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.
How do siphonic roof drains work.
A constituent part of the hydromax siphonic system is the special hydromax siphonic roof drain.
Those roofs benefit from siphonic drainage systems.
Interior drains work best when the roof is sloped to allow water to gather at the drainage point.
Siphonic drainage is actually very simple in principle and all systems work in exactly the same.
Unlike traditional roof drainage which is designed to flow part full a syphonic system operates at full capacity when water is sucked or syphoned from the roof down into the drain at high velocity.
Several of these drains tie into a horizontal collector that is routed to a convenient point where it transitions into a vertical downpipe.
However that isn t always enough.
A hydromax siphonic roof drainage system utilises the full height of the building to provide the energy to create a powerful siphonic action.
The piping system is empty prior to a storm event occurrence.
Despite what its name may suggest the process of syphonic drainage does not actually involve the syphoning of water at all.
By contrast a fully engineered siphonic roof drainage system contains an anti vortex plate that acts as a.
Activated by rainfall filling the drain above its anti vortex plate air flow to the pipe is then cut off the natural gravitational flow vacuums water horizontally away from the roof structure pumping rainfall towards a single downpipe to an end point of your choice.
A collection of elements combine to create the hydromax siphonic roof drainage system.
The fullflow system allows architects consultants and contractors alike to specify a lower number of roof outlet drains and have them flow into a single downpipe.
This pump requires no external power as it is activated by rainfall filling the drain beyond its anti vortex plate at which point air flow to the pipe is cut off.
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.
So interior drains can be used in combination with scuppers which drain water at the edge of the roof.
Baffle plates inserted in the outlets restrict air entering the top of the system which when combined with carefully sized pipework causes the system horizontal and vertical to run full.
The hydromax drain outlet is designed so that as soon as the rainwater reaches the hallow deth to the underside of the inducer plate the unique inducer prevents air ingress into the pipework as a first step towards making the system run.
