a CChaptor 2/ FLOW OF INCOMPRESSIBLE NEWTONIAN FLUIDS IN PIPES. rather Jong small-diameter pipes the fret nates, while kinetic energy and entrance effe short large-diameter ignored and can act Figures 2.4 and 2.5 allow us to solve flow problems without trial and error ‘whenever frictional losses, flow rate, or pipe length are the unknowns. Unfor- tunately, when the pipe diameter is unknown, one needs to resort to triahand- ‘procedures, as we have seen in this problem. Laminar fow is the exception, for then 1o trial and error is needed. PROBLEMS ON INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW IN PIPES, jpurnp-motor is 50% efficient. 6 Hien 20° fos haan 9 ohn fw nk oh 100 & pipe. The level of the pond is Find the flow rate of water in% [Chapter 2 / FLOW OF INCOMPRESSIBLE NEWTONIAN FLUIDS IN PIPES 28, Water at 20°C flows from the base of a large storage tank through a smooth horizontal pipe (100-mm-i.d, 1 km in length) at a velocity of 1 m/s, That is ‘much pipe must I saw off to get 2.5 times the velocity 29. The Sweat-hote: We are testing a new type of soaker garden hose. Ithas porous walls Uhrough which water seeps. Calculate the seepage rate of this hose i liters. for and the pumping « 2¢/KW hr for electri presture atthe faucet feeding the hose is 100 kPa sbove atmospheric. ‘The incredible osmotic pump. Unbelievable thoug!FLOW OF INCOMPRESSIBLE NEWTONIAN FLUIDS IN PIPES: flows from the base of a large storage tank through a smooth off to get 2.5 times the v yy and entrance effects. 7 pores/em? based on the outside agand 10 min diameter. The water PROBLEMS 7 Geothermal Energy. Northwest Natural Gas Co, is doing exploratory work for a possible $50,000,000 geothermal development to supply Portland, Oregon with hot water from Mt, Hood, Wells would be drilled on the slopes of Mt. Hood, 760 m efficiency for the pump-motor and 2¢/KW hr for electricity; ‘pump is needed, find the water pressure inthe pipeline at Portland. ‘We would like the water pressure at Portland to be 700 KPa, and this can be obtained without pumps by choosing the proper pipe size. What size would do the job? (See Corals Gazete-Times (September 28, 1977] 2.15. Water at 10°C is to flow out of a large tank through a 30-gauge 8-in, commercial steel (0.205 m id) piping system with valve open, as shown below. ‘What length of pipe could be wed wile ail mantining a flow rate of 02 yetflow rate of 20° Cw in the surroundings? pressure is 2 bar inthe mother tube and 2.20, More on drip irrigation. Referring tothe above problem, what diameter and length Aripper should we use if we want flow rate of livhr to each pant, andi dripper length isto be somewhere between 0.5 and 1.5 m? ‘Datei: The temperature is 20°C; mother tube pressure = 200 kPa; pressure = 100 kPa; drippers are manufactured in three diameters: 0.5 mm, tube, each drop hes a mass of “These drops are ejected from the tube by passing pulses of electricity, a 143, through a heater located very close to the end of the t ‘vaporizes a bit of ink which muses the pressure high enous the tube. The vapor then condenses, and the process is re generate these 4000 dropsis jin these vapor bubbles, and ignore possible surface sion effects, Aocounting for surface tension effects would only change the swe about 13%, jected in about 3s, la of bubble Peledrity Y_/ "fe ord calapses som Praite dogs, cute squircel-tike in underground burrows that some of theirexitsare tg While others are in carefully built up mounds of earth. Is there a purpos ‘Some speculate that these mounds which dot the colony act as look-out poPROBLEMS 38 Gena iper, (0 Fin th aston nd ves fa flow rough te tunel ming ies i) Meth our epeepanine eae ch ose oes 22. Oilpipeline. Aste! pipe 0.S-nvi.d isto carry 18000 may of il from ancil feldtoa refinery located 1000 km away. The difference in elevation of the two ends ofthe line ulate the power required to overcome friction in the pi the temperature involved the oll has a vice of 0.08 kgf and & density of 870 kg/m 24, Williams Brothers —CMPS Engineers are presently designing a pipeline to transport 40 mfr of cor to Phosphate Hill, bth in Queensland, Aus line wil be const by the concentrated ac ) ermine the highest peste expected inthe pipeline. Where should mals, Pie doga, cute suinel-ike creatres this be? fons in underground burows connected by (&) Determine the pressure atthe pipeline discharge; note that the pressure tunnels sthatsome oftheir art groundlevel should not go below stnogphere anywhere inthe line, it up mounds of earth Is there m purpose (© Cael ng power requirement fr this pipeline fora 33% pump- ce = low vals to weoont fr solo ofthe pu, low ency ‘fo as follows: i