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Restriction Orifice calculation

Restriction Orifice calculation

Restriction Orifice calculation

(OP)
Can any body help me in calculating the orifice specification for 3 inch carbon steel ine diametr to allow only 30 cubic meter to pass thru.

Service is water
ID is 3"
material of the orifice plate is Stainless steel
Pressure is 5 bar

Thanks.

RE: Restriction Orifice calculation

You can use formulas in Crane or any other good hydraulics textbook.
We have an in-house program which gives for 30 m3/h water at 15 C and for 5 bar pressure loss an orifice hole size of 23 mm.

Regards,

Joerd

RE: Restriction Orifice calculation

Utlaan
Joerd's recommendation of the Crane "Flow of Fluids" Publication (No.410) is sound. You can get it from http://www.cranevalve.com/tech.htm
I caution that you need to clear up your pressure statement.  I guess that the 5 bar (gauge pressure? barg ?) is upstream pressure but the orifice will be sized on the pressure loss across the orifice so, unless you are discharging directly to the atmosphere, you will need to calculate the down-stream pressure losses which create a back pressure on the orifice.  The Crane book helps there also.

RE: Restriction Orifice calculation

I use my in-house program with the following input:
ID pipe: 78.1 mm ( 3" STD)
Full scale : 36 M3/hr
Normal : 30 m3/hr
Temp.: 15 oC
Normal Pressure: 5 Kg/cm2g
density : 998 kg/m3
viscocity: 1 cp

and gives the result:
Max Reynold: 162700
Norm. Rey. :135600
Dia meter Ratio : 0.5720
Flow Coef: 0.6435
Exp. fac : 1
orifice Diameter: 44.7 mm
Max Press. Loss : 3260.5 mmH2O
flow range : 34.3 - 100%

Reference: JIS Z8762-1969 Orifice Sizing.
Unfortunetly I don't have JIS standard for checking.

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