{"id":22629,"date":"2014-02-26T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T10:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=d119ae73aff4dfee2919c80cad905faa"},"modified":"2014-02-26T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T10:45:53","slug":"do-combustion-safety-testing-protocols-need-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/do-combustion-safety-testing-protocols-need-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Combustion Safety Testing Protocols Need Fixing?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Dr. Vi Rapp of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab says one test in particular doesn&#8217;t help as much as we think it does        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/do-combustion-safety-testing-protocols-need-fixing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/water-heater-combustion-safety-flue-pipe-exhaust-in-house.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Water heater venting problem\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/do-combustion-safety-testing-protocols-need-fixing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/hvac-furnace-natural-draft-energy-vanguard.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Natural draft furnace\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/do-combustion-safety-testing-protocols-need-fixing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/physics-of-drafting-vi-rapp-lbnl-worst-case-depressurization.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Equation for combustion appliance draft\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/do-combustion-safety-testing-protocols-need-fixing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/depressurization-limits-bpi-resnet-vi-rapp.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"BPI and RESNET depressurization limits\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/do-combustion-safety-testing-protocols-need-fixing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/real-worst-case-depressurization-combustion-safety-vi-rapp.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Real worst-case depressurization curve\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/do-combustion-safety-testing-protocols-need-fixing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/worst-case-depressurization-combustion-safety-test-vi-rapp.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ambient CO concentration and depressurization\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Burning fuels inside a house can lead to serious health and safety problems. That&#8217;s why energy auditors perform a variety of combustion safety tests to find potential hazards and recommend fixes.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago at the Dry Climate Forum, I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/eetd.lbl.gov\/people\/vi-rapp\" title=\"Vi Rapp, PhD of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab\">Vi Rapp, PhD, from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab<\/a> (LBNL) make an argument for changing the way we do combustion safety testing. It turns out that one of the tests we do may not be as helpful as many people think it is.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7620,7804,4999,5105],"class_list":["post-22629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-carbon-monoxide","tag-combustion-safety","tag-furnace","tag-water-heater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}