Installation & Operation Manual
5
Hydronic piping
(continued)
It is required that boiler piping systems
utilize
Primary/Secondary or Fixed or
Variable Flow Primary
configurations as
shown in FIG.’s 5-2 thru 5-5. The use of
other boiler piping configurations could
result in improper building and system flow
rates leading to inadvertent boiler high limit
shutdowns and poor system performance.
NOTICE
The pressure drop reflected in FIG. 5-1 is
for the
boiler
only
. Additional allowances
must be made for piping, especially if
sizing pumps for Primary/Secondary
applications.
NOTICE
TEMPERATURE RISE APPLICATIONS
Model
BOILER
CONNECTION SIZE
20°F 40°F
60°F
GPM
FT/HD
GPM
FT/HD
GPM
FT/HD
FB 1500
4"
138
3.4
69
1.0
46
0.5
FB 2000
4"
184
4.1
92
1.2
61
0.6
FB 2500
4"
230
4.6
115
1.4
77
0.7
FB 3000
4"
276
5.6
138
1.7
92
0.8
FB 3500
4"
322
7.5
161
2.2
107
1.1
FB 4000
4"
248*
4.2
186
1.8
124
0.9
FB 5000
4"
310*
4.5
233
0.9
155
0.5
0.00
1.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
6.00
7.00
8.00
9.00
10.00
11.00
12.00
13.00
14.00
15.00
16.00
17.00
18.00
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
220
240
260
280
300
320
340
Pressure Drop
(Feet of H
ead)
Flow Rate (GPM)
CREST Pressure Drop Curve
FB1500
FB2000
FB2500
FB3000
FB3500
FB4000
FB5000
Figure 5-1 Pressure Drop vs. Flow
Table 5A Sizing Information for Temperature Rise Applications_20°F, 40°F and 60°F
25
Circulator sizing
The Crest heat exchanger does have a pressure drop, which must be considered in your system design. Refer to the graph in
FIG. 5-1 for pressure drop through the Crest heat exchanger.
[Models FB 1500 - 3500 based on 92% AHRI Effi ciency and Models FB 4000 - 5000 based on 93% Effi ciency]
*Flow is based on 30°F
T.