HEADLOSS ON PIPES

1. A new cast iron pipe must carry 1.2 m³/s at a head loss of 5 m. per km. length of pipe.
Compute the diam. of the pipe using:

a. Hazen Williams Formula with C = 120.

b. Mannings Formula with n = 0.012.
c. Darcy Weishback Formula with f = 0.021

2. A 0.60 m. diameter pipeline 30 m. long carries 0.4 m³/s of water. Compute the head loss using
the following formula:

a. Darcy Weishback with f = 0.014 .

b. Mannings Formula with n = 0.012.
c. Hazen Williams with C = 120.

3. An extremely simplified water supply system is shown in the figure. Pressure on the
discharged sides of pump is 550 kPa and the residual pressure at the load center B is 200 kPa.

a. Compute the head loss from the pump to B iif water is neither flowing to nor from the
elevated storage tank.
 b. What is the calculated discharge at point B if water is neither flowing to nor from the
elevated storage tank.
c. Compute the velocity of flow towards B.

4. Lift pumps provide flow at a discharge pressure of 400 kPa, residual pressure at point B is 140
kPa and elevated storage and equivalent pipelines are given in the figure. Assume that the ground
levels at points A, B and C are at the same elevation. C = 100 . Use 9.79kN /m³ as unit weight of
water.

a. Compute the quantity of flow that the pump is supplying to load center point B.
b. Compute the discharge supplied by the tank to B.
c. Compute the quantity of flow available at the load center point B.

5. The pump in flow at A is 100 liters/sec. at a discharge pressure of 550 kPa and the outflow at
B is 40 liters/sec. Assume Hazens' Coefficient C=100 for all pipes.
a. Determine the elevation of the energy gradient.
b. Determine the discharge supply from the tank towards C.
c. Determine the outflow at point C in liters/sec.
6. Pipelines 1, 2 and 3 are connected with parallel to each other with pipeline 1 having diam. of
450 mm, 600 m. long, pipeline 2, 400 mmø, 800 m. long and pipeline 3, 500 mmø, 700 m. long.
The 3 pipes carries a combined discharge of 0.86 m³/s. Assuming f = 0.02 for all pipes. Compute
the following:
a. Discharge of pipeline 1.
b. Discharge of pipeline 2.
c. Discharge of pipeline 3.
7. A 800 mmø main carrying 2.4 m³/s branches into two pipelines between points A and B, one
1200 m. long with a diameter of 450 mm and one 1350 m. long with a diameter of 600 mm Both
pipes come together at point B and continues as a single 800 mmø pipe. Assuming values of f
equal to 0.022, 0.033 and 0.024 respectively for the 900 mm, n, 600 mm and 450 mm diameter
pipes.
 a. Determine the rate of flow of the 450 mm pipe.
b. Determine the rate of flow of the 600 mm pipe.
c. Determine the pressure head at B if the pressure head at A is 200 m.

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