Piping Pressure Drop Functions by Stephen Hall, PE

PIPESIZE, a comprehensive pipe sizing spreadsheet template is available from http://www.chemengsoftware.com/pszintro.htm PIPESIZE includes pre-formatted datasheets, extensive tables of piping and material properties, and other great features.

This template contains Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) functions to facilitate the building of pressure drop templates. Input Data Required Pipe Data Inside Diameter of Pipe Surface Roughness Equivalent Length Fluid Data Physical State Inlet Pressure Flow Rate Specific Gravity Viscosity Density Mass Flow Rate Calculations Reynolds Number Friction Factor Pressure Drop

units inches feet feet

value 2.067 0.0008 100

psia gal/min. cP lb/cu.ft. lb/hr

0 55 50 1.004 1.431 62.6496 25126.84

0=liquid, 2=gas

compared to water note: calculated from SG note: calculated from Flow Rate and Density

Function Reynolds_No( Flow, Specific_Gravity, Viscosity, PipeID) 53586.91 (dimensionless) Function Friction(Surface_Roughness, Reynolds_No, PipeID) 0.031816 (dimensionless) Function Delta_P(phys_state, Mass_Flow_Rate, Density, Upstream_Pressure, Friction, PipeID, Eq 2.852721 (pounds/sq.in.)

In the following examples, data input cells are in RED, calculated cells are in BLACK Example 1: Line list with calculations This example is for liquids only It calculates viscosity and specific gravity assuming water at flowing temperature Since liquid is incompressible, value for pressure (1000) is arbitrary (not used in calculation) All lines have roughness = 0.0008 ft Fluid Properties Line No. ID, in. Name Flow, gpm Temp, C Visc, cP SG 1 1.61 Water 25 10 1.283 1.002 2 2.067 Water 40 25 0.924 0.996 3 3.26 Water 50 40 0.687 0.990 4 2.067 Water 35 20 1.027 0.998 5 6.357 Water 350 18 1.073 0.999 6 8.329 Water 800 22 0.984 0.997

Example 2: Line list with calculations This example is for gases only Ideal properties are assumed Fluid Properties Temp Pressure deg C psia 10 115 25 85 150 165 20 65 160 30 22 1

Line No. 1 2 3 4 5 6

ID, in. 1.61 2.067 6.357 2.067 6.357 8.329

Name Air Nitrogen Steam Air Steam Air

MW 29 28 18 29 18 29

Flow lb/h 500 800 15000 400 5000 500

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_Pressure, Friction, PipeID, EquivL)

(not used in calculation) Delta P psi/100 ft 2.69 1.79 0.25 1.39 0.37 0.46

Density 62.6 62.2 61.8 62.3 62.3 62.2

Rey No. 38,299 65,851 69,775 51,952 161,906 307,290

Friction 0.0346 0.0315 0.0282 0.0319 0.0232 0.0213

Density lb/ft3 0.610 0.413 0.363 0.333 0.065 0.005

Flow Viscosity gpm cP 102.25 0.020 241.40 0.020 5,148.43 0.020 149.84 0.020 9,661.92 0.020 12,257.26 0.020

SG 0.010 0.007 0.006 0.005 0.001 0.000

Rey No. 97,952 122,073 744,235 61,037 248,078 18,934

Friction 0.0332 0.0307 0.0222 0.0316 0.0228 0.0288

Delta P psi/100 ft 0.42 0.42 0.44 0.14 0.29 0.01