What is Carbon Monoxide?
Carbon monoxide is a highly poisonous gas with no taste, no colour and no smell. It can be produced when any fossil fuel such as coal, wood or natural gas is burned and there is not enough air supply. Carbon monoxide kills up to 30 people each year and many more are seriously injured. It can escape into your home if a gas appliance is not installed correctly or serviced regularly.
Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas that can occur in homes and buildings where combustion by-products are generated and allowed to disperse. It is colorless, odorless, tasteless and it is an asphyxiant. As a poison, it is deadly at high levels. At low concentrations, CO can go undetected and contribute to nagging illnesses. It can compound pre-existing health problems and can go unblamed in premature deaths. How is carbon monoxide formed? How is it measured? Carbon monoxide is a result of unburned fuel. Fossil fuels require specific ranges of oxygen and temperature to allow for complete combustion. CO production is commonly associated with insufficient combustion air. However, excess introduction of combustion air (or insufficient fuel supply) can reduce flame temperatures to the point where CO is produced. When any portion of a flame is reduced below 1128, CO will be produced. Flame impingement on heat exchanger surfaces, for example, can also result in lowering flame temperature and CO p
Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas that can occur in homes and buildings where combustion by-products are generated or allowed to disperse. It is colorless, odorless, tasteless and non-irritating; it is an asphyxiant. As a poison, it can be deadly at high levels. At low concentrations, CO can go undetected and contribute to nagging illnesses. It can compound pre-existing health problems and can go unblamed in premature deaths. How is carbon monoxide formed? How is it measured? Carbon monoxide is a condition of unburned fuel. Fossil fuels and their by-products used for heat energy need proper amounts of oxygen for complete combustion and controlled temperature production. We are mixing the molecules of oxygen from our air (which makes up 20.9% of our air with nitrogen (N) making up almost 79% of the remaining) with molecules of fuel and igniting them. If we have completely burned all of our molecules of fuel and discharged the remaining by-products out of the way, we should not have any mea
