Competency Appraisal II – Hydraulics II
Problem Set Part 2
SIT. 13 Water flows through a 75 mm diameter pipe at a
velocity of 3 m/sec. Find:
51. Volume flow rate in m3/sec and lit/sec.
52. Mass flow rate in kg/sec.
53. Weight flow rate in N/sec.
SIT 14. If the velocity of flow in a 75-mm diameter fire hose is
0.5 m/s,
54. Determine the velocity in a 25 mm diameter jet issuing from
a nozzle attached at the end of the pipe.
55. Compute the power available in the jet.
SIT. 16 The pump shown draws water from reservoir A at
elevation 10 m and lifts it to reservoir B at elevation 60 m. The
loss of head from A to 1 is two times the velocity head in the
200 mm diameter pipe and the loss of head from 2 to B is ten
times the velocity head in the 150 mm diameter pipe.
Determine:
56. Rated horsepower of the pump when the discharge 0.03
m3/sec.
57. Pressure head at 1 in meters.
58. Pressure head at 2 in meters.
59. A pipeline with a pump leads to a nozzle as shown. Find the
flow rate when pump develops an 80 ft (24.4 m) head.
Assume head lost in the 6-inch (152 mm) pipe to be five times
its velocity head while the head lost in the 4-inch (102 mm)
pipe to be twelve times its velocity head. Compute the flow
rate.
60. A pipe carrying oil of specific gravity 0.877 changes in size
from 150 mm at section and 450 mm at section 2. Section 1 is
3.6 m below section 2 and the pressures are 90 kPa and 60
kPa respectively. If the discharge is 150 lit/sec, determine the
head lost and the direction of flow.
61. Oil flows from a tank through 150 m of 150 mm diameter
pipe and then discharges into air as shown in the figure. If the
head loss from point 1 to point 2 is 600 mm, determine
the pressure needed at point 1 to cause 17 lit/sec of oil to flow.
62. Water enters a motor through a 600-mm diameter pipe
under a pressure of 14 kPa. It leaves through a 900 mm
diameter exhaust pipe with a pressure of 4 kPa. A vertical
distance of 2.5 m separates the centers of the two pipes at the
sections where the pressures are measured. If 500 liters of
water pass the motor each second, compute the power
supplied to the motor.
SIT. 17 A 50 mm diameter siphon discharges oil (sp. Gr.
=
0.82) from a reservoir (elev. 20 m) into open air (elev. 15 m). The
head loss from the reservoir (point 1) to the summit (point
2, elev. 22 m) is 1.5 m and from the summit to the discharge end
is 2.4 m. Determine:
63. Flow rate in the pipe in lit/sec
64. Absolute pressure at the summit assuming atmospheric
pressure to be 101.3 kPa.
65. Calculate the discharge in liters per second through a 100-
mm diameter orifice under a head of 5.5 m of water. Assume
Cc=0.61 and Cv=0.98
66. An open cylindrical tank, 2.4 m in diameter and 6 m tall has
1 m of glycerin (Sg=1.5), 2.5 m of water, and 1.5 m of oil
(So=0.82). Determine the discharge through the 125 mm
diameter located at the bottom of the tank. Assume C=0.65
SIT. 18 A calibration test of a 12.5 mm diameter circular
sharp-edged orifice in a vertical side of a large tank showed a
discharge of 590 N of water in 81 seconds at a constant head of
4.70 m. Measurement of the jet showed that it traveled 2.35 m
horizontally while dropping 300 mm. Compute:
67. Coefficient of velocity
68. Coefficient of discharge.
69. Coefficient of contraction
SIT. 19 A 50 mm diameter circular sharp-edged orifice at the side
of tank discharges water under a head of 3 m. If the
coefficient of contraction Cc=0.63 and the head lost is 240 mm,
compute:
70. Coefficient of velocity
71. Coefficient of discharge
SIT. 20 A 1.5 m diameter vertical cylindrical tank 3 m high
contains 2.5 m of water. A 100 mm diameter circular sharp-
edged orifice is located at its bottom. Assume C=0.60
72. How long will it take to lower the water level to 1 m deep after
opening the orifice?
73. How long will it take to empty the tank?
74. Water flows through a parabolic weir that is 2 m deep and 2
m wide at the top under a constant head of 1.50 m. Assuming
C=0.65, determine the discharge through the weir.
75. Water having kinematic viscosity v=1.3x10-6 m2/s flows in a
100 mm diameter pipe at a velocity of 4.5 m/s. Determine the
Reynold’s number.
76. Fluid flows through a 20 mm diameter pipe, 150 m long at a
Reynold’s number of 1750. Calculate the discharge if the head
lost is 175 m.
77. What is the hydraulic radius of a rectangular air duct 200
mm by 350 mm?
SIT. 21 Water is flowing at the rate of 300 lit/sec from A to E as
shown in the figure.
Compute:
78. flow rate in pipe 1
79. flow rate in pipe 2
80. flow rate in pipe 3
81. flow rate in pipe 4
82. flow rate in pipe 5
83. flow rate in pipe 6
84. The turbine shown is in the 350 mm diameter line. If
the turbine efficiency is 90%, determine its output power
in kilowatts.
SIT. 22 Water flows uniformly in a rectangular concrete open
channel that is 10 m wide at a depth of 3 m. The channel slope
is 0.0025. Using n=0.013, find:
85. Velocity
86. Flow rate
87. Boundary shear stress
SIT. 23 A trapezoidal channel has a bottom width of 6 m and side
slopes of 2 horizontal to 1 vertical. If the depth is 1.2 m and
the flow is 20.40 m3/sec,
88. Compute the specific energy.
89. Compute the slope of the channel if n=0.014.
90. Compute the average shearing stress at the boundary.
91. The section of a storm drain tunnel is as shown. During the
heavy storm, the water surface is 2.5 m above the semicircular
section. If n=0.02 and the slope of the channel is 0.009,
calculate the discharge.
92. A 500 mm diameter concrete pipe is laid on a slope of 1 m
per 500 m and is required to carry water at the rate 0.04 m3/s.
Determine the normal depth of flow. Use roughness coefficient
n=0.013.
93. A flood occurs in a main channel having a trapezoidal
section (side slope on both side: 2H to 1V) and base width of
12 m. The depth of flow in this section is 3.60 m and the flood
spills out over an almost horizontal plane on one side of
the main channel. The width of the flood plain is 60 m with
an
overflow depth of 1 m. if n=0.025 for the main channel and two
times as large for the overflow section, estimate the discharge if
the be slope for both is 0.00030.
SIT. 24 A rectangular canal, 6.5 m wide and 1.4 m deep lined
with smooth stone (n=0.013) has a hydraulic slope of 0.001.
94. What savings in earth excavation could have been affected
by using the best proportion of rectangular section but adhering
to the same discharge and slope?
95. What savings in lining per meter length of canal could have
been affected by using the best proportion of rectangular
section but adhering to the same discharge and slope?
96. Determine the maximum flow through a 1.2 m diameter
concrete culvert which is laid on a slope of 0.009. Use n=0.013
97. A circular sewer pipe 1.6 m in diameter is laid on a slope of
2 m per kilometer. The pipe is made of concrete with n=0.013.
Determine the discharge when the pipe is two-thirds full.
98. What is the hydraulic radius of the channel shown in the
figure?
99. A trapezoidal canal section having side slope of 2H to 3V has
a total depth of 1.5 m. For a most efficient proportion, what is the
required bottom width in meters?
100. A turbine is rated at 600 hp when the flow of water
through it is 0.61 m3/s. Assuming an efficiency of 87%, what is
the head acting on the turbine?