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Can the Lowly Stop-valve Sink Your Best Water
Conservation Efforts?
Authors:Paul Woods, D. E. D., RA
Joon Sub Lee, MSCMJiyoung Jung, MSCMShriram Joshi, MSCM
Gunhui Jo, MSCM studentAmarendra Chaugule, MSCM student
Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, Texas
Study Objective
Determine if the stop-valve has a significant effect on the liters per flush of flush-valve water closets.
Importance
If the stop valve adjustment affects gallons/flush, then this should be part of any building commissioning process.
What is a stop valve?
How can it be adjusted?
Subject Building
Typical Restroom Plans
Sample Selection
16 Automatic flush-valve water closets10 from women’s restrooms6 from men’s restrooms
Experimental Setup
The Data
An observational unit is the water closet, automatic flush valve and stop valve combination.The population of interest is all the automatic flush-valve water closets in Langford Architecture Building A
Variables
stop-valve position measured in quarter of turn increments from the full open positionliters per flush
Number of Observations5 observations per stop valve position per fixtureThe number of valve turns from full open to full closed ranged from 2.75 to 3.25 per fixture
FindingsTable 1.
Maximum and minimum flow
Fixture 1w1 1w3 1w2 1m1 4w2 4m2 4m1 2m2
% Spec 164% 139% 151% 155% 145% 127% 134% 143%
Max 9.84 8.34 9.06 9.3 8.68 7.64 8.03 8.59
Min 4.47 4.5 4.07 3.45 .75 2.37 2.6 3.17
% Spec 74% 75% 68% 58% 12% 39% 43% 53%
Findings (cont) Avg all
Fixture 2w3 2w2 2w1 2m1 3w4 3w1 3m2 3w3 fixtures
% Spec 169% 129% 83% 113% 150% 143% 151% 146% 145%
Max 10.11 7.74 4.98 6.79 8.99 8.58 9.03 8.75 8.68
Min 4.57 3.83 1.53 3.38 2.91 3.18 3.41 3.61 3.17
% Spec 76% 64% 25% 56% 48% 53% 57% 60% 53%
Findings (cont)WaterCloset-Liters per Flush
0.00
2.00
4.00
6.00
8.00
10.00
12.00
0 1/ 2 1 1- 1/ 2 2 2- 1/ 2 3
Stop Valve Position: Full Open to Full Closed
1Ww11Ww31Ww21Mw14Ww24Mw24Mw12Mw22Ww32Ww22Ww12Mw13Ww43Ww13Mw23Ww3
Conclusions and Recommendations
The conclusion of this study is that the stop-valve position alone could increase or decrease water consumption for flush-valve fixtures in office buildings by 50%. The potential magnitude of this effect requires that rigorous methods be developed to insure that this valve is set properly
Questions?