American society for checking out materials - ANS-ASTM
An business enterprise that develops version constructing codes - ANS-Southern Building
Codes Congress International, SBCCI
Appliance - ANS-Eqipment, typically built in standardized sizes or types, installed or
connected as a unit
Approved - ANS-Acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction.
Authority having Jurisdiction - ANS-The corporation, office or person responsible for
approving equipment, installations or procedures
Baffle - ANS-Object placed in an appliance to trade the course, amplify the route, or gradual
the drift of air, air-gas mixtures, or flue gasses
BOCA - ANS-Building Officials Code Administrators International, an corporation that
develops version Building codes
Borescope - ANS-A tool used for internal inspection of tough to look regions.
British Thermal Unit. BTU - ANS-The quantity of warmth required to elevate 1lb or water 1
diploma Fahrenheit
CFM Cubic Feet Per Minute, - ANS-as used to measure air waft
Clearance - ANS-Distance between a warmness producing equipment, chimney, chimney
connector, vent, vent connector or plenum, and different surfaces.
Combustion - ANS-The speedy oxidation of gasoline generally followed via the
manufacturing of warmth and light.
Combustion Chamber - ANS-A heavily built vicinity designed to resist direct touch with
combustion and to optimize conditions essential to burn gasoline correctly.
Confined Space - ANS-A space whose quantity is less than 50 cu feet per 1,000 btu/hr of the
mixture enter rating of all home equipment established in that area. Also defined as 512
cubic toes.
Connector - ANS-The pipe that connects the clothes dryer to the exhaust duct, additionally
called the transition duct.
Duct - ANS-Any tube or canal via which a fluid, air or different materials is conducted or
conveyed
Exhaust - ANS-The discharge of used gasoline, moisture, and so forth. And the pipe through
which it's far released
Flashing - ANS-Sheet metallic used in waterproofing roof valleys, hips, or the perspective
among a chimney or vent and a roof
Flow - ANS-Amount (Volume) of gases that absolutely pass via the venting gadget
Flow Capacity - ANS-The quantity of air or gases able to float via a venting system in a given
time and at a given gadget resistance
Flue Gases - ANS-Combustion products from gas burning appliances plus excess air
FPM feet consistent with minute - ANS-As used to degree air drift
Gasketing - ANS-Special Rope like or tape like noncombustible and compressible material
this is used to make airtight seals
Guage or Gage - ANS-As used to explain a tool