Re: Why would a gas boiler make soot?

Jul 05, 2019 Last reply: 7 years ago 1 Replies

The analyzer is actually called a flue gas analyzer not and oxygen analyzer. A half decent one costs about $4500 CAD.



Second of all there is no guarantee that the ?speeder jets? are blocked because there is a hundred different styles of burners. They all don?t have spreader jets.



As a 20 industrial boiler technician I?ll say soot usually comes from



- poor combustion air/ or a negative pressure in the room that the boiler sits in



- a dirty of damaged burner. (Most new residential high efficiency boilers use a mesh grill, so it?s probably not damaged.



- newer high efficiency boiler use zero governing gas valves. These valves mix the air and gas. So a faulty one of these would cause your boiler to soot up for sure(I think your engineer fixed the problem)



Last but not least, if the flame is blue, I doubt you?re still sooting. However the boiler more than likely modulates and the flame could be blue at %75 but yellow at %10 so you really need to check the flame in %10 increments


Nice! You have proved that general public knowledge is 90% polluted. Free commentators pls refrain from speculation on deadly stuff like CO!

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