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Northern Sonoma County (NSC) Testing Protocol

- OMNI Emissions Tests


Preliminary Results - Not For Distribution


See also: Rumford Fueling Protocol- by Jim Buckley
  Clearance to Combustibles Test at OMNI
  Clearance to Combustibles Testing at Lopez Labs, Jan. 2000
  1997 Masonry Heater Performance Testing at Lopez Labs
  Building Code Clearances to Combustibles Debate
  Lopez Labs Archives

Jerry Frisch supplied the preliminary summary below of the recent emissions tests at OMNITEST Services.

Description of each group of bars:(from left to right)

Large group on left:
The "round robin" woodstove used by EPA to compare inter-laboratory repeatability. The PM numbers are shown in order of increasing burn rate.

Tall pair of bars:
A 36" zero clearance (metal) fireplace. It required the use of a grate, because it had a sheet metal floor.

Middle group of four bars:
Four masonry fireplaces burned with doors closed. The fireplaces are as follows:

Rightmost group of four bars:
The same 4 fireplaces as above, burned with the doors open.

Comments from Jerry Frisch:

The metal fireplace and the "standard" masonry fireplace both used a grate, and had the highest emissions numbers.

 


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