REVERSE RETURN SYSTEM

Chuck Mac

You can't pump steam?
My Grandfather once sent me to get a bucket of steam !!
LOL sorry I couldn't resist
Never heard of a dead leg on hot water must be dead heading
I guess

mel skinner

On a REVERSE RETURN system, the architect refers to a DEAD LEG in the condensate water piping. Can anyone please ellaborate on a DEAD LEG ?

Unknown

Dead leg?

I'm still confused by condensate in a reverse return system.

What kind of machine might we be talking about?

Keith_8

Dead Leg?

Reverse return system is a piping scheme used on hot water heating systems. A similiar piping detail is used for multiple hot water heaters. Both are very effective methods of balancing flow.

Did the architect mean drip leg?

A drip leg would be used to catch moisture or sediment in gas piping or a steam system.

Keith

bigugh_4

Dead leg, refers to

A pumped system where the pump is running with no place for the flow to go. Two pipe reverse returns can do that if a scheme is not worked out for the minimum flow to always continue. I think the engineer confused the issue when he mixed the word condensate into the reverse return technology. Two different cats. Condensate is a steam htg. term and two pipe reverse return is a hot water term. (by the way you cannot pump steam.)

Unknown

Thanks, Gary

But what kind of machine IS he talking about?

and.....


WHERE THE HECK HAVE YOU BEEN????

Great to see you back!!!

How are you doing?

Noel

bigugh_4

Been here

but the computer thing had me off for a while, and then there is health. It is nice to B Back!

eleft_4

Carl PE_2

Why is..

Why is the architect designing the piping?

I have no idea what a "dead leg" is either.

jeff_51

refering to dead heading?

If this is what he is talking about, than either a wild loop or pressure actuated bypass. You need to call and clarify, as has been mentioned, he is mixing terms