serving appliances. You'll also find a suggested method of checking for leakage as well as suggested emergency procedures for gas leaks. More than 800 diagrams and graphics clarify concepts.
The 2006 NFPA 54 National Fuel Gas Code incorporates revised steel, copper and polyethylene pipe sizing tables with uniform lengths of 2000 feet, except for low-pressure PE tables, which go to 500 feet. Requirements for appliance shutoff valves have been revised to allow manifold systems with all shutoff valves in one location up to 50 feet from the most remote appliance. The definitions have been reorganized by categories of definitions. Chapters containing sizing tables and appliance startup procedures have been relocated so that Chapters 5 through 8 cover piping, Chapters 9 through 11 cover installation of appliances, and Chapters 12 and 13 cover venting of appliances. In addition, consistent use of the terms "appliance" and "equipment" has been provided throughout the code, and the term "gas utilization equipment" has been discontinued.
Take fuel gas hazards seriously and reduce risks. Work with the new basis for fuel gas safety nationwide and around the globe: the 2006 NFPA 54: National Fuel Gas Code.
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