Automatic Air Vent For Sprinkler System

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Automatic air vent for sprinkler system.

Purgenvent air venting valves help reduce corrosion in the fire sprinkler pipe and help extend the life of your system by removing air. There is no requirement to pipe an air vent automatic or manual to a discharge. The metravent automatic air vent meets the new npfa 13 requirement for venting air in a wet pipe system. Potter air vents potter offers the only ul listed fm approved automatic air vents for fire sprinkler systems.

The product is also available as a paar b with drip pan. What is the purpose. Nfpa 13 2016 standard requires the use of one air venting valve per system. Sprinkler system expansion tanks.

Why should i use this. The 2016 nfpa 13 requires a single air vent be installed for each web fire sprinkler system to reduce corrosion activity due to trapped air. Test and drain valves. Aav automatic air vent.

System components fab toggle sub menu. It is designed to reduce the amount of air in a fire sprinkler system will little or no maintenance. Reducing the amount of air in a fire sprinkler system is essential to help protect the system piping from the effects of corrosion that is often found at the air water interface in the fire sprinkler system piping. The potter pav is a ul listed and fm approved automatic air vent for fire sprinkler systems.

Mounted at high points within your fire sprinkler piping system metravents will remove air pockets providing an inexpensive and positive method to remove air in the system helping to reduce corrosion activity. Automatically allows trapped air to escape the pipe network as the system is filled with water. Air water and steel must be present for corrosion to occur. Aav automatic air vent.

The pav is an automatic float type air vent used to reduce the amount of air trapped in a pressurized fire sprinkler system.