1. At the bottom of a water reservoir the absolute pressure is 180 ft. The reservoir...
Problem 3 A pipeline delivers water from Reservoir 1 to Reservoir 2 as shown in the following figure. The water levels at Reservoirs 1 and 2 are 50 ft and 20 ft, respectively. A globe valve is installed in the pipeline with a minor head loss coefficient k 10. The pipe from Reservoir 1 to the globe valve is 1000 ft long and 6 inches in diameter. The pipe from the globe valve to Reservoir 2 is also 1000 ft...
A transmission pipeline that conveys water from an upstream reservoir to a downstream reservoir is indicated below. The transmission main has a valve along its length that controls the discharge in the system. The discharge through the valve is computed with the valve equation below. The pipeline has a length of 4,500 m, a Hazen-Williams 'C' factor of 110, and an inner diameter of 450 mm. The upstream reservoir has a water level of 105 m. The valve discharge constant...
11. Water is pumped from a reservoir at a lower elevation to an elevated reservoir by using a suitable pump. The lower reservoir water level have an atmospheric pressure head of I and is at an elevation of 20 ft. while the intake/suction side of the pump is at an elevation of 25 ft. The water is pumped at a rate of 425 gpm in a 6" diameter pipe, friction factor () is 0.017 and the length of pipe is...
1. At the bottom of the pool the water pressure is greater than the pressure at the top of the pool (True,False) 2. The atmospheric pressure at the sea level is greater than the atmospheric pressure at the mountain top (True,False) 3. A cake of soap placed in a bathtub of water sinks. The buoyant force on the soap is less than the weight of the soap (True,False)
A reservoir A connected to B reservoir through a pipe that is 5 km long and 230 mm in diameter. The difference in water level of the two reservoirs is 70 m. At a distance of 2 km from the feeder reservoir, water is drawn at the rate of 40 litres/s . (a) Taking the friction factor as 0.008 and neglecting all other losses, determine the rate at which water enters the B reservoir. (b) Sketch the hydraulic grade line...
In a hydroelectric power station, the turbine is driven by water flowing from a reservoir at the rate of 551 m s. The water is pumped through a pipe 2.06 km long of 2.53 m intemal diameter with a friction factor of 0.004. The water is assumed to have a kinematic viscosity of 13x10 mʻls. The elevation of the upper reservoir above sea level is 400 m and that of the lower reservoir is 40 m. Determine the following Mean...
2. (20 points) The pump shown in the figure pumps 1.5ft/s of water from the reservoir with H-50ft. The head loss associated with this flow is 10ft. Specific weight of water y equals 62.41b/ft';g 32.2ft/s2. The pipe diameter is constant and equals D' C2 iches) . Compute the power in horsepower necessary to run the pump. . Sketch the energy and the hydraulic grade line. free jet
Q5. A pump is located 2 m below the water surface in a reservoir as shown. The piping between the pump and the reservoir consists of 3 m of 150-mm-diameter ductile iron pipe of 0.2 friction Coefficient. The valves and bends between the source reservoir and the pump are estimated to have a total local loss coefficient of k=50 (hikV2/2g). The water in the reservoir has a temperature of 25°C and the atmospheric pressure is 101.3 kPa. What is the...
Problem 1: In the reservoir-pipe system below, water is supplied from reservoir A to reservoir B with a flowrate of 50 L/S. In the system, a pump with an efficiency value of n=0.70 is used. Length of the pipeline is L=5000m, pipe diameter is D=200 mm and the elevation difference between reservoirs is 40 m. According to this, a) Determine the required pump head (Hp). b) Find the required nominal pump power. c) Draw the relative energy grade line of...
Two reservoirs, the water levels in which are at elevations 180 m and 150 m respectively, are connected by a pipe 3000 m long, 600 mm diameter and friction factor 0.025. The elevation of the ground along the line of the pipeline is given in the table below. Distance (m) o Elevation (m) 17!5 150 165 300 190 1800 140 3000 147 Assuming a rounded inlet and an abrupt outlet calculate the quantity of flow. Find the maximum depth of...