PRELIM EXAM

1. Valve - Any device for controlling or stopping the flow of liquid or gas by a
movable part that opens, partially obstructs, or shuts a passage, pipe, inlet, or
outlet.

2. Water Hammer - A knocking in the pipes caused when faucets in the lower
levels are shut off abruptly or automatically.

3. Water closet - A plumbing fixture used to receive human excremental and to

discharge it through a waste pipe, using water as a conveying medium.

4. Urinal - A flushable fixture used by men for urinating.

5. Plumbing - The art and technique of installing pipes, fixtures, and other
apparatuses in buildings for bringing in the supply of liquids, substances and/or
ingredients and removing them.

6. Lavatory - A fixture designed for the washing of hands and face.

7. Filtration - Water purification wherein water is passed through layers of sand

and gravel in concrete basins in order to remove the finer suspended particles.

8. 1,000 kilogram per cubic meter - The weight of water in liquid form, expressed
in kilogram per cubic meter.

9. Water closet - A fixture consisting of ceramic bowl with a detachable, hinged

seat and lid and a device for flushing with water, used for defecation and
urination.

10. Hydrogen and Oxygen - The chemical elements of water.

11. Faucet - A device for controlling the flow of a liquid from a pipe by opening or
closing an orifice.

12. Siphon Vortex - Water closet which develops its flushing action through the
water entering through diagonal holes around the rim which creates a swirling
action which forms a vortex in the center.
 13. Sedimentation - Water purification wherein water is passed through basins so
sediments can settle through a period of time.
14. Polypropylene Random Copolymer - Most reliable pipe in plumbing and water
supply plants, due to their chemical features and fusion welding, which ensures
the plumbing to have a perfect seal tight system.

15. Well - A hole drilled or bored into the earth to obtain water, petroleum, or natural gas.

16. Chlorination - Water purification wherein water is injected with hypo-chlorite or chlorine
gas to kill the harmful bacteria.

17. Water treatment - The process of making water more potable or useful by purifying,
clarifying, or softening.

18. Gate Valve - A shutoff valve closed by lowering a wedge-shaped gate across the
passage.

19. Coagulation - Water purification wherein water is added with coagulants to cause the
larger suspended particles form a gelatinous mass which precipitates readily.

20. Cistern - A reservoir or tank for storing and holding water.

Quiz 3.1 Water Supply

1. Faucet - A valve located at the end of a water pipe through of which water can be drawn from
or held within the pipe.
2. Pump - Equipment used whenever the water supply at its natural pressure cannot be directly
piped to a building, tank or reservoir.

3. Backflow - The flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or substances into the
distributing pipes of a potable supply of water from any source other than from its
intended source.

4. Riser - A water supply pipe extending vertically to one full story or more to convey
water into pipe branches or plumbing fixtures.

5. Fixture unit - A unit for measuring the probable demand for water by a plumbing
fixture, or the probable discharge of liquid waste from the fixture.
MIDTERM EXAM

1. Trap seal - The maximum vertical depth of liquid that a trap will retail measured between the
crown weir and the top of the dip of the trap.

2. Globe Valve - A valve in which the flow of water is cut off by means of a circular disc fitted
against machine-smoothed faces, at right angles to the direction of flow. The disk is raised or
lowered by means of a threaded stern connected to the handle of the valve. The opening in the
valve is usually as large as the full bore of the pipe.

3. Trap - A fitting or device designed and constructed to provide, when properly vented, a liquid
seal which prevents the backflow of foul air or methane gas without materially affecting the flow
of sewage or wastewater through it.

4. Plumbing unit - A minimum standard quantity of plumbing fixtures that discharge wastes into
a plumbing installation including: one (1) water meter, one (1) water closet, one (1) lavatory, one
(1) shower head and drain or a bathtub or shower stall, one (1) kitchen sink, one (1) Iaundry tray
and three (3) floor drains, and four (4) faucets/hose bibb.

5. Fixture unit - Is an arbitrary quantity in terms of which the load producing effects or water
requirements on the plumbing system of different kinds of plumbing fixtures are expressed in
some arbitrarily chosen scale. One fixture unit is equivalent to a rate of flow at 28.3 liters per
minute (1 cu. ft./minute).

6. Individual vent - Is a pipe installed to vent a fixture trap and which collects with the vent
system above the fixture served or terminates in the open air.

7. Receptor - An approved plumbing fixture or device of such materials, shape and capacity to
adequately receive the discharge from indirect waste pipes, constructed and located to be
readily cleaned.

8. Circuit vent - A vertical vent connection on a horizontal soil or waste pipe branch at a point
downstream of the last fixture connection and turning to a horizontal line above the highest
overflow level of the highest fixture connected thereat; the terminus connected to the stack vent
in the case of loop venting or to the vent stack nearby in the case of circuit venting.

9. Vent Stack - The vertical vent pipe installed primarily for providing circulation of air to and
from any part of the soil, waste of the drainage system.

10. Riser - A water supply pipe, which extends vertically to one full story or more to convey
water into pipe branches or plumbing fixtures.

11. Fixture - A receptacle other than a trap attached to a plumbing system in which water or
wastes may be collected or retained for ultimate discharge into the plumbing system.

12. Check Valve - A valve that automatically closes to prevent the flow of liquid or gas in a
reverse direction.

13. Stack - The vertical main of a system of soil, waste or vent pipings extending through one or
more stories and extended thru the roof.
14. Horizontal Branch - Is a drain pipe extending laterally from a soil or waste stack or building
drain with or without vertical sections or branches, which receives the discharge from one or
more fixture drains and conducts it to the soil or waste stack or to the building drain.

15. Bidet - A plumbing fixtures used for washing the middle private part of the body, especially
the genitals.

16. House sewer - Is that part of a plumbing system extending from the house drain at a point
0.60 meters from the outside face of the foundation wall of a building to the junction with the
street sewer or to any point of discharge, and conveying the drainage of one building site.

17. Air break - A physical separation, which may be a low inlet into the indirect waste receptor
from the fixture, appliance or device indirectly connected.

18. Yoke vent - A pipe connecting upward from a soil or waste stack below the floor and below
horizontal connection to an adjacent vent stack at a point above the floor and higher than
highest spill level of fixtures for preventing pressure changes in the stacks.

19. Soil pipe - Any pipe, which conveys the discharge of water closet, urinal or fixtures having
similar functions, with or without the discharges from other fixtures to the building drain or
building sewer.

20. Septic Tank - A water-tight receptacle which receives the discharge of a sanitary plumbing
system or part thereof, designed and constructed to retain solids, digest organic matter through
a period of detention and to allow the liquids to discharge into the soil outside of the tank
through a system of open-jointed sub-surface pipings or a seepage pit meeting the
requirements of this Code.

Quiz 5. 1 Sanitary and Storm Drainage System

1. Surface Water – That portion of rainfall or other precipitation which runs off over
the surface of the ground.
2. Sewage – Any waste water containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension
or solution and may include liquids containing chemicals in solution.
3. Stack- the vertical main of a system of soil, waste or vent piping extending
through one or more stories and extended thru the roof.
4. Septic tank – A water – tight receptacle which receives the discharge of sanitary
plumbing system or part there of , designed and constructed to retain solids,
digest organic matter through a period of detention and allow the liquids to
discharge into the soil outside of the tank through a system of open – jointed
sub – surface piping or a s seepage pit meeting the requirements.
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