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HEATING VENTILATING AIR CONDITIONING GUIDE. 1941 corrosion is taking place in the heating system supplied with steam from the same source. When corrosive conditions are believed to exist, their seriousness should be determined by actual measurement, rather than by inference from isolated instances of pipe failures. The National District Heating Associa tion has perfected a corrosion tester for measuring the inherent corrosive ness of existing conditions. This corrosion tester consists of a frame sup porting three coils of wire which are carefully weighed. After the tester has been inserted in the pipe line for a definite length of time, the loss of weight of the coils, referred to an established scale, indicates the relative corrosiveness of the condensate. Accompanying such corrosion measure ments, a careful chemical analysis should be made of the condensate, and the findings will serve as a basis for an intelligent study of the problem. Corrosion, if found to exist, can be lessened or overcome by several means. If the steam supply is found to be definitely contaminated, proper chemical treatment of the water, followed by deaeration, is an obvious remedy. The leaks in the piping system, particularly in vacuum systems, should be stopped so far as is practicable. Some success has been reported with the use of inhibitors, chief amongwhich are oil, and sodium silicate. Oil may be fed into the main steamsupply pipe by means of a sight-feed lubricator. The type of oil known as 600-W is usually recommended. In the present state of knowledge on this point, the quantity to be fed can best be determined by trial. The use of sodium silicate, fed in a similar manner, is reported to be successful but it has not been widely used. In view of the fact that corrosion is most frequently found in the return lines from special equipment, which constitute a relatively small part of the total piping in a building, a simple solution of the corrosion problem may be to use non-corroding materials in those certain portions of the piping system, since the higher cost will usually be an unappreciable portioirof the total.' Brass ahd copper are undoubtedly iess subject to this type of corrosion tban the ferrous metals, and considerable attention is 'now being given tb corrosion-resistant linings for ferrous pipe. Cast-irOn pipe, sometimes alloyed,.with other metals, also deserves .consideration. 344 Chapter 18 GRAVITY WARM AIR FURNACE SYSTEMS Design Procedure, Estimating Heating Requirements, Leader Pipe Sizes, Proportioning Wall Stacks, Register Selections, Recirculating Ducts and Grilles, Furnace Return Connection, Furnace Capacity, Examples, Booster Fans WARM air heating systems of the gravity type are described in this chapter1, and those of the mechanical type are described in Chapter 19. In the gravity type, the motive head producing flow depends upon the difference in weight between the heated air leaving the top of the casing and the cooled air entering the bottom of the casing, while in the mechanical type a fan may supply all or part of the motive head. Booster fans are often used in conjunction with gravity-designed systems to increase air circulation. In general, a warm-air furnace heating plant consists of a fuel-burning furnace or heater, enclosed in a casing of sheet metal or brick, which is placed in the basement of the building. The heated air, taken from the top or sides near the top of the furnace casing, is distributed to the various rooms of the building through sheet metal warm-air pipes. .The warm-air pipes in the basement are known as leaders, and the vertical warm-air pipes which are run in the inside partitions of the building are called stacks. The heated air is finally discharged into the rooms through registers which are set in register boxes placed either in the floor or in the side wall, usually at or near the baseboard. The air supply to the furnace may be taken (1) entirely from inside the building through one or more recirculating ducts, (2) entirely from outside the building, in which case no air is recirculated, or (3) through a combination of the inside and the outside air supply systems. DESIGN PROCEDURE The design of a furnace heating system involves the determination of the-following items: . 1. Heat loss in Btu from each room in the building. 2. Area and diameter in inches of warm-air pipes in basement (known as leaders). 3. Area and dimensions in inches of vertical pipes (known as wall stacks). 4. Free and gross area and dimensions in inches of warm-air registers. 5. Area and dimensions of,recirculating or outside air ducts, in inches. 6. Free and gross area and dimensions in inches of recirculating registers. `All figures and much of theengiheering data which follow are from University of Illinois, Engineering Experiment Stoiton Bulletins Nos'. 141, 188..189 and 246; Warm Air Furnaces and Heating Systems, by A. C. Willard, A. P. Kratz, V. S. Day, and S. Konzo. 345