Second Partial Assignment
03.19.2021
Directions:
Solve the next problems and upload the procedure in your personal folder in a .pdf
document with the following name:
SecondpartialExercises_Lastnames.pdf
It is not necessary (but recommended) to include the original text of the exercises.
1. A submersible pump with a shaft power of 5 kW and an efficiency of 72 percent is used
to pump water from a lake to a pool through a constant diameter pipe. The free surface
of the pool is 25 m above the free surface of the lake. If the irreversible head loss in the
piping system is 4 m, determine the discharge rate of water and the pressure difference
across the pump.
2. Air enters a 7-m-long section of a rectangular duct of cross-section 15 cm × 20 cm made
of commercial steel at 1 atm and 35°C at an average velocity of 7 m/s. Disregarding the
entrance effects, determine the fan power needed to overcome the pressure losses in
this section of the duct.
3. Glycerin at 40°C with ρ = 1252 kg/m3 and μ = 0.27 kg/m · s is flowing through a 2-cm-
diameter, 25-m long pipe that discharges into the atmosphere at 100 kPa. The flow rate
through the pipe is 0.035 L/s.
(a) Determine the absolute pressure 25 m before the pipe exit.
(b) At what angle θ must the pipe be inclined downward from the horizontal for the
pressure in the entire pipe to be atmospheric pressure and the flow rate to be
maintained the same?
4. According to the following picture.
a) Identity all the minor losses (K1, K2, K3 and K4). Hint: square-edged entrance =
sharp-edged entrance.
b) Apply the general energy equation between point 1 and point 2 including all
losses.
c) Determine the discharge flow rate through the pipeline according for hL = 10 m.
d) Determine the head loss for a discharge flow rate of 60 l/s.
5. A tanker truck is to be filled with fuel oil with ρ= 920 kg/m3 and μ = 0.045 kg/m · s from
an underground reservoir using a 20-m-long, 5-cm-diameter plastic hose with a slightly
rounded entrance and two 90° smooth bends. The elevation difference between the oil
level in the reservoir and the top of the tanker where the hose is discharged is 5 m. The
capacity of the tanker is 18 m3 and the filling time is 30 min. Taking the kinetic energy
correction factor at hose discharge to be 1.05 and assuming an overall pump efficiency
of 82 percent, determine the required power input to the pump.
6. Water at 20°C is to be pumped from a reservoir (zA = 5 m) to another reservoir at a
higher elevation (zB = 13 m) through two 36-m-long pipes connected in parallel, as
shown in the figure. The pipes are made of commercial steel, and the diameters of the
two pipes are 4 and 8 cm. Water is to be pumped by a 70 percent efficient motor–pump
combination that draws 8 kW of electric power during operation. The minor losses and
the head loss in pipes that connect the parallel pipes to the two reservoirs are
considered to be negligible. Determine the total flow rate between the reservoirs and
the flow rate through each of the parallel pipes.
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L2 = 36 cm
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