Influência da distância das peças hidráulicas em um banheiro no funcionamento do chuveiro

Abstract

The bathroom, essential room in all buildings, is neglected many times and ends up with a reduced area, with minimal lengths that affects the use and efficiency of the devices. In that context, the present work simulates and studies a bathroom to find out how the distances between the devices, more specifically between shower and discharge valve, affects the efficiency of the shower and at what distance that influence starts to be null. Placing the discharge valve too close to the shower decrease the flow rate of the shower and interrupts the contact between the resistors and the head of the device, causing, besides a low flow rate on the shower, a low temperature of the water for a moment, what can burn the shower resistance and, with that, generate costs and stress that could be avoided with a good hydraulic project. By the graphics that shows the results of the experiments its shown that the dependency between the flow rate and the distance between the devices is linear and ends up with a limit where the flow rate starts to be constant, that ideal distance is 184,2cm. The results showed on this work can be used as base to other studies and to designers who wants to make a bathroom with a good efficiency on the devices, even with a short length.