As part of their natural gas projects, gas distribution companies have to evaluate and check natural gas chimney systems. But confirming the accuracy of an entire natural gas system takes time, as one has to review the information on every part of the system, from the furnace or boiler connected to the system to the individual components of the chimney. In many chimney programs, this data can be altered by the user, and the slightest modification of even a single part of the system can affect the specifications of everything else, meaning that calculations for the entire system have to be redone and approved by an accredited organization. Complicating matters further, any change to the specifications of a system may also necessitate changes to the components and materials used in the system, such as the chimney cap or the chimney material and thickness. Because of these complications, making, monitoring, and taking the requisite steps to account for changes to natural gas chimney systems is often a difficult task for gas distributors.
Additionally, users can add their own devices and chimney products to the catalog options for use in their designs. The specifications of these items are added separately to the chimney calculation report sent to gas distributors for easy evaluation and review.
On ChimneyMaster, you can see data at your desired level of granularity in the chimney calculation reports, and you can also create a specialized report structure for natural gas chimney systems. In this way, gas distributors have access to as much or as little data as they need, and they can easily examine the accuracy of this data thanks to the color-coded highlights applied to the report.
