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Ex tanks problem

Jobber
Jobber Member Posts: 7
in THE MAIN WALL
Have boiler system with steel ex tanks. Pumping away from them with main pump but 4 boilers in the system have inducer pumps that pump towards the ex tanks. Has anyone seen this sort of set up? Having problems with ex tanks constantly water logging

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  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040
    Air trol

    Do the tanks have those B&G Airtrol fittings with the tube that extends into the tanks?
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • Jobber
    Jobber Member Posts: 7
    Air trol

    Yes they have airtrol fittings. Just thought it was odd that it is pumping away and towards ex tanks
  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040
    Air removal?

    Any air removal devises on the system?
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • Jobber
    Jobber Member Posts: 7
    Ias

    Yes there is a b and g in line air separator and the ex tanks are piped out he top of it and the feed water goes into the bottom
  • nicholas bonham-carter
    nicholas bonham-carter Member Posts: 8,578
    Where's the air

    Where can the air in the tank go? Does it dissolve into the water?--NBC
  • Jobber
    Jobber Member Posts: 7
    Air

    That is a good question and the problem. I don't know where the air cushion goes but after a couple of weeks it's gone and the peg to off and the auto fill will put water in and the ex tanks need to be set
  • Jobber
    Jobber Member Posts: 7
    Air

    Suppose to say prv go off. Sorry
  • gennady
    gennady Member Posts: 839
    edited October 2013
    piping

    are those boilers piped as shown in attached diagram?
    Gennady Tsakh
    Absolute Mechanical Co. Inc.
  • Jobber
    Jobber Member Posts: 7
    Boiler piping

    Close but the booster pumps are on the supply side and it isn't primary secondary loop and it has steel ex tanks
  • VA_Bear
    VA_Bear Member Posts: 50
    Automatic Air Bleeders

    Does the system have automatic air bleeders? Iron expansion tanks can lose air by redissolving air into the water and losing it from the air bleeders instead of recycling it back to the expansion tank, but that is usually a fairly slow process. Have you checked the tank and the air separator to tank piping for trace leaks, allowing the air to leak out above the water line? Dies the tank have a sight glass column? The valves are a common point of unnoticed air leaks when the valves are left open all the time as are the threads of the valve connections.

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