Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
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I assumed this was easy but I'm having difficulty finding the right equation. I need to calculate the flow rate in GPM of a smooth bore hose. The diameter is 3/8", length is 100 ft, inlet pressure is 250 psi and outlet is atmospheric (14.7 psi). The rest is unknown





RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
Buy yourself Crane's Technical Paper 410. It's online and cheap. It's the best, concise fluid flow manual there is, IMO.
Btw, what's the fluid and conditions?
Good luck,
Latexman
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RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
Also, there will be some loss due to bends.
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Latexman
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RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Btw, I do NOT work for Crane.
Good luck,
Latexman
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RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
Well worth the modest investment.
Do work the examples.
Do put them in a spreadsheet and beat on them some more.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia.)
RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
A potential problem with high pressure rubber hoses is that the diameter actually increases during operation. This is taken into account in evaluating fire hoses.
The nozzle at the end of the pipe should have very little influence in this case.
The Darcy-Weisbach formula is set up to calculate the pressure drop and not the flowrate. You therefore have to guess a flowrate and calculate the pressure drop and compare the result with you actual pressure drop. On the basis of this you refine your guess for the flowrate and calculate the pressure drop again. Keep doing this until the flowrate change from one guess to the next is insignificant.
You can speed up the guessing by noting that the pressure drop is roughly proportional to the square of the flowrate. For example, if your hose is smooth and you neglect any fittings a flowrate of 4 GPM will give you a pressure drop of 96 psi. Your actual pressure drop is 235.3 psi (250-14.7). Your second guess for the flowrate will therefore be 4 x (235.3/96)0.5 = 6.26 GPM. Using this flowrate gives a pressure drop of 229 psi. Your third guess is therefore 6.34 GPM and this is probably as accurate as you can be within all the other assumptions.
Katmar Software - AioFlo Pipe Hydraulics
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"An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions"
RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
We were trying to make him do the work so HE would learn! We know you already know how. 8<)
RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
There have been many times when I have simply referred the poster to Crane. But in all honesty Crane is not the most user friendly book in the world. I know I struggled with it initially. There is nowhere in the discussion section that describes how to solve a problem where the pressure drop is known and you need to calculate the flowrate. You have to read all the way to Example 4-6 near the back of the book before this problem is mentioned, and even then it is just illustrated with very little reasoning. For us who know the book we can get to Example 4-6 very quickly. A beginner has to start on page 1.
Perhaps in this instance I should only have outlined the method and not done the first few iterations. The way I took the situation is that Chairs is not looking to learn everything there is to know about pipe flow calculations. He has a once-off need for an answer and it would not be worth his while to read the whole of Crane to come to grips with the problem. He seemed to have made some effort and come unstuck so I decided to help. Like I said, it's a judgement call and we will all have different opinions of who should be helped and by how much.
Katmar Software - AioFlo Pipe Hydraulics
http://katmarsoftware.com
"An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions"
RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
There is a button for that.
Good luck,
Latexman
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RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
Darcy - Weisbach
deltaP = Df * (Length/Diameter) * ((Density * Velocity^2)/2)
deltaP = 250 - 14.7 psi = 33,883.2 psf
Df=.0018 (Darcy Friction Factor for smooth bore rubber)
Length = 100 ft
Diameter = .375 in = .03125 ft
Density = 1.936 slug/ft^3
I solved for velocity and got V = 77.95 ft/s
then I used Q=VA to get 26.834 GPM.
RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
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Latexman
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RE: Flow Rate through Smooth Bore Hose
My spreadsheet confirms katmar's 6+ gpm number.
Good luck,
Latexman
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Good luck,
Latexman
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