I am designing a custom vertical air eliminator for use with viscous liquids. Similar units that I have seen all contain a vertical baffle, but there is no consistency as to which nozzle - inlet or outlet - the baffle lies closest.
On one hand, it makes sense to exit from the larger chamber...
I have been catching grief for having threaded connections on bulk liquid tanks. The knock on them is that they can easily be broken (with which I agree), and that the breach will be difficult to remediate if a break occurs (which I consider less valid).
In my mind, the breakage risk is more a...
I have seen some equations and tables to determine minimum static head for vortex suppression, but I think that they apply specifically to water. I am working with more viscous fluids. Is there a method to evaluate the effect of viscosity?
A fluid is stored in a tank, and is fed to a particular process through a few hundred feet of pipe using a PD pump. A v-port ball valve at the process controls incoming flow, and the inlet pressure at the ball valve is limited by a back pressure regulator at the storage tank. The set point of...
I plan to use a centrifugal pump to mix the contents of a storage tank by recycling 590 gpm. I am also considering using this same pump to deliver 40 gpm to a process. To enable this, I would bypass 560 gpm back into the tank. This approach would save a pump purchase, some piping, and an...
I would appreciate help in estimating the time required for the contents of an insulated liquid storage tank to cool from a know maximum temp. to a known minimum temp.
The ultimate goal is to determine the number of heating pads to install. I have easily determined the number of pads needed to...
A process to which I am pumping liquid has maximum allowable inlet pressure associated with it. I am being asked to limit the pressure of the incoming liquid using a back pressure at the tank from which I am pumping.
I would appreciate some help in mastering back pressure regulator terminology...
I have some pumps that are under-performing, and my local Viking guy has suggested that this is the result of vortexing inside the tank I am pumping out. We are seeing about one-half the expected flow. (I don't know how the pumps sound; they pumps are at a remote location, and I am getting...
I have been asked to investigate the use of pump suction heaters for viscosity control of lube oils. Initial web searches have turned up a couple possible sources for these heaters, but I have not located good general application information for them. Are there particular temperature and/or...
