Technical Paper #6 Relief Vent Piping Per ASHRAE 15-2004 — Don Faust and Brian Peterson
Technical Paper #6 Relief Vent Piping per ASHRAE 15-2004 Don Faust and Brian Peterson Gartner Refrigeration & Manufacturing, Inc. Plymouth, Minnesota Abstract Sizing ammonia relief vents, once a simple process, has become more complicated as safety codes have evolved. In recent years, code officials have been scrutinizing vent pipe sizing much more heavily. The latest release of the ASHRAE Safety Standard for Refrigeration Systems devotes considerable ink to the sizing of relief vents, and provides the user with an equation for determining pressure drop in relief piping. This paper will show how to use the ASHRAE equation to solve for the pressure drop in relief vent piping, how to select a relief valve and three-way valve, and also show some strategies to bring existing nonconforming installations into compliance with the code. 2005 IIAR Ammonia Refrigeration Conference & Exhibition, Acapulco, Mexico © IIAR 2005 213 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The success of the technical program of the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration is due to the quality of the technical papers in this volume. IIAR expresses its deep appreciation to the authors, reviewers, and editors for their contributions to the ammonia refrigeration industry. Board of Directors, International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration ABOUT THIS VOLUME IIAR Technical Papers are subjected to rigorous technical peer review. The views expressed in the papers in this volume are those of the authors, not the International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration. They
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