What it IOP and TP?

[joeread]

What is the difference between Intencity of pressure and Total Pressure?

 

[45yearsagasman]

In relation to what? It's not a phrase I've heard,certainly on gas or water anyway.

 

[joeread]

its to do with water cisterns how much pressure is forced at the bottom of the cistern,

 

[45yearsagasman]

I just googled the phrase and it came back as "a meaningless term". Is it in relation to a fault?

 

[Nige F]

IOP = institute of plumbing .....TP = travis perkins (now own PTS)

 

[keithsb]

Intensity of pressure = The pressure per unit area

e.g. Pounds per Square Inch or water pressure (bar)

Total Pressure = The overall pressure exerted over a defined area. More to do with hydraulics than plumbing.

Sort of thing that pump people might need to know.

Keith

 

[rojaca]

think you'd be best diggin out treloar's plumbing book.
The main jist of which is that it is the head developed by gravity and not the volume of water in a cistern that determines the pressure at a particular point.
About only point I have ever really found useful to remember is 10m head of water will create approximately 1bar of pressure

 

[joeread]

Intensity of pressure = The pressure per unit area

e.g. Pounds per Square Inch or water pressure (bar)

Total Pressure = The overall pressure exerted over a defined area. More to do with hydraulics than plumbing.

Sort of thing that pump people might need to know.

Keith

So in terms of Total Pressure the area that you would calculate would be the pipes and there size? or the area of the floor of the house, flat that your doing up?