Combustion safety simplified test protocol field study / prepared for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy's Building Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ; prepared by L. Brand [and five others].
Imprint
[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Energy. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Office, November 2015.
Title from title screen (viewed on July 20, 2016).
Published through SciTech Connect.
11/01/2015.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-80).
Note
"DOE/GO-102015-4805."
"7237."
Summary
Combustions safety is an important step in the process of upgrading homes for energy efficiency. There are several approaches used by field practitioners, but researchers have indicated that the test procedures in use are complex to implement and provide too many false positives. Field failures often mean that the house is not upgraded until after remediation or not at all, if not include in the program. In this report the PARR and NorthernSTAR DOE Building America Teams provide a simplified test procedure that is easier to implement and should produce fewer false positives. A survey of state weatherization agencies on combustion safety issues, details of a field data collection instrumentation package, summary of data collected over seven months, data analysis and results are included. The project team collected field data on 11 houses in 2015.
