Carbon monoxide in products of combustion from natural gas burners

Abstract

Many natural-gas appliances are notoriously inefficient.Solid top stoves with low set burners and grid top stoves with low set burners consume two to eight times as much gas as stoves with raised burners and grid tops. On account of the liberation of carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas, with the products of combustion when the flame is improperly aerated it is not practical to place burners at the distance from utensils where the maximum efficiency is obtained.

A Proposal for Evaluating Human Exposure to Carbon Monoxide Contamination in Military Vehicles

“…These effects were described in terms of the apparent physical influence upon the exposed individual as a function of both exposure level and duration. They suggested the use of four simple equations to -'efine five individual hazard zones of CO exposure inciuding "death," "dangerous to life," "headache and nausea," "perceptible effects" and "no perceptible effects" in their 1921 publication (6). Figure 2 illustrates these hazard zones defined 1-y Henderson U al.…”

“…I references 2, 16, 22,23,13,15,6,5). The absorption rate, which is partlh a function of the work activity level (14) of the individual, determines the content of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) in the blood.…”