Camlock Hose Fittings versus Flow Direction
Camlock Hose Fittings versus Flow Direction
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I have some new polisher vessels I am putting in my facility. I plan to use two short runs of 4" SS flex hose for the influent and effluent vessel connections to hard piping. The vessel supplier is showing a male camlock on the influent and female camlock on the effluent. I would think it would be ideal to be the other way around (male going into female in direction of flow). I have done some internet sleuthing and came up empty, but is there any guidance on male/female camlocks based on direction of flow?





RE: Camlock Hose Fittings versus Flow Direction
Good luck,
Latexman
To a ChE, the glass is always full - 1/2 air and 1/2 water.
RE: Camlock Hose Fittings versus Flow Direction
On the other hand, having female on both hoses would prevent or reduce risk of damaging the connection interface. This would suggest also using different sizes to prevent reverse connections.
Ted
RE: Camlock Hose Fittings versus Flow Direction
RE: Camlock Hose Fittings versus Flow Direction
If you will never couple this system to anything else, putting the male parts on the two end points and making a hose with two female ends can work, and does give the benefit of making the hose ends less likely to be damaged in handling.
But the RIGHT way to make hoses is with one male and one female end, with predominant flow being from the male into the female- like biology...
That way, you don't end up with a freakshow of hoses and adapters, and any two hoses can be coupled to one another to make a longer hose.
That's how it's also done with garden hoses, and for that same reason.
Discharge points also tend to be more frequent than suction points, and hence you end up using a lot of the generally less expensive male camlock fitting and comparatively fewer female parts.
RE: Camlock Hose Fittings versus Flow Direction
Is this vessel portable and being moved around or what?
BTW having one nozzle directly above the other but both pointing down looks like a poor design to me as both hoses will clash if laid on the floor and access to both will be difficult. I would have thought you wanted them offset by 30 degrees or so.
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RE: Camlock Hose Fittings versus Flow Direction
As for the nozzles on top of each other, the water conditioning company owns the vessels, so that is their design. I can offset my piping to avoid hose clash.
RE: Camlock Hose Fittings versus Flow Direction
Either which way, from what I've been able to see there is a smooth bore when the two are connected together so I can't see any difference in flow whether the flow is from male side to female side or vice versa.
If you've got a particular section view of your particular coupling then please post it, but I guess they want two different ones so that you don't swap them over accidentally.
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