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Building Services Engineering 5th Edition Handbook

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208 Soil and waste systems<br />

Open to atmosphere<br />

Basin<br />

25 mm vent<br />

75 mm<br />

100 mm<br />

discharge<br />

stack<br />

P-trap<br />

32 mm waste pipe<br />

l 3 m maximum<br />

Cleaning access points<br />

7.3 Vented basin waste pipe.<br />

To drain<br />

Air drawn in<br />

Pipe friction<br />

Suction pressure<br />

produced at<br />

branch connection<br />

Vent<br />

Net effect<br />

of air inflow<br />

and pipe friction<br />

Three basins<br />

discharging<br />

simultaneously<br />

–ve suction<br />

0 +ve<br />

Atmospheric<br />

pressure<br />

Air static pressure in<br />

discharge stack<br />

7.4 Air static pressure distribution in soil and vent pipes.<br />

Air flow<br />

Fluid flow

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