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Water Heaters (Calefones)

Water hammer in water tanks?

edugues
edugues
128
hace 6 años
hace 6 años
Hi, I had or I have, because I don't know if it was solved. We have 30 years ago, a small building, which basically has a 7m high tank, a single 32mm downpipe in threaded PPN and feeds 5 apartments all on the ground floor (I will try to send a scheme) are 5 units, all on the ground floor, forming a strip, with its aisle on one side. The 32mm PPN drop goes through all the apartments above the ceiling and in each one, it has a tee for cold water and another for hot water, that is to the hot water tank, all with their stopcocks, relief valve. So it always worked without problems, beyond thermos changes, etc.- Yesterday several people call me saying that the descent made noise, I went to see and as such towards an incredible patter, like water hammering one after another, close a key step down and stopped. Within an hour or a little more, the thermos of apartment 2 broke the cold water hose and a stream of water and steam began to flow at very high pressure. We close the gas, let it depressurize and leave it to check the control, which seems to not close. three hours later, the neighbor of the 1 called, that his hot water tank loses through the connections and high pressure steam comes out x the faucets. We turn it off and depressurize too. The thing is already very rare. The next day we see that the loss loses by several threads of 30 years, we review both thermoses, we solve losses of descent and thermos connections, we fix flexible broken, we turn both and both turn on and off normally. So I remain. What could happen? evidently it is very strange that they simultaneously fail and do not cut the regulator, to inject steam under pressure in the descent without water (I remember that we close it x the ram) I never saw this, that the water tanks produce those events in a building. What do you think???
mariotti luis marcos
hace 6 años

The vacuum breaker is for building columns so when the column is emptied the vacuum that occurs behind the water when going down does not aspirate sewage from the bidet into the column. If the circuit is open to any failure of a thermos the pressure is released to the tank greetings

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edugues
edugues
128
hace 6 años

yes, correct, I will use it for the latter and avoid having another similar problem

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mariotti luis marcos
hace 6 años
hace 6 años
hello: the fault could be a thermos that did not cut over temperature and the pressure began to recede through the column of cold water towards the tank producing the tapping, when closing the stopcock of the descent you closed the circuit and the pressure did not have where to go back for that reason the flexible one exploded the relief valves are calibrated to open at 4 kg cm2 but if they have a time of placed they oxidize and lock because of this the flexible one could also break the pipe, you have to find the thermos that Failure make sure that the tank never runs out of water so that the circuit does not enter the air and causes the thermos to fail in a chain, make a separate descent only to feed the thermos that is open, do not place loose valve stopcocks because they act as a valve of retention they let the water pass but not to return it places only spherical keys or exclusive any doubt comments greetings
edugues
edugues
128
hace 6 años

Perfect, the hot water tank that I suspect, yesterday threw steam under pressure at its faucets and lost its connections, today I saw that it was punctured, that has a spherical key, so surely this one sent downward pressure and re-pressurized it. I never saw, that a TT. I would do that patter, I think now to put a breaker down so that it does not pressurize and if it happens start to throw steam with water and nothing is damaged, thank you.-

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