Plumbing
The category of drainage water from a kitchen sink
What is Black Water
An exterior location on a building for fire fighters to attach their hoses
What is a FDC, Fire Department Connection
CUH
What is a Cabinet Unit Heater?
A heat rejection device in an AC system that mixes air with cooling water to reduce the temp of water and physically remove the heat from the system into the atmosphere.
What is a Cooling Tower?
This electrical wiring device used for controlling flow of circuits to loads
What is a switch?
Uses hard 90 degree turns, can be used to throttle flow, typically in water or gas supply lines.
What is a ball valve
A vertical piping system intended for hoses to be connected to at various locations within a building
What is a Standpipe or Riser
A 2 pipe system which has a supply and return line run in parallel through the system to help control the balance in the system - first unit supplied is the last unit returned.
What is a Reverse Return System?
In an absorption chiller, where the heat source enters the system, boils the diluted solution and separates it into refrigerant vapor and concentrated absorbent.
What is the Generator?
A system of electrical conductors in a generating or receiving station on which power is concentrated for distribution. Typically used for high current power distribution.
What is a Bus Bar?
Prevents backflow, requires pressure from fluid to allow mechanism to open
What is a check valve
This division is where you would find specifications for the Fire Alarm
A mechanical component in a steam heating system that recovers heat that otherwise would be lost through the system - to preheat the boiler feed water.
What is an Economizer?
In an absorption chiller, this uses high pressure liquid refrigerant to absorb heat in the chilled water being recycled from the building.
What is the Evaporator?
This is the measurement of brightness of a lamp.
What is Lumens or Footcandles?
What is a DFU (Drainage Fixture Unit)
Water, Foam , Gasses and Dry Chemicals
What are Fire Suppression Mediums?
Regulates air flow on an exterior wall - usually for exhaust systems.
What is a Louver?
In an absorption chiller, this turns high pressure refrigerant into high pressure liquid and rejects heat from the system through the cooling water.
What is a Condenser?
The device that converts DC to AC Power.
What is an Inverter?
The 4 main types of plumbing systems
Water Supply, Storm, Sanitary, and Natural Gas
A device near a building entrance to indicate the location of a fire within a building - often linked with building communication systems.
What is an Annunciator Panel?
This device picks up heat that would typically be exhausted out of a building and uses a heat exchanger to transfer that heat back through a forced air system.
What is an Energy Recovery Ventilator - ERV
In an absorption Chiller, this enters the chiller in the absorber, pulls heat out of the air conditioning system, exits through the condenser and rejects that heat into the atmosphere.
What is Chilled Water?
This distribution of AC power using a system in which all voltages of the supply vary in unison - voltages peak twice per cycle in this system so the power is not constant.
What is Single Phase Electrical Power.