2006 International Fuel Gas Code (soft cover)

Addresses the design and installation of fuel gas systems and gas-fired appliances through requirements that emphasize performance.

2006 International Fuel Gas Code (soft cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 ADMINISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Section

101 General (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

102 Applicability (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

103 Department of Inspection (IFGC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

104 Duties and Powers of the

Code Official (IFGC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

105 Approval (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

106 Permits (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

107 Inspections and Testing (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

108 Violations (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

109 Means of Appeal (IFGC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

CHAPTER 2 DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Section

201 General (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

202 General Definitions (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

CHAPTER 3 GENERAL REGULATIONS . . . . . . . 17

Section

301 General (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

302 Structural Safety (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

303 Appliance Location (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

304 Combustion, Ventilation, and

Dilution Air (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

305 Installation (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

306 Access and Service Space (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

307 Condensate Disposal (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

308 Clearance Reduction (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

309 Electrical (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

310 Electrical Bonding (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

CHAPTER 4 GAS PIPING INSTALLATIONS . . . . 29

Section

401 General (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

402 Pipe Sizing (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

403 Piping Materials (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

404 Piping System Installation (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

405 Pipe Bends and Changes in

Direction (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

406 Inspection, Testing and Purging (IFGS). . . . . . . . 68

407 Piping Support (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

408 Drips and Sloped Piping (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

409 Shutoff Valves (IFGC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

410 Flow Controls (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

411 Appliance and Manufactured

Home Connections (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

412 Liquefied Petroleum Gas Motor Vehicle

Fuel-dispensing Stations (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . 72

413 Compressed Natural Gas Motor Vehicle

Fuel-dispensing Stations (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . 73

414 Supplemental and Standby

Gas Supply (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

415 Piping Support Intervals (IFGS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

416 Overpressure Protection Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

CHAPTER 5 CHIMNEYS AND VENTS . . . . . . . . . 77

Section

501 General (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

502 Vents (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

503 Venting of Appliances (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

504 Sizing of Category I Appliance

Venting Systems (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

505 Direct-Vent, Integral Vent, Mechanical Vent and

Ventilation/Exhaust Hood Venting (IFGC) . . 105

506 Factory-built Chimneys (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

CHAPTER 6 SPECIFIC APPLIANCES. . . . . . . . . 115

Section

601 General (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

602 Decorative Appliances for Installation

in Fireplaces (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

603 Log Lighters (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

604 Vented Gas Fireplaces

(Decorative Appliances) (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . 115

605 Vented Gas Fireplace Heaters (IFGC) . . . . . . . . 115

606 Incinerators and Crematories (IFGC). . . . . . . . . 115

607 Commercial-Industrial Incinerators (IFGC) . . . 115

608 Vented Wall Furnaces (IFGC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

609 Floor Furnaces (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

610 Duct Furnaces (IFGC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

611 Nonrecirculating Direct-fired Industrial

Air Heaters (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

612 Recirculating Direct-fired Industrial Air

Heaters (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

613 Clothes Dryers (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

614 Clothes Dryer Exhaust (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

615 Sauna Heaters (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

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616 Engine and Gas Turbine-powered

Equipment (IFGC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

617 Pool and Spa Heaters (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

618 Forced-air Warm-air Furnaces (IFGC). . . . . . . . 119

619 Conversion Burners (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

620 Unit Heaters (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

621 Unvented Room Heaters (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

622 Vented Room Heaters (IFGC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

623 Cooking Appliances (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

624 Water Heaters (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

625 Refrigerators (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

626 Gas-fired Toilets (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

627 Air-conditioning Equipment (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . 121

628 Illuminating Appliances (IFGC). . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

629 Small Ceramic Kilns (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

630 Infrared Radiant Heaters (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

631 Boilers (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

632 Equipment Installed in Existing

Unlisted Boilers (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

633 Stationary Fuel-cell Power Plants (IFGC) . . . . . 122

634 Chimney Damper Opening

Area (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

635 Gaseous Hydrogen Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

CHAPTER 7 GASEOUS HYDROGEN

SYSTEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Section

701 General (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

702 General Definitions (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

703 General Requirements (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

704 Piping, Use and Handling (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . 126

705 Testing of Hydrogen Piping Systems (IFGC) . . 127

706 Location of Gaseous

Hydrogen Systems (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

707 Operation and Maintenance of Gaseous

Hydrogen Systems (IFGC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

708 Design of Liquefied Hydrogen Systems

Associated With Hydrogen Vaporization

Operations (IFGC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

CHAPTER 8 REFERENCED STANDARDS . . . . . 131

APPENDIX A SIZING AND CAPACITIES OF

GAS PIPING (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . 135

APPENDIX B SIZING OF VENTING SYSTEMS

SERVING APPLIANCES

EQUIPPED WITH DRAFT

HOODS, CATEGORY I

APPLIANCES, AND

APPLIANCES LISTED

FOR USE WITH TYPE B

VENTS (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

APPENDIX C EXIT TERMINALS OF

MECHANICAL DRAFT AND

DIRECT-VENT VENTING

SYSTEMS (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

APPENDIX D RECOMMENDED PROCEDURE

FOR SAFETY INSPECTION OF

AN EXISTING APPLIANCE

INSTALLATION (IFGS) . . . . . . . . . . 159

INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

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