Equivalent Pipe Length eg. 30D = 30 x diameter of pipe ‘30 degree elbow 30D. 45 degree elbow 20D T straight through 16D T through side 60D. ‘Swept 90 bend 4-80 ‘Open gate valve 9D. ‘Open globe valve 275D Full bore non retum valve 6D. Butterfly valve 20D Table deli Angle valve (ally op) Buterly Gite valve (ly pen) Globe vale lly open) Foot valve wit saint Swing check valve 90? ethow perinci diameter Bo Plow mate (gpm) 100 isa 300 ‘400 1.000 1280 1500 1730 2000 25 4330 24 6748 95 62 4 160 106 72 Bao Md SLi 362 24 10 as 4h 4 83 @1 | 183 BO Wed 1307 s70 | 256 182 2a 39 1157 | sa 282 34 2025 1481 | 436 10.Loss of Air Pressure in Hose Caused by Friction Description of Product Equivalent Length in Pipe Diameters LID) |-With no obstruction in lat, bevel, or plug-type Fully open 340 Stem Perpen- dicular to Runbeat With wing or pin ee Fully open 450 Globe Valves “(No obstruction in flat, evel, or plug type seat) Y-Pattern With stem 60 degrees Fully open 175 jom run of pipe line (With stem 45 degrees from run of pipe line Fully open 148 With no obstruction in lat, bevel, or plug-type Fully open 145: Angle Valves eat “With wing or pin eng Fully open 200 Fully open 18 Wedge, Disk, Double Disk, Three-quarters open 35 or Plug Disk One-half open 160 ‘One-quart 200 Gate Valves nesters pen Fully open 17 Three-quarters open 50 Pulp Stock ip sien One-half open 260 ‘One-quarter open [1,200 onduit Pipe Lind Gate, Ball, and Fully open 3 Plug Valves Conventional Swing _|-0.5t Fully open 135, Clearway Swing —_|[-0.5t... Fully open 50 Stem Perpendicular to Check Vaves | be tiftor Stop; —RunorY-Patten 2.04 Fully open Same as Globe Angle Liftor Stop —_|[-20t Fully open ‘Same as Angle 2.5 vertical and 0.25 IncLine Ball crzontal Fully open 150 Foot Valves with Strainer With poppet lf-type Fully open 420 isk 0.3t‘With leather-hinged isk ot! Fully open. 7% Butterfly Valves (B-inch and Fully open 40 larger) “Rectangular plug port Straight-Through _[are equal to (100% of pipe area Fully open’ 18 Cocks [Rectangular pug POF || Flow gtraignt through “4 Three-Way re equal ie |-80% of pipe area (Tully!) Eloy through branch 140 pen) '90-Degree Standard Elbow 30 [-45-Degree Standard Elbow 16 [-90-Degreo Long Radius Elbow 20 '-90-Degree Street Elbow 50 Litings [-45-Degree Street Elbow 26 [-Square Comer Elbow 57 (With flow through run 20 Standard Tee With flow through 60 ranch [-Close Pattern Return Bend 50 Minimum calculated * Exact equivalent length is ressure, lange faces or welding ends|ift disk fully. equal to the length between |irop (psi) across valve to provide sufficient flow too (Use Aigo for Cement- of Seva ned Ste Pipe) Relative Roughness, E7b |.05| © Galvan iron ‘Chart for Relative Pipe Roughness Relative Roughness, ED ® al on 88 ai Looe al i = Pipe Diameter d, Inches © 010) 2 s4sG00" 2 2456 0105 2 s456 s18 2 3456010 Reynolds Number, Re