Grease Trap Diagram

Types of grease traps.

Grease trap diagram. The size of a grease trap is needless to say the most important thing for an establishment to consider. Installations requiring long runs of pipe exceeding 25 feet 8m to reach the. Naturally hydro mechanical receptors have a 100gpm handling.

Water and wastewater equipment. Grease trap or interceptor sizing. The former two are mainly used for large installations like restaurants or hotels while the passive hydromechanical grease trap is used in homes.

Once you ve removed the lid take note of where each part of the grease trap is located. Using our installation diagrams you will be able to find the rockford separator grease trap that best suits your installation requirements. Gravity automatic and passive hydromechanical manual.

Microsoft word document1 author. Creating a grease trap diagram can help you keep track of the trap s interior. Without a grease trap diagram for reference it will be more difficult to properly re install all the parts after cleaning.

It depends on which model plumbing code applies to the installation. The grease interceptor should be installed as close as possible to the fixture s being served as every foot of piping between the grease source and the interceptor is unprotected and a potential source for grease build up. Flc series approved sinks optional p trap vent air intake cleanout flow orifice plate inlet vent outlet vent flow control zurn licht commercial series 2700 interceptor.

Create a grease trap diagram. This is tied to the rating that hydro mechanical interceptors have in terms of the allowable maximum drainage in gallons per minute gpm. The international plumbing code ipc 1002 1 exception 3 allows a grease interceptor to serve as a fixture trap where it is intended by the manufacturer to serve as a trap for a single fixture or a combination sink of not more than three compartments so long as the vertical distance from the outlet of the fixture to the.