EN7917 Fluid Mechanics (2019A)

Project Title: Chilled Water Supply Mahmood AlAraibi (201700841)

Summary (font size 44) Introduction Pressure Drop Calculations

Several steps were taken to achieve our goals: The purpose of this project is to design a piping system for a
Material choice and pipe sizing, valves. chilled water supply for A/C units, provided data and proposed
Pressure drop calculations. schematic by GPIC.
Venturi design as a flow measurement device(Ratio of 0.8).
Pump choice and calculations.
Venturi Design

Alternative Flow Measuring Devices

1. Turbine flow meter: As fluid flows through it, a turbine
Pump Arrangement Pump curves blade is rotated about an axis along the centerline of the
turbine housing, the angular velocity is directly
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Pressure Drop

proportional to fluid velocity.

2. Differential pressure flowmeter: A disk or orifice is
20 placed in the pipe, opening of the orifice is set lower than
Sequence arrangement to achieve higher head pressure inside diameter
Where parallel arrangement are utilized for achieving
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high flow rate. 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 Selection of check valves
Flowrate

Pump Selection Pump types and attributes

4X check valves – to direct flow in one path.
7X gate valves – for maintenance.
Centrifugal and positive discharge pumps, where the
The suitable pump type is W+30/80 at 2900 RPM 50Hz,
centrifugal pump was chosen, due to positive discharge
impeller diameter 150mm, efficiency of 72%, 7.5kW motor.
being for special applications.

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