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Energy Dissipator

Energy Dissipator

Energy Dissipator

(OP)
Anybody have an example design of a baffled energy dissipator or point me in the right direction to the equation for one? A municipality is requiring that an energy dissipator be constructed at the end of a detention pond outlet. The outlet is a "V-Notch" outlet.

RE: Energy Dissipator

Baffled outlets are covered in "Design of Small Canal Structures" by the US Bureau of Reclamation. I designed a half dozen baffled outlets back in the mid-1980s and this book (in hard-cover format) was my guide.

The book can now be downloaded in .pdf format from several sources. IIRC, I downloaded it from the USBR website about 10 years ago, but I can't find it on their site right now.

BTW, we call them "baffled outlets" because calling them "befuddled outlets" is considered politically incorrect. smile

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--Winston S. Churchill

RE: Energy Dissipator

USBR Type VI
Hydraulic Design of Stilling Basins and Energy Dissipators
Engineering Monograph No. 25

available via google

RE: Energy Dissipator

I've used CMU or concrete blocks embedded in concrete for an energy dissipator downstream of a weir.
As long as the velocity was fairly low I didn't do calculations, just added 3 to 5 staggered rows of blocks and spaced them so that they ended where the outlet slope leveled off.

RE: Energy Dissipator

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Thanks for all of the responses. I will be looking for the resources indicated in the responses.

RE: Energy Dissipator

I'd go with the HY-8 free computer software. Not nearly as fun as the design manuals it is intended to somewhat automate but much easier and quicker to use.

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