It is a high pressure wash system for the masks used on automotive lenses. The masks are nickle electroforms that cover either painted, clear or metatllized parts of the lens from the next process on the production line. Periodically these masks must be remove and cleaned. This is where the mask...
Thanks for the guidance. I definitely need to do some brushing up on my fluid dynamics. After going through some calculations and looking through some charts. It appears that 2" schedule 40 piping will work best for the headers in this situation.
Thanks again.
Attached is a rough visual of what it is going to be.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=e40fa0b1-9435-47a3-9686-b3c583e5f777&file=Header_Concept.pdf
I am in charge of a project where we are upgrading a wash system for the automotive industry. We are using a Goulds 92SV pump. Specs for the pump as are follows;
Flow at Design: 390 USGPM
Head at Design: 519 FT.
The basic premise of this is that water is pumped to 3 headers measuring 48" in...