Oil-fired service water heaters for domestic hot water, space heating, and swimming pools
This is the fifth edition of CSA B140.12, Oil-fired service water heaters for domestic hot water, space heating, and swimming pools . It supersedes the previous edition, published in 2003 under the title Oil-Burning Equipment: Service Water Heaters for Domestic Hot Water, Space Heating, and Swimming Pools. It also supersedes the third edition, published in 1976 under the title Oil-Fired Service Water Heaters and Swimming Pool Heaters, and the first two editions, published in 1972 and 1966 under the title Oil-Fired Service Water Heaters. CSA B140.12 is one of a series of oil-burning equipment Standards providing minimum requirements for the safe operation, acceptable performance, design, construction, manufacture, marking, and testing of oil-burning equipment. It should be read in conjunction with CSA B140.0, Oil-burning equipment: General requirements. The major changes in this edition include the following
This Standard is considered suitable for use for conformity assessment within the stated scope of the Standard. This Standard was prepared by the Technical Committee on Oil-Burning Appliance Standards, under the jurisdiction of the Strategic Steering Committee on Fuels and Appliances, and has been formally approved by the Technical Committee. This Standard has been developed in compliance with Standards Council of Canada requirements for National Standards of Canada. It has been published as a National Standard of Canada by CSA Group
This Standard applies to complete flue-connected, oil-fired service water heaters that are provided with automatic control devices. These service water heaters may be used both for heating and for supplying of domestic hot water. They are not intended to be used as sole-source heating appliances.
The requirements in this Standard apply to
Heaters for swimming pool water Requirements for heaters for heating swimming pool water are included in Clause 11.
In this Standard, "shall" is used to express a requirement, i.e., a provision that the user is obliged to satisfy in order to comply with the Standard; "should" is used to express a recommendation or that which is advised but not required; and "may" is used to express that which is permissible within the limits of the Standard. Notes accompanying clauses do not include requirements or alternative requirements; the purpose of a note accompanying a clause is to separate from the text explanatory or informative material. Notes to tables and figures are considered part of the table or figure and may be written as requirements. Annexes are designated normative (mandatory) or informative (non-mandatory) to define their application.
The values given in SI units are the units of record for the purposes of this Standard. The values given in parentheses are for information and comparison only.
| SDO | CSA: Canadian Standards Association |
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| Publication Date | Jan. 1, 2022 |
| Language | en - English |
| Page Count | 57 |
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