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calculating cfm

calculating cfm

calculating cfm

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Does anyone have a formula for calculating the cfm of air using the line diameter and the air pressure.
Any help would be appreciated.
Joe

RE: calculating cfm

Hey Joe
thats a sticky question.
Could take a while to explain properly.

Problem is that its not the pressure that moves the air.
Are you in a postition to explain what you are trying to do in a little more detail?

Would make the answers a lot more useful to you.

Cheers

Steve

RE: calculating cfm

There is a way to calculate flow if you know pressure drop through a known obstruction. An orifice plate with a known Cv will allow you to calculate flow if you have a way to measure pressure up and downstream.

RE: calculating cfm

Air is a compressible fluid. Thus you need pressure (given) and temperature (missing) to determine its density.
Besides, CFM is a rate, meaning a time factor is included. If you have a bulk average linear velocity (also a rate) you'd be able to estimate the CFM.

Otherwise one should proceed by installing a Pitot tube, or any known obstruction measuring the friction drop, as ChrisConley suggests, which, in effect, is a step meant to estimate the bulk linear subsonic velocity of the fluid, or by the introduction of a tracer and its detection at two fixed points.

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