BURNER MANAGEMENT - Field Guide to NFPA 86

BURNER MANAGEMENT: Field Guide to NFPA 86
By Andrew Wells

This isn’t a code book — it’s what comes after.
Written by a Navy veteran and field engineer with decades of combustion experience, Burner Management: Field Guide to NFPA 86 translates the standard into real-world practice.

From purge to pilot to flame supervision, every chapter walks through how the code actually lives in wire, logic, and flame. You’ll learn what NFPA 86 requires — and why — through practical explanations, field stories, and hard-earned lessons from systems that failed, survived, and ran right.

Whether you’re an automation engineer, technician, or plant operator, this book shows how to design, wire, test, and trust a safe combustion system.

Because safe fire doesn’t happen by accident — it happens by design.