Steam System Nomenclature

stormbytes

Please explain the following terms:

1. Runouts

2. Take-offs

3. Risers

4. Drips

Feel free to add more anatomy if I left any out

Tia!

PS: Already bought / reading Dan’s book.

EBEBRATT-Ed

Runout a pipe feeding or returning from a radiator consisting of horizontal and vertical pipe
Take off a run out's or branch pipe connection to supply or return main
Risers a vertical pipe could be supply or return with flow up or down
Drips a pipe dripping (draining) condensate from a steam pipe either from a main, riser or runout
or branch

Steam branchor a pipe with a take off from a steam supply or return main that feeds several takeoffs
return branch

Some might call a branch a sub main

stormbytes

@EBEBRATT-Ed

Thanks for that info!

What's the difference between a runout and a takeoff ?

ratio

The runout starts at a takeoff.

stormbytes

@ratio

ratio said:

The runout starts at a takeoff.

What do you call a pipe that leaves the main and connects to a radiator? Its as if its both?

ratio

The takeoff is where the runout attaches to the main.