PROBLEM SET 2

SITUATION 1(1-3): Water flows through a 100 mm

diameter pipe at a velocity of 3 m/s.

1. Determine the volume flow rate in lit/s.

6. Determine the mass flow rate.

2. Determine the weight flow rate.

SITUATION 3(7-8): The conduit shown has inside

diameters of 300 mm and 450 mm at section 1 and 2,
respectively. If waters flowing in the conduit at 5 m/s at
section 2,
3. Determine the mass flow rate.

7. Determine the velocity at section 1.

SITUATION 2(4-6): Benzene flows through a 150 mm

diameter pipe at a mean velocity of 4 m/s. s. Specific
gravity of benzene is 0.876.

4. Determine the v volume flow rate in gal/s.

8. Determine the volume flow rate.

5. Determine the weight flow rate.

 12. As shown in the figure, a 120 mm diameter plunger is
SITUATION 4(9-10): A gas flows through a square
push at 50 mm/s into a tank filled with water. How many N/s
conduit. At one point along the conduit sides are 100 of water being forced out a 30 mm diameter hole?
mm, the velocity is 8 m/s, and the mass density is 1.09
kg/m³. At a second point, the conduit sides are 250 mm,
and the velocity is 1.5 m/s.
9. Find the mass flow rate of the gas.

10. Find it's mass density at the second point

13. Linseed oil of specific gravity 0.932 is flowing through a

200 mm Ø pipe under a pressure of 100 KPa. If the total
energy head relative to a datum plane 2 m below the center
of the pipe is 20 m, determine the flow of oil.

11. What minimum diameter of pipe is necessary to carry

0.25 kg/s of air with a maximum velocity of 3.5 m/s? The air is
at 30°C and under an absolute pressure of 230 kРа.

14. A turbine is rated at 500 KW when the flow an efficiency

of 80%, what head is acting on of water through it is 0.812
m³/s. Assuming the e turbine? turbine?
15. For the 100 mm diameter suction pipe leading to a pump
shown, the pressure at point A in the suction pipe is a vacuum
of 160 mm of mercury. If the discharge is 0.03 m³/s of oil
(s=0.90), ad the total find the total energy head at tpoint A
with respect to a datum at the pump.

SITUATION 5(17-18): Underground water is to be pumped by a

75 percent efficient 6-KW submerged pump to a pool whose
free surface is 35 m above the underground water level. The
diameter of the pipe is 7 cm on the in the intake side and 5
cm on the discharge side. Assuming the elevation difference
between the pump inlet and the outlet and the effect of the
kinetic energy correction factors to be negligible,

17. Determine the maximum flow rate of water.

18 Determine the pressure difference across the pump

16. For the venturi meter shown, the deflection of mercury in

the differential gage is 360 mm. Determine the flow of water
throug the meter if no energy is lost between A and B.
19. A fireboat is to fight fires at coastal areas by drawing SITUATION 6(21-22): For the 50 mm Ø siphon drawing oil
seawater with a density of 1030 kg/m³ through a 10-cm- (sp.gr. = 0.85) from the oil reservoir as shown in the figure.
diameter pipe at a rate of 0.04 m³/s and discharging it through The head loss from point 1 to point 2 is 1.60 m and from point
a hose nozzle with an exit diameter of 5 cm. The total
irreversible head loss of the system is 3 m, and the position of
the nozzle is 3 m above sea level. For a pump efficiency of 70
percent, determine the required shaft power input to the
pump and the velocity water discharge.

2 to point 3 is 2.50m

21. Find the discharge of oil from the siphon

20. Water flows through the turbine in the figure shown at

the rate of 0.225 m³/s and the pressure at A and B,
22. Find the pressure at point 2.
respectively, are 150 KPa and -30 KPa. Determine the power
delivered to the turbine by the water.

23. The pipe flow in the figure shown fills a cylindrical surge
tank. At time t0, the water depth in the tank is 30 cm.
Estimate the time required to fill the remainder of the tank.
 26. Water is flowing through a pipe having diameters 30 cm
and 15 cm at the bottom and upper end respectively. The
24. Three pipes steadily deliver water at 20°C to a large exit
intensity of pressure at the bottom end is 29.43 N/cm² and
pipe as shown in the figure. The velocity v2= 5 m/s, and the
the pressure at the upper end is 14.715 N/cm². Determine the
exit flow rate Q4=120 m³/h. Knowing that increasing Q3 by 20
difference in the datum head if the rate of flow through pipe
percent would increase Q4 by 10 percent, determine v₁.
is 50 lit/s

27. A pipe line carrying oil of specific gravity 0.8, changes in

diameter from 300 mm at a piston A to 500 mm diameter to a
piston B which is 5 m at a higher level. If the pressures at A
and B are 196.2 KPa and 149.1 KPa respectively, and the
discharge is 150 lit/s, determine the loss of head between
piston A and B.
25. A pump has a tapering pipe running full of water. The pipe
is placed vertically with the diameters at the base and top
being 1.2 m and 0.6 m respectively. The pressure at the upper
end is 240 mm of Hg vacuum, while the pressure at the lower
end is 15 KPa. Assume the head loss to be 20% of the
difference of velocity head. Calculate the discharge, the flow
is vertically upward and the difference of elevation is 3.9 m.
SITUATION 7(28-29): For the pump shown in the figure, the
total friction head loss is 6 m. If the pump delivers 40 kW of
power to the water,

31. A hydraulic turbine has 60 m of head available at a flow

rate of 1.50 m³/s, and its overall turbine-generator efficiency is
75 percent. Determine the electric power output of this
28. Determine the exit velocity of the water. turbine.

29. Determine the flow rate.

SITUATION 8(32-33): Water flows at a rate of 30 L/s through a
horizontal pipe whose diameter is constant at 3 cm. The
pressure drop across a valve in the pipe is measured to be 2.5
Kpa.

32. Determine the irreversible head loss of the valve.

30. The water level in a tank is 25 m above the ground. A hose

is connected to the bottom of the tank, and the nozzle at the
end of the hose is pointed straight up. The tank is at sea level,
and the v water surface is open to the atmosphere. In the
line leading from the tank to the nozzle is a pump, which 33. Determine the useful pumping power needed to
increases t the pressure of water. If the water jet rises to a overcome the resulting pressure drop.
height of 37 m from the ground, determine the minimum
pressure rise supplied by the pump to the water line.