The document discusses standard working pressures for different piping materials used in domestic hot water and heating applications. It provides a table summarizing the working pressures in bars for piping classes according to material and application. The document also provides a table showing dimensional equivalences between piping materials like galvanized steel, polybutylene (PB), polypropylene-random (PP-R), cross-linked polyethylene (PE-X), and more. The equivalence is based on internal diameter and nominal diameter. The final selection is determined by the designer while considering that plastic piping allows for higher fluid velocities.
The document discusses standard working pressures for different piping materials used in domestic hot water and heating applications. It provides a table summarizing the working pressures in bars for piping classes according to material and application. The document also provides a table showing dimensional equivalences between piping materials like galvanized steel, polybutylene (PB), polypropylene-random (PP-R), cross-linked polyethylene (PE-X), and more. The equivalence is based on internal diameter and nominal diameter. The final selection is determined by the designer while considering that plastic piping allows for higher fluid velocities.
The document discusses standard working pressures for different piping materials used in domestic hot water and heating applications. It provides a table summarizing the working pressures in bars for piping classes according to material and application. The document also provides a table showing dimensional equivalences between piping materials like galvanized steel, polybutylene (PB), polypropylene-random (PP-R), cross-linked polyethylene (PE-X), and more. The equivalence is based on internal diameter and nominal diameter. The final selection is determined by the designer while considering that plastic piping allows for higher fluid velocities.
The document discusses standard working pressures for different piping materials used in domestic hot water and heating applications. It provides a table summarizing the working pressures in bars for piping classes according to material and application. The document also provides a table showing dimensional equivalences between piping materials like galvanized steel, polybutylene (PB), polypropylene-random (PP-R), cross-linked polyethylene (PE-X), and more. The equivalence is based on internal diameter and nominal diameter. The final selection is determined by the designer while considering that plastic piping allows for higher fluid velocities.
The standards for each product establish the working pressures for each piping series and application (domestic hot water or heating) according to the previous calculations. The table below summarises the working pressures for each class of application and material, according to the aforementioned standards, for the piping series S5:
Working pressures APPLICATION CLASS PB PEX PP-R PE-RT I PP-RTC PVC-C Domestic hot water at 60º Class 1 10 6 6 6 6 8 Domestic hot water at 70º Class 2 10 6 4 4 6 8 Heating at low temperature Class 4 10 8 6 6 6 - Heating at high temperature Class 5 8 6 - 4 4 -
* Pressures in bar. * Categories 4 and 5 are not applicable for PVC-C.
4.8. Dimensional equivalences
In accordance with the above, and in view of the availability of standardised dimensions for each material, the correspondence of commercial piping between materials is set out below.
The equivalence shall be made according to the internal diameter, which is what provides the flow and defines the nominal diameter (ND) in Central European countries, as opposed to the Spanish criterion of defining the ND by the external diameter, as indicated in the product standards. Remember that, beyond the following equivalence, the final selection is determined by the designer, but that in any event plastic piping, and especially PB, permits higher fluid velocities, so the interior diameters of the pipes are always smaller.
* Considered ½” due to the greater flow rate permitted in PB
* * Official conversion by the manufacturer
Note: Due to its low roughness, PB piping can transport fluid at higher velocities, therefore small- er diameters can be used to transport the same flow.
