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CBB 1033 Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics Tutorial 4

This document contains 6 problems related to fluid mechanics: 1) Determine if flow of air through lungs is laminar or turbulent using calculations. 2) Calculate the friction factor for water flow in a 200mm diameter cast iron pipe. 3) Calculate pressure drop and contributions of losses vs. kinetic energy for water flow through a contraction. 4) Calculate pressure rise for water flow through a sudden enlargement and compare to frictionless value. 5) Determine air speed and flow rate using pressures for flow through a sudden duct expansion. 6) Calculate volume flow rate using given pressure drop for water flow through a contraction.

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CBB 1033 Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics Tutorial 4

This document contains 6 problems related to fluid mechanics: 1) Determine if flow of air through lungs is laminar or turbulent using calculations. 2) Calculate the friction factor for water flow in a 200mm diameter cast iron pipe. 3) Calculate pressure drop and contributions of losses vs. kinetic energy for water flow through a contraction. 4) Calculate pressure rise for water flow through a sudden enlargement and compare to frictionless value. 5) Determine air speed and flow rate using pressures for flow through a sudden duct expansion. 6) Calculate volume flow rate using given pressure drop for water flow through a contraction.

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CBB 1033 Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics

Tutorial 4

1. Air flows through a 0.08-mm-diamter passageway in a person’s lungs at a rate of 10-


9 m3/s. Is the flow laminar or turbulent? Support your answer with appropriate
calculations.

2. Water flows in a cast-iron pipe of 200-mm diameter at a rate of 0.10 m 3/s. Determine
the friction factor of this flow.

3. Water flows at a rate of 0.040 m 3/s in a 0.12-m-diameter pipe that contains a sudden
contraction to a 0.06-m-diameter pipe. Determine the pressure drop across the
contraction section. How much of this pressure difference is due to losses and how
much is due to kinetic energy changes?

4. Water flow through sudden enlargement from 25 mm to 50 mm diameter. Volumetric


flow rate is 1.25 L/min. Determine the pressure rise across enlargement and compare
it with value for frictionless flow.

5. Air at standard conditions flows through a sudden expansion in a circular duct. The
upstream and downstream duct diameters are 75 mm and 225 mm, respectively. The
pressure downstream is 5 mm of water higher than that upstream. Determine the
average speed of the air approaching the expansion and the volume flow rate.

6. Water flows through a 2-in. diameter tube that suddenly contracts to 1 in. diameter.
The pressure drop across the contraction is 0.5 psi. Determine the volume flow rate.

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