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Bock Water Heater Engineering Manual

The Bock Water Heater Engineering Manual is available in PDF format. You can download each section of the manual by clicking on the section titles below. The contents of each section are listed below the links.

Contents (462 KB Adobe PDF)

• Table of Contents
• Warnings and Cautionary Statements
• The Bock Story
• Comparisons of Fuel Prices and Operating Costs
• Estimated Annual Cost of Operation; Oil-Fired Units
• Estimated Annual Cost of Operation; Gas Units and Electrical Units
• General Information
• Oil-fired Water Heater Installation, Pipe Sizes, Alternatives
• Piping Fuel Lines for Bock Oil-fired Water Heaters
• Installing Bock Gas Water Heaters

Sizing Guide (136 KB Adobe PDF)

• General Sizing Formula, Sizing for BTUH Input
• Indirect Water Heater Applications
• Multiple Dwelling Buildings
• Expansion Tank Sizing
• Hair Salons, Barber Shops, Car Washes, Places of Worship, Schools
• Industrial Plants, Dairy Barns, Care Centers, Dorms, Office Buildings, Clubs
• Hot Water Requirements for Fixtures and Machines
• Shower Head Availability
• Food Service Establishments
• Machine Dishwasher Requirements
• Self-Service and Commercial Laundries, Swimming Pools, Hot Tubs, Baptistries

Venting (472 KB Adobe PDF)

• Venting the Water Heater, Types of Venting, Individual Vents
• The Common Vent
• Combustion/Ventilation Air, Balanced Combustion System, Insufficient or Excessive Draft
• Barometric Draft Controls, Power Vent Selection Tjernlund Products
• Power Vent Selection Field Controls, Draft Inducer

Installation and Hookups (477 KB Adobe PDF)

• Specialized Installation Hookups
• Coil Tank Installation
• System Plus Installation
• Radiant Heating
• Combined Appliance Sizing
• Multiple Hookups: Parallel, Series, Isolating, Reverse Storage Tank
• Isolating Series, Reverse Storage Tank System Hookups
• Weights, Measures, Metric Conversions

Tables (330 KB Adobe PDF)

• Vent Tables
• Delivery and Recovery Tables
• Measuring Combustion Efficiency Using Oxygen (O2), Maximum Flow in GPM
• Glossary of Terms
• Sample Specifications

IBC (82 KB Adobe PDF)

• Oil-Fired Commercial Water Heaters
• Residential / Commercial Gas Water Heaters
• Large Oil, Gas & Dual Fuel Water Heaters

Multi-Flue Water Heater Sample Specifications (16 KB Adobe PDF)

• General
• Gas
• Dual Fuel
• Oil

Glossary of Terms (32 KB Adobe PDF)

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