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TEST YOUR SKILLS | Summer 2020

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 25 Aug 2020   Posted by BP Journal


In this installment of Test Your Skills we will look at one of the consequences of the installation of cross-connection protection on water systems. Let’s look at the phenomenon we call thermal expansion. We will dig a little deeper into this part of the cross-connection puzzle. It’s time to pick up your pencil and test your knowledge. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact our magazine’s technical editor; Sean Cleary at sean.cleary@iapmo.org

Summer 2020

Water is for all purposes:
When water is heated it:
The three states of matter are a solid, a liquid, or a gas principally depending on the:
When water is changed to steam it expands in volume about:
In a 30 gallon tank type water heater an increase in temperature from 60 to 140 degrees would:
The most common solution to controlling thermal expansion within a domestic water system in the installation of a properly sized temperature and pressure relief valve
When installing a diaphragm type thermal expansion tank the installer must:
Uncontrolled thermal expansion within a water system can create:
The air charge in a thermal expansion tank shall be:
The installation of containment backflow protection will result in the all of the following except:
A closed piping system is created from the installation of a backflow prevention assembly or a:
The water heating equipment that does not normally cause thermal expansion issues is the instantaneous type.
A heat exchanger installed to provide domestic hot water using a toxic fluid in the heating medium should:
The installation of cross-connection control protection will:
According to the 2021 Uniform Plumbing Code Excessive pressure within a buildings domestic water system is any pressure greater than:
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