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Pipe Diameter Calculation

08/24/2011 1:55 PM

How to calculate the diameter of the pipe when the flow and pressure is known

Send me the complete formula with examples

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Re: Pipe diameter calculation

08/24/2011 2:05 PM

Impossible, too many unknowns e.g length.
Why not just measure it? Or it's circumference and divide by pi.
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Re: Pipe diameter calculation

08/24/2011 2:05 PM

What an attitude!

Do it yourself

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Re: Pipe Diameter Calculation

08/24/2011 2:41 PM

Use an online calculator. They'll work for anybody.

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Re: Pipe Diameter Calculation

08/24/2011 10:11 PM

For deeper study, you can search the Web for Hazen-Williams, Dacry-Weisbach, and Colebrook equations; along with Moody chart.

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Re: Pipe Diameter Calculation

08/25/2011 10:47 AM

Oh boy.......

Time to REVISIT HYDRAULICS 101!

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Re: Pipe Diameter Calculation

08/27/2011 11:53 AM

Wrongpath....

Here is a real answer that you may actually benefit from........rather than the bable of chuckleheads.

It is the flow, density of the fluid and engineering common sense about the maximum velocity you can tolerate that will set the pipe inner diameter.

In the correct engineering of a piping system, there is usually a trade-off between the cost of pumping and the cost of the piping that will set the pipe size. Most systems are designed for 3 - 10 feet per second velocity....but there are exceptions.

Some selected systems (such as suction piping to sensitive pumps) should be designed to 2 - 4 FPS.

In certain chemical systems, ( such as sulfuric acid in carbon steel systems) a velocity of 1 - 2 FPS is best.

The maximum operating pressure is used to select piping wall thickness and the pressure rating of valves.

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Re: Pipe Diameter Calculation

08/28/2011 6:50 AM

The first thing you should do, is to determine the thickness of the pipe that you would require based on the internal pressure. You could refer to ASME 31.3 to do the necessary calculations. This is to ensure that the thickness chosen is able to overcome the pressure.

than with the flow you have, smartly choose a pipe diameter, use darcy's law (refer to the web for the formula) and determine the frictional loss due to this pipe size diameter. You can play around with the pipe diameter until you have a satisfactory frictional lose.

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Re: Pipe Diameter Calculation

08/28/2011 10:34 AM

I think some of you guys are getting a little off tangent here with suggestions trying to help this bloke.

First, your need to DEFINE the type of pipeline, whether it be a gravity sewer or water line, a highway culvert, a pressurized water pipe, a pumped water or sewage system, etc.

Then secondly, you can apply the correct engineering formulas to determine the flow characteristics, diameter of the pipe and the pipe thickness class, based on your defined system.....

IMO, I don't think the OP has a clue about what's involved....is a student, and seriously needs to go back to hydraulics basics. STUDY STUDY STUDY, AND LEARN. I have taught BS and MS level hydraulics courses, and this guy has not demonstrated to me that he has an inkling, nor has he even seriously studied the principals of hydraulics yet. He is obviously a student looking for a short-cut learning curve and answers. That's purely my opinion, as I've seen it all teaching university kids that look for every conceivable way to not study hard and look for easy answers. A lot of them failed miserably, especially the BSCE and BSME bound students.

Watch who you call a "Chuckle-head" around here bro....."He who casts the first stone....".

Now, you know the rest of the story.........

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