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Appliance ✔✔Eqipment, usually built in standardized sizes or types, installed or connected as a unit
Approved ✔✔Acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction.
American society for testing materials ✔✔ASTM
Authority having Jurisdiction ✔✔The organization, office or individual responsible for approving equipment, installations or procedures
Baffle ✔✔Object placed in an appliance to change the direction, extend the path, or slow the flow of air, air-fuel mixtures, or flue gasses
BOCA ✔✔Building Officials Code Administrators International, an organization that develops model Building codes
Borescope ✔✔A device used for internal inspection of hard to see areas.
British Thermal Unit. BTU ✔✔The amount of heat required to raise 1lb or water 1 degree Fahrenheit
CFM Cubic Feet Per Minute, ✔✔as used to measure air flow
Clearance ✔✔Distance between a heat producing appliance, chimney, chimney connector, vent, vent connector or plenum, and other surfaces.
Combustion ✔✔The rapid oxidation of fuel usually accompanied by the production of heat and light.
Combustion Chamber ✔✔A heavily constructed area designed to withstand direct contact with combustion and to optimize conditions necessary to burn fuel efficiently.
Confined Space ✔✔A space whose volume is less than 50 cu ft per 1,000 btu/hr of the aggregate input rating of all appliances installed in that space. Also defined as 512 cubic feet.
Gasketing ✔✔Special Rope like or tape like noncombustible and compressible material that is used to make airtight seals
Guage or Gage ✔✔As used to describe a tool
Heat Exchanger ✔✔Chamber in a heating appliance where heat, often resulting from combustion of fuel, is transferred through the wall of the chamber to air or water passing through the exchanger
Heating System ✔✔A heat producing appliance with a combustion chamber and a heat exchanger
Histoplasmosis ✔✔A fungal infection from bird dung
IBC ✔✔INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE
International Conference of building Officials ✔✔IBCO an organization that develops model building codes
IMC ✔✔International Mechanical Code
IN.WC. ✔✔Inches of water Column, used to measure pressure
International Residential Code ✔✔IRC
kPa Kilo Paschal ✔✔Used to measure pressures. kPa represents 1000 Paschals
Labelled ✔✔Materials or equipment to which has been attached a label, symbol or identifying mark of an organization
Listed ✔✔Material or Equipment included in a list published by an organization acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction
Meters per second MPS ✔✔used to measure airflow
Megnehelic gauge ✔✔Measures pressure differences
National Pipe Thread, NPT ✔✔as used to describe conventional pipe thread
Outside Air Combustion Kits ✔✔A duct with a valve for admitting outside air to the appliance for use during combustions
Pa ✔✔Paschal, the standard metric term for the measurement of pressure. One PSI is equal to 6890 Pascal or 6.89 kPa
Pyrolysis ✔✔The Chemical alteration of wood, coal, or other combustible materials as a result of application of heat, a precursor to ignite
Rerouting ✔✔A fresh installation designed to improve exhausting characteristics
Southern Building Codes Congress International, SBCCI ✔✔An organization that develops model building codes
Screening ✔✔Wire mesh installed at a dryer duct termination designed to prevent animals and birds from entering the duct
SQ.IN ✔✔As used to describe the size of an opening
Transition Duct ✔✔The connector from the dryer to the exhaust duct
Underwriters laboratory, UL ✔✔An independent non profit, safety certifications organization
Van anemometer ✔✔Measures wind speed and air flow
An organization that develops model building codes ✔✔Southern Building Codes Congress International, SBCCI
Venting ✔✔Removal of combustion products as well as moisture or toxic fumes to the outside air
Venting System ✔✔A continuous, open passageway from the flue collar or draft hood of a fuel burning appliance to the outside atmosphere for the purpose of removing flue gasses. The same as an exhaust duct
