Working for an engineering consultancy firm, your knowledge of fluid dynamics is required to design a new safety feature for a high-pressure air line in a factory. The air line takes the form of a cylindrical pipe of diameter 150 mm, which is designed to operate between 0.45 MPa and 0.76 MPa. At the end of the pipe a bursting disk is placed so that, if the pressure exceeds the maximum operating pressure, the air is vented to atmosphere rather than over-pressuring the chemical reaction vessel (Figures 4a and 4b). In this question, you should treat the flow as quasione-dimensional and inviscid. The air in the surrounding atmosphere is at 101 kPa and 298 K. Due to an over-pressurisation of the air line, the disk bursts at time t = 0. At what pressure in the air line will this occur?
Working for an engineering consultancy firm, your knowledge of fluid dynamics is required to design a new safety feature for a high-pressure air line in a factory. The air line takes the form of a cylindrical pipe of diameter 150 mm, which is designed to operate between 0.45 MPa and 0.76 MPa. At the end of the pipe a bursting disk is placed so that, if the pressure exceeds the maximum operating pressure, the air is vented to atmosphere rather than over-pressuring the chemical reaction vessel (Figures 4a and 4b). In this question, you should treat the flow as quasione-dimensional and inviscid. The air in the surrounding atmosphere is at 101 kPa and 298 K.
Due to an over-pressurisation of the air line, the disk bursts at time t = 0. At what pressure in the air line will this occur?
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