SECTION 120.9 – MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMERCIAL BOILERS.

(a)        Combustion air positive shut-off shall be provided on all newly installed boilers as follows:

1.   All boilers with an input capacity of 2.5 MMBtu/h (2,500,000 Btu/h) and above, in which the boiler is designed to operate with a nonpositive vent static pressure.

2.   All boilers where one stack serves two or more boilers with a total combined input capacity per stack of 2.5 MMBtu/h (2,500,000 Btu/h).

(b)       Boiler combustion air fans with motors 10 horsepower or larger shall meet one of the following for newly installed boilers:

1.   The fan motor shall be driven by a variable speed drive, or

2.   The fan motor shall include controls that limit the fan motor demand to no more than 30 percent of the total design wattage at 50 percent of design air volume.

(c)        Newly installed boilers…

…with an input capacity 5 MMBtu/h (5,000,000 Btu/h) and greater shall maintain excess (stack-gas) oxygen concentrations at less than or equal to 5.0 percent by volume on a dry basis over firing rates of 20 to 100 percent.  Combustion air volume shall be controlled with respect to firing rate or flue gas oxygen concentration.  Use of a common gas and combustion air control linkage or jack shaft is prohibited.

EXCEPTION to Section 120.9(c): Boilers with steady state full-load thermal efficiency 85 percent or higher.

NOTE: Authority: Sections 25213, 25218, 25218.5, 25402 and 25402.1, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 25007, 25008, 25218.5, 25310, 25402, 25402.1, 25402.4, 25402.8, and 25943, Public Resources Code.