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MasterPlumbers
CSST is now starting to make a market in California. When I size a gas system form UPC 2000 i USE TABLE 12-3. Now with CSST in have to use the pipe designers guide. One has 8 tables for natural gas. Mt question is on the table the have .05 psi gas pressure and a pressure drop of .5 wc, 1.0wc, 1.5wc, 2.0 wc 3.0wc and so on. How do you figure out and put into play these numbers of pressure drop? I know that it is pressure drop from loss due to friction but how is that figurer out? Any help would valued.
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Obviously you are not a licenced Gasfitter if so you would already know the answer to those questions. Why do you wish to establish the calculations in the manner you have specified.
Every Country has a different system of allowable pressure drops on various fuel gases, these drops are the maximum one is allowed with the varying inlet supply pressures feeding your pipework.
They have a dramatic effect on the required pipe sizing needed to complete the installation to ensure that there is suficient gas volume and pressure available at every appliance connected to the pipework.
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Peter,
Obviously you do not know the licencing requirement in California; otherwise, you would not be so hard on this guy. It does not take much to get a licence in CA. And you do not neccessarily need any kind of licence to pipe a house in California. Any Joe Blow working for a general contractor may pipe a house with a couple stipulations. I did not write the rules so please don’t yell at me about them. Maybe the liberals in CA think this is equal opportunity.
Mr Hime,
See 2000 UPC 1217.3: “pressure drop . . . will at no time exceed five-tenth (0.5) inches . . .” I do not know what tables you are looking at but they sound like longest run of pipe type tables. [img]null[/img] -
Phil
Thank you for your kind words – I rest my case!!!
Selgas Services Ltd
Craftsman Gasfitters, Plumbers, Electrical Service Technicians
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