Pressure drop through a reducing tee
Pressure drop through a reducing tee
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How would you calculate the pressure drop through a reducing tee (2" run with 1" branch)? I can calculate the pressure drop through a tee using Darcy Weisbach equation with an equivalent length for the tee, but I'm not sure how to treat a reducing tee. I suppose I could just calculate the pressure drop through a tee + the pressure drop through a reducer and model the pipe as such, but there must be a better way.
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RE: Pressure drop through a reducing tee
http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=173164
At the end of the day, one is making an estimate of the head loss and the best that you can do is a reasonable estimate.
This site has some smaller radius tees:
https://neutrium.net/fluid_flow/pressure-loss-from...
http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/en/organisation/departmen...
RE: Pressure drop through a reducing tee
Dejan IVANOVIC
Process Engineer, MSChE