Assuming an incompressible fluid and an inelastic piping


Gasoline is supplied by gravity without pumping from a storage tank through a 800-m-long 50-mmdiameter nearly horizontal pipe into a tanker truck. There is a quick-acting valve at the end of the pipe. The difference in elevations of gasoline between the reservoir and the truck tank is 8 m. Initially, the valve is partially closed so that K = 275. Then the operator decides to increase the discharge by opening the valve quickly to the position where K = 5. Assuming an incompressible fluid and an inelastic piping system, determine the new steady-state discharge and the time it takes to reach 95% of that value. Assume that f = 0.015.

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Mechanical Engineering: Assuming an incompressible fluid and an inelastic piping
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