Siphonic Roof Drains

The water is sucked or siphoned from the roof down into the drain at high velocity.

Siphonic roof drains.

Uv system products are 100 baa compliant and manufactured from 304 stainless steel cast aluminum and galvanized steel. Siphonic drainage systems can be used to drain a roof if the following criteria are met. Uv system designs and supplies its line of top performing siphonic roof drains to projects throughout the united states canada and mexico. A siphonic roof drain has a special insert that acts as an air baffle and anti vortex vane such that only water is drawn off of the roof not air.

Smith s siphonic roof drains have a polyethylene dome strainer to help protect the baffle from debris accumulation and allow for the passage of water even if debris collects around the strainer base. Baffle and prevents air and debris from entering the piping system at full flow allowing the pipes to completely fill up with water. Siphonic drains are like other roof drains in that they are connected from the roof to the storm drain by a series of leaders or downspouts. Providing more efficient drainage our hydromax siphonic roof drainage solutions will use less pipe material and save you money.

Wh 300 400 500 600 siphonic primary roof drain. Despite what its name may suggest the process of syphonic drainage does not actually involve the syphoning of water at all. In a world where our weather patterns are becoming more extreme hydromax provide world leading siphonic syphonic drainage solutions for a range of projects. Adequate difference in height of at least four metres between the roof and the buried drains.

Instead syphonic drainage technology employs the use of a gravity induced vacuum pump to remove water at high velocity from multiple roof drains at once. Wade siphonic drainage design request. This design makes our siphonic. Drainage of large roof surfaces requiring a minimum outflow capacity of 1 0 l s.

Several of these drains tie into a horizontal collector that is routed to a convenient point where it transitions into a vertical downpipe. Wh 301 401 501 601 siphonic overflow drain. The main difference is that the siphonic drainage system is designed to run completely full of water whereas the conventional gravity drainage system is designed to run only 1 2 full 1 2 empty. By contrast a fully engineered siphonic roof drainage system contains an anti vortex plate that acts as a.