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Pneumatic Piping

09/24/2010 6:25 AM

how to find the pipe size for compressed air for a given line velocity, and flow rate at a particular pressure>???????

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09/24/2010 7:14 AM

You should be able to work it out from the information in this link. You will need to know what pressure drop you can tolerate along the length of the line.

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09/24/2010 8:08 AM

Not required - OP has given the line velocity and flow rate - these tw with simple mathematics provides the area of cross-section and hence the size.

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09/24/2010 6:46 PM

Not required in fantasy-land, where the air moves sedately along a couple of metres of line, is not used for anything and is at 0 barg. Get real. If it were that simple, the OP needn't have asked.

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09/25/2010 7:41 AM

pipe size for compressed air for a given line velocity, and flow rate at a particular pressure.

Unfortunately the link that you have given would not take the line velocity into consideration.

It is the dp calculator for a given flow, length and pressure (of compressible fluid)

Of course in real world the averaging of the flow does not exist nor does laminar flow (with profile of paraboloid of revolution)

Whether one wants or not there are bound to be eddies/turbulence at the boundaries.

And just for information the link given provides an equation, please check the derivation of it how the Q and D are related into that. Also it may be noted that in the case of compressible fluids (air) the only effect that pressure has is in the ρ and from there into the viscosity.

To end it what the OP asked?

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09/24/2010 3:25 PM

The engineering toolbox should really clean up their website.. it is so cluttered with ads all over the place, its almost impossible to navigate sometimes..

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09/24/2010 6:38 PM

Don't know what browser you're using, but of late I've been using Mozilla Firefox, with Adblock Plus as an add-on.

Here's an example of what I see:

Doesn't look too bad to me.

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09/24/2010 8:09 PM

oh.. i gotta check out this adblock plus you are referring too.. i use firefox too.. i tend to avoid some websites with too many ads, and eng. tool bx is one of them

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09/25/2010 9:06 AM

pipe diameter squared x velocity x .0028 = m3/hr air flow

Say 1 inch /25 mm pipe & velocity say 5 metres/s = 625 x 5 x .0028 = 8.75 m3/hr

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