I spend $100 to have an oil furnace tech tune my oil furnace & he analyzes the smoke for excess air & CO content. U cant do the same?
Pook,
You need a full blown lab with thousands of dollars worth of sensitive testing devices. Then you do a whole regimen of testing.
That's for solid fuel...go read the B415 testing protocol.
When you do oil that's simple...any bacharach tester can determine CO and draft speeds.
Again you don't have a clue.....
Dang...feeding the trolls again.
:notrolls2:
You think it's so simple...look at the index from B415
Technical Committee on Performance Testing and Rating of Solid-Fuel-Burning Appliances 5
Preface 7
1. Scope 9
2. Reference Publications 9
3. Definitions 10
4. Emission Requirements I2
4.1 Particulate Emissions 72
4.2 CO Emissions 73
5. Test Facilities 73
5.1 Test Room 73
5.2 Appliance Installation and Preparation 74
6. Test Instrumentation and Apparatus I5
6.1 Fuel Characteristics 75
6.1 .l Fuel Weight 75
6.1.2 Fuel Moisture Content 75
6.1.3 Fuel Calorific Value 75
6.2 Temperatures 75
6.2.1 Air Temperature 75
6.2.2 Flue Gas Temperature 75
6.2.3 Accuracy of Temperature-Measuring Equipment 7 7
6.3 Flue Gas Composition 77
6.4 Miscellaneous 7 7
6.5 Particulate Sampling System 78
7. Fire Chamber Measurement and Fuelling for Cordwood-Fired Appliances 20
7.1 Fire Chamber Volume 20
7.2 Test Fuel 27
7.3 Test Charge 22
8. Testing Cordwood-Burning Appliances 25
8.1 General 25
8.2 Burn Rates 25
8.3 Appliance Operation 26
8.4 Data Collection and Recording 28
8.5 Particulate Sampling System 29
8.5.1 Preparation of Particulate Sampling System 29
8.5.2 Leak-Check Procedures 29
8.5.3 Installation of Sample Collection System 29
8.5.4 Operation of Sample Collection System 30
8.5.5 Post-test Operations 3 7
8.6 Operating Limitations 32
9. Testing Particulate-Burning Appliances 33
9.1 General 33
9.2 Fuel 33
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9.3 Fuel Charge 33
9.4 Appliance Operation 33
1 0 . Results 34
10.1 Nomenclature 34
10.2 Proportional Rate Variation 35
10.3 Conversion to Standard Conditions 35
1 0 . 4 Solvent Wash Blank 35
1 0 . 5 Total Particulate Catch 35
10.6 Particulate Concentration 35
10.7 Burn Rate 35
10.8 Particulate Emission Rate 36
10.9 Average Particulate Emission Rate 36
10.10 Efficiency and Carbon Monoxide 36
10.10.1 General 36
10.10.2 Initial Values 36
10.10.3 Combustion Equation 37
10.10.4 Fuel Constituents Ratio 37
10.10.5 Mass Balance 37
10.10.6 Moisture in Fuel 38
10.10.7 Heat Content 38
10.10.8 Efficiency 39
10.11 Average Vent Temperature 39
10.12 CO Emissions 39
10.13 Average Efficiency 39
11. Vent Temperature 4 0
12. Multiple Results Wlthln One Burn-Rate Category 40
13. Marklng 40
Table 45
Appendices
A - Calculation of Weighted Average Emission Rate - An Example 46
B - Sample Calculation of Efficiency and Carbon Monoxide Emissions 47
C - Total Combustible Carbon Method for Determination of Energy Efficiency of Wood
Heaters 52
Now I don't want to hear squat from you until you read this whole standard ...
http://mha-net.org/docs/CSA-B451b.PDF
there will be questions to follow.
