Design Considerations for Water Pressure Reducing Valve (PRV) Stations in Commercial Buildings

Pressure Reducing Valve (PRV) Stations are a significant segment of a water-conveyance framework in a commercial building. The 2015 Uniform Plumbing Code Section 608.2 states that PRVs are required anytime where the framework static pressure surpasses 80 PSI. Ordinarily, this applies to mid-and tall structures when the pressure support required at the ground floor to serve the upper floors in the building is more than 80 PSI. When designing a PRV Station, you should consider the station pressure drop, water stream, and wellbeing gadgets. ​

To compute the Pressure Drop over the PRV Station, we need to determine the inlet and outlet pressures. The inlet pressure is determined by the PRV area in the building. The lower the PRV is in the building, the higher the static inlet pressure will be. Commonly, the PRVs are taken care of by a Pressure Boosting System that takes care of the whole building, so the inlet pressure may likewise change a touch of, depending on the interest in the remainder of the building. 

The outlet pressure is determined by two components. First is the quantity of floors the PRV Station is serving, and the subsequent factor is whether the station is feeding the floors above or underneath the station. A decent dependable guideline is that each floor will bring about a pressure change of 5 PSI. In the event that the floors took care of by the PRV Station are the floors above, at that point, you would require a higher outlet pressure at the PRV Station (around 65 to 75 PSI) on the grounds that the pressure will drop around 5 PSI each floor higher in the piping. On the off chance that the PRV Station is feeding the floors underneath, the outlet pressure would be lower (around 40 to 50 PSI) in light of the fact that the pressure will increase 5 PSI for each floor lower in the piping. 

We suggest keeping the pressure drop over any single PRV to under 100 PSI to evade lackluster showing, cavitation, commotion, and valve harm. 

The water-stream requests of a PRV Station rely upon the number of apparatuses being served by the station and can be determined using Hunter's Curve, which unfortunately doesn't represent the decent variety in the framework request. In the event that the building's water stream is overestimated, PRVs will in general be curiously large and don't perform well at incomplete burden conditions. Combining two valves in corresponding with High and Low Flow Valves assists with keeping the two valves operating within their design conditions overall heap requests. 

At the point when a Pressure Reducing Valve comes up short, high-pressure water will be permitted to go through the station to the installations downstream. By code, an extension tank or alleviation valve is required downstream of the PRV. We suggest the utilization of an immediate acting alleviation valve, alongside a control framework to close down the water stream. 

A pressure switch detects the high pressure downstream of the PRV and signs the control board to close the square valve. The control board additionally imparts the caution sign to the building management framework to alarm the building engineers. Likewise, with Level Control Systems, we generally suggest monitoring these alert yields.
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