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Capstone: Designing a Simple Piping System
Inside this lesson
- Use continuity (M4) to convert a design flow rate into the pipe velocity
- Compute Reynolds number and roughness ratio, then read the Moody-chart friction factor f (M8)
- Compute major and minor head losses and assemble the system curve H_sys = delta z + K_sys * Q^2 (M5 + M8)
- Select a candidate pump and find the operating point by intersecting its curve with the system curve (M11)
- Size the drive motor from the hydraulic power and a pump efficiency
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