Injection Tee (Plumbing question)

Does anyone know where I can get an Injection Tee from? My system has Gravity Hot water and pumped CH (and I cannot stop it making hot water as its from a range cooker) It goes all wonky when the CH is on and stops the gravity flow. Could I make one from a 28mm = Tee and a 22mm pipe reducer or are they more specialised??

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  • BobProperty
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    Sounds like you need a re-arrangement of the plumbing pipework. What is an "Injection Tee" by the way? If you are trying to add just a method of having only the CH on and no hot water, then be aware that the range may require the hot water loop to be there all the time. This isn't my specialist subject but I do think a reworking of the pipework may be needed to achieve what you are looking for.
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    The injector tee is a special fitting, it is usualy made of stainless steel and will have pre-drilled holes which divert the water into the heatexchanger.
    You will need the make/model to order 1.
    There could be 1 already fiited as they are sometimes fitted straight into the boiler, but it could also be piped up wrong.
    As it is best to cross pipe.


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    http://www.rangecookers.co.uk/home.html
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    Plumb1, I think we need more info from MrP as I was taking the phase "range cooker" to mean any sort of range cooker e.g. Rayburn. We don't know if it is solid fuel for instance. He could live in the wilds of the Peak District :confused:
    I was thinking he could have an old Rayburn type set up with hot water and a handful of rads that someone had "improved" at some point in the past by adding the pump.
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  • Ok Folks - Yes its a gas fired Rayburn, not too old either. The set up is that it has one heat exchanger (Single flow and return) and two burners. One burner purely for CH, this is controllable electically via a stat, timer etc it also features pump overrun. The second burner is for "cooking" and is designed to leak up to 2.5Kw to the heat exchanger. This side of it has to work as a gravity feed to the (indirect) cylinder with if necessary a further heat soak across it as well. The central heating side can be either S plan or Y plan, but if S plan has to have a bypass fitted.

    The thought behind an "Injector tee" is that as the return from the cylinder and the return from the CH tee together on the return to H/E the pumped return stops the gravity flow, this is cured (for want of a better word) by reducing the diameter of the pumped return inside the tee and thus creating a venturi that sucks the gravity flow along with it. Imagine a 28m tube reduced to say 22mm with a pipe reducer and then stuck into the Tee so on looking into the Tee of the Tee Fitting you can see the end of the 22mm reducer, this acts as a jet that sucks the gravity return in around it (Still with me so far) and thus assists the flow to the DHW.

    HTH LOL
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  • Mike4
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    I don't know any company still making injector tees, but I'd imagine one could be made quite easily....

    I'd use a 28mm endfeed tee and a 28mm x 15mm fitting reducer. Cut the 28mm end of the fitting reducer down to about 5mm in length then insert it into the 28mm tee, with the 15mm end pointing into the tee as the injector nozzle. Install it and see if it works!

    Hope that helps.

    Cheers! M4
  • Just had another thought! I wonder if a 22 - 28 - 28 swept tee with the pumped side into the 22mm end would do the job?
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  • plumb1_2
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  • Mike4
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    Nice drawing. What did you use for it?

    However, I think this design would be dangerous and contravene the range cooker installation instructions. The original poster's system is probably designed with uncontrolled gravity primaries to the hot water cylinder so there is a heat sink to prevent the range cooker boiling it's water.

    Cheers! Mike4
  • plumb1_2
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    Mike4 wrote:

    However, I think this design would be dangerous and contravene the range cooker installation instructions.

    This is Range detailed layout, as per their installation instructions, how can it be dangerous, it clearly shows a open vent.
  • Mike4
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    plumb1 wrote:
    This is Range detailed layout, as per their installation instructions, how can it be dangerous, it clearly shows a open vent.


    To quote the original poster, "I cannot stop it making hot water as its from a range cooker".

    It is impossible to prevent a solid fuel appliance producing heat when it is alight, hence the need for a heat sink (or heat leak), and the pipework layout you posted does not provide one. An open vent by itself is not good enough.

    Without any sort of heat leak installed, the range will quickly boil its water when neither CH nor HW is calling for heat. Steam discharging continuously from the open vent is most definitely not a Good Idea, and if the cold fill and open vent pipes should ever freeze, the range will turn into a bomb.

    Hope that helps... ;-)

    Cheers!
    M4
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