Steam leak calculation
Steam leak calculation
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Hi,
I'm fighting here with steam leak calculations.
I found 3 or 4 different methods and the results are far from consistent.
Is there any standard that guides to the correct formula, or does anyone know the correct formula to calculate it?
Thanks!
I'm fighting here with steam leak calculations.
I found 3 or 4 different methods and the results are far from consistent.
Is there any standard that guides to the correct formula, or does anyone know the correct formula to calculate it?
Thanks!





RE: Steam leak calculation
The steam leakage would be acoustically choked flow,the discharge coeficient is about 0.82 for cracks whose diameter is laarger than the pipe thickness. But realistically, a crack usually has a clearance or effective diameter much smaller than the pipe thickness, so one should review teh literature on this subject; as I recall, the discharge coeficient for choked flow is strongly related to the ratio of the crack diameter to the wall thickness.
RE: Steam leak calculation
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RE: Steam leak calculation
Thank you very much for your tip!!
Perfect. I will compara it with the methods that i have here, but i think that this one is very straight and very well explained.
Thanks once more!!