Fluid Mechanics
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Author: Frank M. White
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 1.74P
Oil, with a vapor pressure of 20 kPa, is delivered through a pipeline by equally spaced pumps, each of which increases the oil pressure by 1.3 MPa, Friction losses in the pipe are 150 Pa per meter of pipe. What is the maximum possible pump spacing to avoid cavitation of the oil?
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A tanker carrying tolueneis unloaded to an onshore storage tank using the ship’s pumps. The pipeline is 225-mm inside diameter and 900-m long (200-m long suction line, 700-m long discharged line). Miscellaneous losses due to fittings, valves, etc., amount to 100 equivalent pipe diameters at the suction side, and 500 equivalent pipe diameters at the discharged side. The maximum liquid level in the destination storage tank is 30 m above the lowest liquid level in the ship’s tanks. The ship’s tanks are nitrogen blanketed and maintained at an absolute pressure of 1.05 bar (1 bar = 10^5 Pa). The storage tank has a floating roof, which exerts an absolute pressure of 1.1 bar on the liquid. The ship must unload 1000 metric tons within 5 hours. Taking pump efficiency as 70%, (ρ = 874 kg/m3, μ = 0.62 cP, Pvapor = 0.037 atm absolute). Determine:
D. Discharge head (m) and pressure (Pa)
E. Actual pump power (kW)
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