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Minimum flow rate required for unvented domestic hot water system
Many thanks to Andy Hall and others for their help earlier this year on the
design of my new plumbing system (http://tinyurl.com/3pwck etc.). Unfortunately, thanks to a few months illness, I'm still at it - with a few issues to resolve. A question regarding an unvented domestic hot water system: Cambridge Water tested my incoming main supply and informed me that the pressure = 2.8 bar and the flow rate = 25 litres per minute. Is this sufficiently high for an unvented supply feeding a family home containing two power showers, a bath, five sinks, three toilets, a washing machine and a dishwasher? My feeling is that it isn't. At worst, I would guess that only one shower and the bath would be running concurrently. Even so, a power shower consumes 15 lpm and a bath consumes 20 lpm. Is there any way around this problem? A pump and hydraulic accumulator sounds expensive. Due to a loft conversion, there is not any convenient space for a cistern, although I'm thinking that I may have to create some... [For information, the hot water will be heated indirectly in a 250 litre tank by a condensing boiler. The mains supply pressure will be reduced (to 2 bar?) by a water softener, although a "high flow" softener, such as the Kinetico 2020c HF, will be fitted to minimise this problem.] Presumably the central heating could operate as a sealed system, even if the hot water tank is vented? TIA |
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