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Hydraulics Tutorial Sheet 10 - Pipe Networks: 6 2 1 Entry Expansion 1 2 2 Exit 3 1

This document provides examples of calculating flow rates through pipe networks using hydraulic equations. It includes determining flow rates through two pipes in series given pipe dimensions and head loss data. It also includes designing a pipeline to supply a specified flow rate given pipe roughness and total supply head, and calculating flows at a junction between three reservoirs connected by pipes of different diameters and lengths.

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Hydraulics Tutorial Sheet 10 - Pipe Networks: 6 2 1 Entry Expansion 1 2 2 Exit 3 1

This document provides examples of calculating flow rates through pipe networks using hydraulic equations. It includes determining flow rates through two pipes in series given pipe dimensions and head loss data. It also includes designing a pipeline to supply a specified flow rate given pipe roughness and total supply head, and calculating flows at a junction between three reservoirs connected by pipes of different diameters and lengths.

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Hydraulics

Tutorial Sheet 10 – Pipe networks

1. Aviation fuel flows from tank A to tank B through two pipes connected in series. Determine the
discharge, given the data:
Pipe 1 Pipe 2
Length L 300 m 240 m
Diameter D 600 mm 1m
Roughness 2 mm 0.3 mm
Total head loss ∆H 6m
Kinematic viscosity ν 3 × 10−6 m2 s−1
Kentry 0.5
∆Hexpansion (U1 − U2 )2 /2g
Kexit = α 1.3
Use the Haaland approximation for the friction coefficient λ. (Ans: 0.79 m3 s−1 ).
2. A new reservoir supplies water to a service reservoir 10 km away with a total supply head of 100 m.
It is required to supply 200 L s−1 , at 20 ◦ C (ν = 10−6 m2 s−1 ). Initially allow for an entry loss of
K = 0.5 and an exit loss of α = 1.3. Use the Haaland approximation for λ.
a. Justify your decision to ignore entry and exit losses.
b. Design the pipeline, namely calculate the diameter necessary, if it is to be made of galvanised
iron with a roughness of d = 0.03 mm, and round up to the nearest multiple of 25 mm.
c. What is the unregulated discharge in the pipeline?
d. Calculate the head loss to be provided by a valve to regulate the flow to 200 L s−1 .
(Ans: 350 mm, 217 L s−1 , 15 m).
3. Three reservoirs are connected by pipelines which meet at a junction. The data for the reservoirs
and corresponding pipelines are
Reservoir/pipeline 1 2 3
Surface elevation H 30 m 18 m 9m
Pipe diameter D 1m 0.45 m 0.6 m
Area = πD2 /4 0.785 m2 0.159 m2 0.283 m2
Relative roughness d/D 0.0002 0.002 0.001
Pipeline length L 3000 m 600 m 1000 m
Calculate the discharge in each of the three pipes, assuming a viscosity of ν = 10−6 m2 s−1 , and
neglecting all local losses.
Use formulae given in the lecture notes which automatically allow for changes in flow direction:
s
2g |Hi − HJ |
QiJ = A sign (Hi − HJ ) ,
λL/D

where QiJ is the flow from reservoir i to junction J.


(Ans: Pipeline 1: 1.20 m3 s−1 from the reservoir to the junction, Pipeline 2: 0.33 m3 s−1 from
junction to the reservoir, and Pipeline 3: 0.873 m3 s−1 from junction to reservoir).
4. Repeat Question 3 using Excel Solver.Was it easier?

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